Family-owned cigar brand Southern Draw Cigars has created an offshoot to its Jacob’s Ladder line called The Ascension in honor of the 21st birthday of Ethan Jacob Holt, the son of brand owners Robert and Sharon, who recently joined the company with his parents full-time.

南抽雪茄公司是一家家族企业，创始人是罗伯特、莎伦夫妇。他们的儿子伊桑·雅各布·霍尔特即将21岁，最近全职加入公司和父母一起工作。为了庆祝孩子的生日，罗伯特夫妇在以往发行的雅各布梯子产品线的基础上创建了一个分支产品线，名为“耶稣升天”。

For The Ascension, the Holts returned to a prototype blend of Jacob’s Ladder which uses a San Andrés wrapper and Nicaragua Habano 2000 binder instead of the Pennsylvania broadleaf wrapper and the undisclosed binder tobacco of the regular release. The fillers for both are all-Nicaraguan. The Ascension comes in one size, a box-pressed Belicoso Fino that's 5 1/2 inches long by 52 ring gauge with a typical open foot. (The regular has an uncut foot and is not pressed.)

对于这个分支产品线，霍尔特一家对烟叶混合做了适当调整。雅各布的梯子系列用的茄衣是宾夕法尼亚州种植的阔叶烟叶，茄套烟叶没有披露用的是什么品种。而这次“耶稣升天”系列用的茄衣是圣安德烈斯烟叶，茄套是尼加拉瓜种植的哈瓦那2000烟叶。两个产品线的茄芯都是尼加拉瓜烟叶。“耶稣升天”系列目前只有一个尺寸，一款52环径、5.5英寸的盒压比力高，并且茄脚是典型的开放式茄脚，也就是说茄脚部分没有经过刀片的裁剪和切割。

According to the company, The Ascension cigars were rolled in September of 2016 by A.J. Fernandez in Nicaragua, and have been aging ever since. Billed as being full bodied, they have a suggested retail price of $11.79 each and come in paper-wrapped 10-packs.

根据公司披露，这批雪茄是在2016年9月份由尼加拉瓜的 A.J. 费尔南德斯家族代工生产的，完工后就一直在发酵保存中。官方定义这款雪茄是浓郁口味，单支零售价是11.79美元，纸盒包装，每盒10支。

While Ascension is a tribute to the owners’ son, Jacob’s Ladder is a biblical allusion to Jacob from the Book of Genesis, which is also reflected in the artwork for the new cigar.

虽然耶稣升天产品线是对伊桑·雅各布·霍尔特生日的贺礼，但是基于雅各布的梯子表达的是《创世纪》中关于雅各布的圣经故事经典，这些也都表现在了新系列产品的包装上。

The Ascension will first be released on a limited basis exclusively through Pennsylvania retailer Famous Smoke Shop on Thursday at only 10,000 cigars followed by a general release in January with a total of 100,000 cigars.

耶稣升天系列将在这周四通过宾夕法尼亚州零售商名烟商店限量发行，仅售1万支。明年1月份将全面发售，预计销售10万支。