Ashton Aged Maduro

Ashton Aged Maduro is a limited edition but regular production cigar by Ashton Cigars. What does this mean? Ashton Aged Maduro is a dark, sweet and savory, medium to full-bodied offering that debuted in 2012. The dark wrapper used is a leavened Connecticut Broadleaf priming. This purely natural fermentation process takes a long time. Which means that even though Ashton Aged Maduro is a regular production cigar, any time there is no ready wrapper production is halted until the wrapper is fully fermented. This is why it’s referred to as a “limited edition” cigar. 

Ashton Aged Maduro: The Blend

According to the official website, Ashton Cigars is “Obsessed with aging” while the Fuentes’ motto is “Never rush the hands of time”. Inside every Ashton Aged Maduro are the best of Ashton’s Dominican pickings as filler and binder. Atop of these is that legendary inky, oily, slightly sweet Connecticut Shade grown wrapper.

Dominant notes include rich leather, dark chocolate, cedar, sweet spice, toasted nuts, cocoa powder, nougat, earth, caramel, and hearty oak. Ashton Aged Maduro is deeply dimensional. It’s rolled by a select few aristocratic torcedores at Chateau de la Fuente in the Dominican Republic.

Ashton Aged Maduro comes in eight vitolas including:

• Ashton Aged Maduro No. 10 (50 x 5)  Ashton Aged Maduro No. 20 (44 x 5.50)  Ashton Aged Maduro No. 30 (44 x 6.75)

• Ashton Aged Maduro No. 40 (50 x 6)  Ashton Aged Maduro No. 50 (48 x 7)  Ashton Aged Maduro No. 56 (56 x 6)

• Ashton Aged Maduro No. 60 (52 x 7.50)  Ashton Aged Maduro Pyramid (52 x 6). 

About Ashton Cigars

Ashton Cigars is the brainchild of Robert Levin founded in 1985. Robert Levin is the second generation owner of Holt’s Cigar Company. After inheriting the cigar retail and catalogue business from his father, Albert Levin, Robert Levin did what came naturally to him and grew the company. Afterwards, Robert Levin decided to delve into the cigar making industry. His motivation was to create a cigar that he would enjoy smoking. The first Ashton cigar was blended in ‘83/’84 and released in 1985. It was made in Tabacos Dominicanos by Henke Kelner way before he began the Davidoffs.

Later, thanks to a long term friendship with the Fuente Family, Robert Levin shifted the production of Ashton cigars to the Fuente factory in the Dominican Republic. After being in the market for over 35 years, there have been less than 10 Ashton cigar lines released. This is because the makers of Ashton Cigars are truly obsessed with aging and are never in a rush. As a result, every Ashton cigar line is heavily awarded due to the quality and consistency of the blend.

Aside from Ashton Aged Maduro, there are other wildly popular cigars under the Ashton brand including Ashton Classic, Ashton VSG, Ashton Cabinet, and Ashton Esquire just to mention a few.