Eladio Diaz Releasing La Diana
Dominican cigarmaker Eladio Diaz will be releasing his second regular-production cigar line next month called La Diana, and the brand is a tribute to his first cigar mentor.
Diaz is well known throughout the industry and spent most of his career working for Davidoff of Geneva at the Swiss company’s factory in the Dominican Republic. When he left Davidoff in 2021, he opened a factory of his own and started slowly, making contract brands and Before & After, came out last year.
If all goes according to plan, La Diana will be shipping to retailers on the first week of July. La Diana was the name of the small factory in the Dominican Republic where Diaz got his start. It was owned by Francisco Biloria Vencosme, who was also known as “Panchito.” Diaz started working under his tutelage when he was only seven, and remained there for eight years.
The sentimental cigar brand consists of an Ecuador Habano 2000 wrapper, Mexican San Andrés binder and filler blend that’s predominantly Northern Dominican: Corojo, Criollo ’98 and Negrito. Some Peruvian Pelo de Oro leaf completes the filler.
Eladio Diaz La Diana is intended to be a full-bodied cigar—one of the strongest that Diaz has ever made—and will be available in three sizes: Brevas, a short corona measuring 4 1/2 inches long by 46 ring gauge ($7.50); Biloria, at 5 by 52 ($11) and Vencosme, a 6-by-54 Toro ($12.50). All the sizes come in 20-count boxes and are made at Diaz’s Tabacalera Diaz Cabrera (TDC) in the Dominican Republic. The cigars are distributed by Arango Cigar Co.
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