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Macanudo Gold Label Gets A Perfecto

May 9, 2024 | By Thomas Pappalardo
Macanudo Gold Label Gets A Perfecto
Photos/General Cigar Co.

A limited-edition cigar from the mild Macanudo Gold Label series is coming to market, and this year’s shape is a double-tapered perfecto called Golden Fig. It comes in 20-count boxes and has a suggested retail price of $11.39 each.

The brand gets its name for the color of its primings, which receive less direct sunlight exposure resulting in lighter, thinner leaves with a milder flavor than those that come from a higher part of the plant. Also, the tobacco is grown under mesh tents which simulate shade. This filters the sun’s rays making for leaves that are smoother in appearance. 

Underneath is a Piloto Cubano and more Mexican tobacco. 

The Golden Fig follows last year’s limited-edition release, the Gran Pyramid in 2022.

Macanudo Gold

The Macanudo Gold Label line was introduced in 2002 as a milder alternative to the Macanudo brand’s already mild core Café line. Produced in the Dominican Republic at the General Cigar Dominicana factory, Macanudo Gold is offered in the following regular-production sizes: 

  • Hampton Court Tubo, 5 1/2 by 42 ($12.29)
  • Lord Nelson, 7 by 49 ($12.79)
  • Tudor, 6 by 52 ($12.49)
  • Duke of York, 5 1/4 by 54 ($11.89)
  • Shakespeare, 6 1/2 by 45 ($11.69)
  • Crystal, 5 1/2 by 50 ($12.79)
  • Ascot, 4 1/5 by 32 ($25.19 per 10-count tin)

Exclusively produced for 2024, shipments of the Golden Fig began earlier this week and will continue until July 31 or when the supply has been depleted.

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