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Tom,

Thanks and of course I'll tell you a bit more about the brand...

The EXILE brand was our first and most dear to my heart. The Nicaraguan blend is a collaborative effort between myself, my brother Michael and Sr. Omar Ortez and is produced in small, tightly controlled batches. It's available Ecuadorian sun grown wrapper with complex flavors of spice and pepper on the palate...or a U.S. Connecticut broadleaf maduro with a long, creamy, coffee-bean taste signature. We're now planning to repackage the brand to reveal more of the cigar (currently it's wrapped entirely in a reproduction of the front page of the New York Daily Mirror the day the embargo was first announced).

And to also let you know, 'EXILE WIRED' will be hitting tobacconists' shelves during the next week. The release of this new EXILE brand extension is long overdue, but we wanted to get it PERFECT - and it is! It's priced in the $4-$5 price category and also features a new strain of Havana seed Criollo wrapper not smoked in the U.S. before. Coupled with a U.S. broadleaf binder and a fastidious blend of Nicaraguan, Honduran and Dominican longfiller tobaccos, it's a medium-full, sweet-spicy smoking experience that is going to cause a stir for 2009.

Hope that helps, Tom. Thanks for asking!

Best,
Al