Punch 8-9-8 Regional Asia Pacific Cigar

For its 2018 Edición Regional, Pacific Cigar Co.—the distributor for almost of all Asia—chose a lonsdale in the Punch brand. Called the Punch 8-9-8, the cigar measures 6 7/10 (170mm) x 43, a vitola named Dalias. It is the same size as the well-known Partagás 8-9-8 and the Cohiba Siglo V, as well as various other cigars branded 8-9-8 over the years. In what has become an increasingly popular thing to do, the cigars were limited to a number of boxes that use the number eight—a lucky number in Chinese culture—specifically 8,888 boxes of 10.