Padrón Ruby Red Exclusive Edition Heading to Two Guys Next Month

This year marks Two Guys Smoke Shop’s 40th anniversary and the New Hampshire-based retailer is celebrating with a pair of exclusive releases from Padrón.

The Padrón Ruby Red Exclusive Edition is a 5 3/4 x 56 vitola made with a blend of undisclosed tobaccos. As with most Padrón releases, it will be offered in both Natural and Maduro wrappers. However, unlike the majority of Padrón cigars, both versions of the Ruby Red Exclusive Edition will be round instead of box-pressed.

Both blends will be packaged in individually-numbered boxes that were designed by Nelson Alfonso, the owner of the Selected Tobacco S.A. brand, who has worked on designs for some of Habanos S.A.’s most sought-after cigars, including the Cohiba BHK Behike, various Gran Reserva and other special packaging items like tubos and jars.

Only 200 individually numbered boxes, which the retailer describes as humidors, have been produced: 150 Padrón Ruby Red Maduro boxes and 50 Padrón Ruby Red Natural boxes. Each box’s MSRP is $1,600, which includes 40 cigars priced at $40 each.

The cigar’s name refers to the traditional gemstone gift for 40-year anniversaries, and each box is equipped with a ruby-inspired button encrusted on the front that releases the reverse magnetized lid when pressed.

“This is not just a cigar—it’s history in a box,” said David Garofalo, owner of Two Guys Smoke Shop, in a press release. “Working with Jorge Padrón on this project has been an absolute honor. We wanted something meaningful, rare, and worthy of the moment—and the Ruby Red delivers on all fronts.”

Both versions of the Padrón Ruby Red Exclusive Edition are scheduled to be released on Aug. 1 at all three Two Guys Smoke Shop locations and on the retailer’s website.

Brooks Whittington

I have worn many hats in my life up to this point: I started out as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, then transitioned to photographing weddings—both internationally and in the U.S.—for more than a decade. After realizing that there was a need for a cigar website containing better photographs and more in-depth information about each release, I founded my first cigar blog, SmokingStogie, in 2008. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars, and it was one of the predecessors to halfwheel, which I co-founded.