PDR雪茄的品牌所有人安倍·弗洛雷斯（Abe Flores）一直在关注和评估他的雪茄产品线。最近，他将目光投向了康涅狄格河谷珍藏产品线（ Connecticut Valley Reserve ），决定将这个系列的烟叶混合做出调整，让口味变得更劲道一些。

康涅狄格河谷珍藏最初是2015年发布，当时归属于PDR旗下的弗洛雷斯和罗德里格斯品牌（Flores y Rodriguez），现在属于安倍弗洛雷斯（A. Flores）品牌下的产品线。每年以限量版的形式发售两次。

今年的限量版有两个版本，茄衣不一样。一款是Azul。西班牙语是“蓝色”，茄衣用的是浅色的康涅狄格阔叶烟叶。弗洛雷斯将这种茄衣颜色归类为克拉罗（claro）。还有一款是 Roja，西班牙语是“红色”，茄衣用的是颜色较浅的康涅狄格阔叶烟叶，归类为马杜罗（maduro）。这两款的茄套都是尼加拉瓜烟叶，茄芯都是尼加拉瓜、多米尼加的混合烟叶。

在烟叶品种方面，升级后的混合物基本一致。主要区别是种植烟草的农场和比例。弗洛雷斯在茄芯里加入了更多的多米尼加科罗霍烟叶，还有一些雷耶斯家族种植的利格罗（ligero）烟叶，减少了一些尼加拉瓜烟叶。

尺寸也做了一些调整。以前的产品线有金字塔（Figurado）和比力高（Belicoso）。如今变成了丘吉尔（Churchil）、长矛（ Lancero）。丘吉尔是50环径，7英寸。长矛是42环径，7英寸。产品线里还有大公牛（Gran Toro）、罗布图（Robusto）。单支的建议零售价从20美元到26美元不等。每盒都是10支包装。

在为中国市场专供的产品里，还保留了比力高的型号。每盒15支装。

和其他产品线一样，康涅狄格河谷珍藏也是在多米尼加的PDR雪茄厂生产的。预计4月下旬到5月初向零售商发货。

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PDR Cigars brand owner Abe Flores has been looking over his portfolio and reassessing some of his cigar lines. Recently, he set his sights on the Connecticut Valley Reserve lines and decided to update the packaging and punch up the blends for a little more power. 

Originally released in 2015, the Connecticut Valley Reserve lines were sold under PDR’s Flores y Rodriguez series but are now part of the A. Flores brand, and will be produced in limited runs to be released only twice per year. 

The A. Flores Connecticut Valley Reserve comes in two versions: Azul and Roja. Azul (“blue” in Spanish) has a lighter Connecticut broadleaf wrapper that Flores categorizes as “claro,” while the Roja line (“red” in Spanish) has a darker Connecticut broadleaf wrapper classified as “maduro.” Both lines are made with Nicaraguan binders and a filler blend of Nicaraguan and Dominican tobacco. 

In terms of tobacco varietals, the updated blends are largely the same. The main difference is in the farms where the tobaccos are grown, and the proportions. Flores has added more Dominican Corojo filler (including some ligero grown by Leo Reyes) and decreased the amount of Nicaraguan filler.

The size chart has been changed a bit as well. Where the lines previously had a Figurado and Belicoso, they’ve been replaced with a Churchill (7 inches by 50 ring gauge) and Lancero (7 by 42). The Gran Toro and Robusto are still part of the line. Suggested retail prices range between $20 and $26 and all come in boxes of 10.

The Belicosos, however, are not completely gone. They’re now made exclusively for the Chinese market and come in boxes of 15.

Like all other PDR cigars, Connecticut Valley Reserve is made in the Dominican Republic at the PDR Cigars factory. Retailers can expect first shipments of the new smokes sometime between late April and early May.