Great vintage years are as rare for fine cigars as they are for fine wines. Only once or twice a decade, a perfect balance of sunshine and rainfall causes Macanudo's exclusive Connecticut Shade seeds to yield limited quantities of extraordinary wrapper leaves that exceed the high standards for other Macanudo cigars. And after the leaves have been cured and aged, only a few bales of them are finally deemed to be worthy of the Vintage Cabinet Selection designation.
Since the 1970s, Macanudo Connecticut Shade vintage-quality harvests have occurred only in 1979, 1984, 1988, 1993 and 1997. The Vintage Cabinet Selections that display those years have been released in different quantities approximately three years after their tobaccos were harvested.
A Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection cigar is the ultimate in mellowness and smoothness in two distinct ways. First, the wrapper is the rarest of all Connecticut Shade tobacco leaves. Second, all of the tobaccos used in crafting these extraordinary cigars are aged longer than any others. To set these cigars apart in yet another way, each of them displays two bands – one to identify the cigar as Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection and the other to designate the year of the Vintage harvest. As one would expect, the cigars grow in value as they age and become more and more scarce. Since a 1979 Macanudo Vintage cigar is older and more rare than a 1997, for example, the differences in their ages are reflected in their separate prices.
A Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection cigar delivers the ultimate Macanudo experience because it is that much mellower and that much smoother than even a Macanudo Café cigar can be.

Wrapper: Connecticut Shade Vintage Selection 1997
Filler: Dominican (Piloto Cubano), Mexican
Binder: Mexico San Andrean
Country of Manufacture: Dominican Republic
Factory: General Cigar Dominicana

• I - 7.50x49
• II - 6.56x43
• III - 5.56x43
• V - 5.50x49
• VIII - 5.50x50 (crystal tube)
• Demi - 4.19x36