Today we are enjoying the Mortal Coil. It is a new limited edition cigar from CAO. It is arriving at retailers beginning in Feb of 2021. The Arcana Mortal Coil is a 6 1/8 x 50 toro that is highlighted by Dominican andullo tobacco, a unique way of processing tobacco. Most tobacco used for cigars is harvested and placed in pilones—basically extremely large piles of tobacco that are rotated in and out as the leaves dry—but andullo tobacco is picked and then wrapped into large pods known as yaguasafter being harvested. These pods are then rooted into the ground while the tobacco cures.
For this release, General Cigar Co. is using four filler tobaccos: the aforementioned Dominican andullo tobacco, Dominican piloto cubano, Honduran tobacco from the Jamastran Valley and Nicaraguan tobacco from Estelí. It’s wrapped in a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over a shade-grown Connecticut binder.
Pricing is set at $12 a stick and it is limited to 5,000 boxes of 20 cigars.

The Mortal Coil is being paired with Six & Twenty 5 Grain Bourbon. It’s is named for the 5 grains comprising the grain bill: corn (all bourbon must comprise at least 50% corn grain), rye, wheat (both of these common grain blends in bourbon), barley (slightly less common), and rice (almost unheard of). Six & Twenty Distillery was founded in 2014 by Farmer Redmond and David Raad in Powdersville, South Carolina. It is named for a pre-Revolution story about an escaped colonial maiden naming off geographic points on her way to warn the defending British troops of a native attack. The modern distillery is said to be located 26 miles from her point of capture... or, "twenty and six." . Then consider themselves a "grain to glass" distillery in that they control aspects of production from grinding the grain, to fermenting, to distilling, to aging, to bottling.