Does anybody here have any information if this blend will be produced again?
Apparently, Ted and I were writing at the same time. I'll go ahead and post what I was going to say since it adds some detail:
Yes, but we're not exactly sure when. Hopefully before terribly long.
We exhausted our supply of (crazy special) Italian Dark Fired that we used as the distinctive condimental component for this. We can get more from the same farm, but it's a process and just taking longer than we anticipated because a) it's not from a regular supplier, b) the only production product that uses it is Sansepolcro (the other one was Savinelli 140th, but that was a one-off, of which there is still some available in the market), which means we need to directly import a relatively small quantity (a little dark fired goes kind of a long way) directly from a small Italian company/farm.
While Sansepolcro is planned to happen in the future, it's so dependent on one hard-to-source varietal that requires a lot of work when it gets here that it's the sort of thing that we'll make a bunch of on an irregular basis rather than keep in regular production. As in, it's basically a limited release thing we'll do over and over as we can rather than something we can reasonably try to keep on shelves regularly.
I'm so glad to hear that you like it. It's a blend that's near and dear to us. I met the folks that grow and cure it (and make Italian-style cigars) a few years ago through a mutual friend and I was so excited about it that I brought back samples to Jeremy to create something with. We think it's one of the finest things we've ever done and one of the few blends that we've built around particular leaf we've run across.
As an addendum to Ted's post:
Ted mentioned samples hitting his desk this morning. Since we last bought DFK from them in early 2016, we need to make sure that one of the handful of grades and crops that they have available now matches what we used for the first couple of runs of Sansepolcro. As I said, tiny batches of distinctive condimental leaf directly imported from a small farm is a complicated, lengthy process.
Sykes
