埃内斯托·佩雷斯·卡里略（Ernesto Perez-Carrillo）生产的复兴（Encore）因多方面的出色表现而脱颖而出，以96分的盲评成绩被《雪茄爱好者》杂志评为2018年的年度第一名。这个产品线发布以来并没有罗布图尺寸。

2018年春季Encore产品线发布，这个产品线没有罗布图尺寸是非常罕见的。要知道，罗布图是美国雪茄零售店里最受欢迎的尺寸，几乎每个品牌都有。

本周，E.P.C雪茄公司发布了一款名为El Futuro（未来）的罗布图尺寸新品，50环径粗，5英寸长。单支售价11.9美元，每盒10支包装，本次限量生产1000盒。E.P.C雪茄公司今年夏季将增产这个尺寸，在拉斯维加斯举办的PCA贸易展上接受订单。这款罗布图将成为Encore产品线的常规尺寸。

这是Encore产品线的第五个尺寸。前四个尺寸的商品名分别是 Celestial（天道）、El Primero（第一）、 Valientes（勇敢）、Majestic（雄伟），Celestial是公牛尺寸，El Primero是丘吉尔尺寸，Valientes是鱼雷尺寸，Majestic的尺寸归为odd（奇怪），这个尺寸没有固定的参数来描述。

El Futuro的尺寸和卡里略生产的另外一款年度雪茄一样，是Pledge（誓约）产品线里的Prequel（前传）。

这个新款罗布图也是在多米尼加卷制，采用全尼加拉瓜烟叶制成。口味强度是中等到浓郁。在以往的盲评里，我们普遍发现Encore系列的浓度不如Pledge系列。在年度回顾文章里，我们将Pledge Prequel描述为中等到浓郁，将Encore Majestic描述为中等浓度。

接下来的《雪茄内幕》将会对这款新品进行测评。

附参考文章：

Ernesto Perez-Carrillo’s Encore brand stands out in many ways for what it has, namely winning Cigar of the Year in 2018 and scoring 96 points. But it also stands out for what it’s missing—a robusto.

Encore, which hit the market for the first time in the spring of 2018, is an absolute rarity because it has been a cigar brand without a robusto size. Robustos are the most popular size in American cigar shops, and just about every brand has one. 

That’s changing this week, with the release of the E.P. Carrillo Encore El Futuro, a robusto measuring 5 inches long by 50 ring gauge. It’s set to retail for $11.90, but the release will be limited for now, with an initial shipment of 1,000 boxes, each containing 10 cigars. E.P. Carrillo will expand the distribution of the size come this summer, taking more orders for the new smoke at the PCA trade show in Las Vegas, and it will become a standard part of the Encore line. 

As the fifth size in the line, El Futuro joins the Celestial, which is a toro, the El Primero, a Churchill, the torpedo-shaped Valientes and the Majestic, a size that we categorize as “odd,” as it doesn’t quite fit our other size parameters.

This new smoke has the same dimensions of another Cigar of the Year made by E.P. Carrillo, the Pledge Prequel. 

Like all Encores, El Futuro is made in the Dominican Republic under the watchful eye of Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, an industry veteran with more than 50 years of experience. The cigar is crafted from an all-Nicaraguan blend, one that Carrillo calls medium-to-full in body. In blind tastings at Cigar Aficionado, we have generally found the Encore line to be a little less powerful than the Pledge line. In our Cigar of the Year writeups, we described the Pledge Prequel as medium-to-full, while rating the Encore Majestic in the medium-bodied range. 

You’ll see a rating in an upcoming Cigar Insider.