第1名 帕德龙1964周年系列鱼雷自然色（Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series Torpedo Natural）

除了卓越和与众不同外，CA杂志社在评选年度前25名时也很重视一致性（连贯性）。没有一家雪茄公司能做到像帕德龙雪茄公司那样。2004年我们开始举办评比时，帕德龙的产品就获得了年度最佳雪茄的称号。17年后，帕德龙的产品再次拿到第一名。这是帕德龙雪茄公司第四次拿到年度第一名。这家家族企业成为了纪录保持者。在历次评比中，帕德龙雪茄公司的产品与16次进入到年度前五名，只有一年没有进入到前五名。

帕德龙1964周年系列是在1994年发布的，是为了庆祝公司成立30周年。这个产品线是公司的创始人、古巴移民何塞·奥兰多·帕德龙（José Orlando Padrón）和他的儿子豪尔赫（Jorge）共同制作的。他们希望用陈年的特殊烟叶制作高端的雪茄。1994年以前，帕德龙的旗舰产品主要是棕色烟标。这是一款价格合理的好雪茄，直到今天也是如此。

30周年庆的产品线将公司整体产品提升到一个新的水平。经过测试，最终成品使用了尼加拉瓜种植的阳植法古巴种子烟叶，何塞想赋予雪茄标志性的盒压造型。他想做一款他过去在古巴时喜欢抽的雪茄。豪尔赫·帕德龙介绍说，并不是帕德龙公司发明了盒压造型，但是当时市场上确实非常少的盒压造型雪茄。

这次发布最终改变了高端雪茄行业的格局。1964周年系列取得了商业的极大成功，并激发了其他公司开始效仿生产盒压造型雪茄。今天，盒压雪茄和木压雪茄在市场上很常见。

从家族珍藏系列到1926系列，帕德龙品牌一直是《雪茄爱好者》杂志发布的年度25名榜单里的中流砥柱。这是1964周年系列首次当选年度雪茄。这款鱼雷把帕德龙公司想要表现和发挥的要点，都做到了。52环径粗，6英寸长。单支售价17.8美元。盲评得分97分。盒压造型非常吸引人，点燃初期有木头、坚果的味道，随后变得复杂。榛子的味道出奇的精确，融入到浓郁的可可豆味道里，如同巧克力制成的精美甜点一样融化在味蕾里。燃烧和抽吸都十分完美。唯一的缺点是很快就抽完了。

附参考原文：

Along with excellence and distinction, consistency has always been heavily weighed when we create our annual Top 25 rankings. And no cigar company has been as consistent as Padrón. It was the first manufacturer to be named Cigar of the Year for 2004 when we started publishing this awards list, and now, 17 years later, Padrón has produced the No. 1 cigar of 2021. This is the fourth time for Padrón to be named Cigar of the Year, making this family-owned business the record holder. Furthermore, Padrón has now occupied a place in the top five every year but one, for a total of 16 times.

The Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series was released in 1994 when the company celebrated 30 years in business. The cigar was made by company founder (and Cuban émigré) José Orlando Padrón and his son Jorge. The idea was to make a high-end cigar from exceptional tobaccos with more age. Before 1994, Padrón’s production was mostly made up of its flagship brown-label brand. It was a good cigar at a good price—and still is—but a creation for an anniversary as big as 30 years had to be taken to the next level. The final product was a cigar of sun-grown, Cuban-seed tobaccos from Nicaragua. It was José’s idea to give the cigars the signature box-pressing. He wanted a smoke that resembled the cigars he used to enjoy in Cuba. “Not that we invented the box-press,” said Jorge Padrón, “but at the time there weren’t any box-pressed cigars in the market.”

That presentation eventually changed the landscape of the premium industry. The 1964 Anniversary Series was an enormous commercial and critical success, inspiring other companies to follow suit and box-press their cigars as well. Today, box-pressed and trunk-pressed cigars are commonplace in the market.

From the Family Reserve to the Serie 1926, Padrón’s brands have been a mainstay on every Top 25 list this magazine has ever released, but this is the first time a cigar from the 1964 Anniversary Series has been named Cigar of the Year. The Torpedo serves as a fine example of everything the Padróns wanted to achieve. Box-pressed and attractive, it starts with a woody, nutty core that gradually becomes more complex. Notes of hazelnut are uncannily precise and segue into a rich, opulent smoke of cocoa bean that settles onto the palate like the fine confections of a chocolatier. The draw and burn are perfect and the cigar’s only flaw is that it ends.