Punch Rare Corojo Now In Regular Production
The Punch Rare Corojo, once a limited-edition smoke, is now a standard offering. For more than 20 years, General Cigar Co. has presented its Punch Rare Corojo line as a limited-edition, one-size, annual release. Now, the brand has gone into regular production and it comes in nine sizes.
Despite its name, the Punch Rare Corojo blend isn’t made with Corojo tobacco: instead it’s cloaked in an Ecuador Sumatra wrapper. Beneath it is a Connecticut broadleaf binder and a filler blend of tobacco from Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Over the decades, annual sizes have included everything from Salomones and perfectos to basic toros and torpedoes in glass tubes.
“For years, Punch fans have clamored for more Rare Corojo,” says Punch brand manager Scott Abney. “And we’re excited to deliver it to them as a regular-production line.”
The lineup consists of the following sizes:
- Champion: (perfecto), 4 1/2 by 60, $8.99
- El Doble: 6 by 60, $11.39
- Elite: 5 1/4 by 45, $6.49
- En Crystale: (glass tube) 5 1/2 by 54, $11.39
- Gusto: (aluminum tube) 5 by 52, $9.89
- Magnum: 5 1/4 by 54, $10.39
- Pita: 6 1/8 by 50, $9.29
- Rapido: 5 by 40, $5.19
- Rothschild: 4 1/2 by 50, $8.29
Some sizes come in 20-count boxes while others come in boxes of 25. The Rothschild is packaged in boxes of 50.
In addition to the regular-production line, which shipped yesterday, General has also launched a limited-edition Punch Rare Corojo for 2025—the Box Pressed El Gordo, which started shipping to retailers this week as well. The smoke is a grande format, measuring 6 inches by 60 ring gauge with a suggested retail price of $11.49. It comes in boxes of 20.
All Punch Rare Corojos are made in Honduras at the STG Danlí factory, a facility owned by General’s parent company Scandinavian Tobacco Group.
