A cigar box makes a decent souvenir, and Davidoff has worked out that a box with a city skyline on the lid makes a better one. The Davidoff City Edition arrives this month with two blends, one for New York and one for Las Vegas, each sold only in that city’s Davidoff flagship stores.
The New York blend is a gran robusto, 55 ring gauge by 5½ inches, or 2.2 by 14 centimeters. It pairs Dominican filler with an Ecuadorian binder and wrapper, and Davidoff rates the strength at 3.5 out of 5, with notes of coffee, wood and oak. The Las Vegas blend uses the same Dominican and Ecuadorian build, with one change in the filler.
Davidoff has tied cigars to its stores before. Its Boutique Selection links three blends to the Geneva, Hong Kong and New York Madison flagships. The Davidoff City Edition widens that idea from a single store to a whole city, and it aims at people passing through, collectors and gift buyers as much as the regulars.
I like the logic. The Boutique Selection reads as a cigar for the people who already live in the shop, and this reads as the one a visitor carries home. Davidoff’s recent Voyager’s Selection Black Band ties a blend to four growing regions. Here the tie is to a place on the map you can book a flight to.
The New York Davidoff City Edition
The Ecuadorian wrapper gives the New York blend a spicier, more aromatic profile than the brand’s classic style, which makes it a shade bolder than the mild reputation Davidoff carries. It is sold at the New York flagships, including 515 Madison Avenue, a store on 6th Avenue and 156 Broadway in Brooklyn.
Most of this lineup is about balance, and the Davidoff City Edition for New York looks built to prove that a medium-strength cigar can still have some bite. I would want to smoke it before giving a verdict, but the recipe on paper is sensible. Because the Davidoff City Edition is sold only in its own city, a collector who wants both boxes has to travel or know someone who will.
The Las Vegas Davidoff City Edition
The Las Vegas blend gets a wine cask aged Dominican filler, which adds character and aromatic depth. The notes run to fresh pepper and spice, and the finish is meant to be smooth and well balanced. Davidoff has not yet posted a size, a strength rating or a street address for this one.
Wine cask aging is the most interesting idea in either blend, mostly because the choice of wine changes everything. A port cask and a Bordeaux cask would give very different cigars, and I would like to know which one Davidoff used before I decide how pepper and spice fit with it.
The series begins with New York and Las Vegas, which implies more cities to come. Javier González, who leads global marketing and innovation at Oettinger Davidoff, says the series “belongs entirely to the cities that inspire it.”
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