Ozgener Maracana Toro (6.5×50)

Tim Ozgener built one of the most beloved Brazilian-wrapped cigars in cigar history when he ran CAO. The Brazilia was a landmark release, and when General Cigar absorbed CAO in 2010 and Ozgener stepped away from the business entirely, the Brazilia went with him. Now he is back with OZ Family Cigars and Crowned Heads, and the Maracana is his answer to the question everyone in Cigars Daily Nation has been asking for fifteen years. Named for the legendary Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, this is Ozgener’s modern reimagining of what a Brazilian Arapiraca cigar can be, built at My Father Cigars in Honduras, where the García family is working with Brazilian tobacco for the very first time.

The Arapiraca wrapper over a double binder of Honduran and Nicaraguan tobaccos gives this 6.5×50 Churchill a layered complexity that Brazilian leaf delivers unlike anything grown in Central America: natural sweetness, earth, dark spice, and a richness that builds across the full smoke. Press-formed construction, 21 to a box, $12.95 a stick. One of the most anticipated releases of PCA 2026, and it is shipping now.