During next month’s 2025 PCA Convention & Trade Show, Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. will release a new barber pole cigar and the first limited edition for one of the company’s most popular lines.
The Island Jim Barber Pole is a 6 x 52 vitola made with two different wrappers—a Connecticut wrapper and a corojo wrapper, both grown in Honduras—covering an undisclosed binder and filler blend. The barber pole name refers to the two visible wrapper leaves that are rolled together at an angle to produce a spiral pattern similar to a barber’s pole.
It will have an MSRP of $13 per cigar and will be offered in boxes of 21.
The Island Jim brand is named after “Island” Jim Robinson, owner of Leaf & Bean Strip in Pittsburgh. Robinson and Valladares worked to launch the Island Jim line of cigars, which is now part of the Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. portfolio.
The company will also be releasing the Leaf by Oscar Broadleaf Limited Edition 2025, a 6 x 52 vitola made with a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper that has been aged for three years, covering a binder and filler composed of Honduran tobacco. According to Alvaro Villatoro, the company’s sales manager, the new cigar marks both the first time the company has released a limited edition Leaf by Oscar cigar and the first cigar from the company utilizing a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper.
The Leaf by Oscar Broadleaf Limited Edition 2025 will have an MSRP of $18 and the production is limited to 1,500 individually numbered 20-count boxes.
Both the Island Jim Barber Pole and Leaf by Oscar Broadleaf Limited Edition 2025 are made at the company’s factory in Danlí, Honduras. Both cigars are scheduled to begin shipping on April 11. The 2025 PCA Convention & Trade Show happens April 12-14 in New Orleans.
Patrick Lagreid contributed to this story.
Source: Brooks Whittington
