Aquitaine
The archaeological heart of Europe, revealing the dawn of human art, culture, and symbolic thought.
The Aquitaine, which gets its name from the region of France where the original Cro-Magnon remains were discovered, features a heavy Ecuador Habano Ligero wrapper and a filler blend consisting of a variety of Nicaraguan Criollo 98 tobaccos from Estelí, Jalapa, Pueblo Nuevo and Peñuela, a native varietal from the Dominican Republic.
| Vitola | Description |
|---|---|
| Pestera Muierilor Petite Corona, 4 x 46 | A Romanian cave site where Cro-Magnon remains were dated to over 30,000 years ago. The brand's eastern frontier of Early Modern Human evidence. |
| Knuckle Dragger Petite Robusto, 4 x 52 | The caricature of the prehistoric human, addressed directly. The cigar's name is the correction. |
| Mandible Petite Gordo, 4½ x 60 | The lower jaw, one of the diagnostic bones used to distinguish Cro-Magnon morphology from earlier hominin species. |
| Mode 5 Short Perfecto, 5 x 50 | The blade-and-microblade technology that defined Cro-Magnon material culture. Sophisticated tools from a people we called primitive. |
| EMH Robusto Extra, 5 x 56 | Early Modern Human. The technical term that replaces the colloquial one and changes what the description names. |
| Anthropology Gran Corona, 5¾ x 46 | The discipline that documents what the Cro-Magnon were actually doing and corrects what was assumed. |
| Cranium Gran Toro, 6 x 54 | The skull. Cro-Magnon 1, the type specimen, was the cranium found in Les Eyzies in 1868. |
Limited Editions
| Vitola | Description |
|---|---|
| Mastodon Petite Gordo Prensado, 4½ x 60P | The Pleistocene megafauna the Cro-Magnon hunted. Gone now, except in the cave paintings. |
| EMH Sabre Tooth Robusto Extra Rayado, 5 x 56P | Smilodon, the sabre-toothed cat that shared the Cro-Magnon's landscape and competed with them for prey. |
| Breuil Panetela, 5½ x 37 | Henri Breuil, the French archaeologist who documented the Upper Paleolithic cave paintings of Lascaux and elsewhere. The man who showed us what they made. |
| Gran Perfecto Gran Perfecto, 5 5/8 x 60 | The figurado tapered at both ends, the most demanding shape in any roller's repertoire. The portfolio's recurring LE expression of each blend's outer limits. |
| Blockhead Gran Toro Prensado, 6 x 54P | Another caricature of primitive form. Named here, the way the brand names every misperception it intends to refute. |
| Venus Petite Salamone, 6½ x 56 | The Venus figurines: small carved female forms found across Upper Paleolithic Europe. Among the earliest known representations of the human body. |
| Atlatl Lancero, 7 x 38 | The spear-thrower. Cro-Magnon weapon technology that extended hunting range and provided the lethal advantage that took down megafauna. |
| Epoch Churchill, 7 x 48 | The geological time the Cro-Magnon lived through: the Upper Paleolithic, the late Pleistocene. The age in which our culture began. |
| Slobberknocker Gran Figurado, 7½ x 56 | The fight word, applied to a Cro-Magnon. A reminder that a heavy, solid, strong people would have been formidable in any contest. |