Forged Cigar Company is briefing retailers on Weller by Cohiba 2026, the sixth straight year the U.S. Cohiba brand has teamed up with Buffalo Trace’s Weller bourbon. The change that matters this time is the barrel. For 2026, the USA Broadleaf binder is aged in barrels that previously held Weller C.Y.P.B., and Cigar Coop reports this is the first edition in the series to use that expression.
Retailer listings that appeared earlier this month describe the same blend, size and white-and-gold packaging, so the details are lining up even if a formal public press release has been quiet.
This is the American Cohiba line from Forged Cigar Company and Scandinavian Tobacco Group, produced at General Cigar Dominicana—not the Cuban Habanos Cohiba.
A Familiar Blend, a New Barrel
Weller by Cohiba 2026 is a 6 x 50 Toro, the same vitola the series has used in recent years. The wrapper is Ecuadorian Sumatra, the binder is USA Broadleaf aged in Weller C.Y.P.B. barrels, and the filler brings together tobacco from Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Production is at General Cigar Dominicana.
Cigar Coop and multiple retailer product pages agree on those components. Official Cohiba materials describe the collaboration in broader terms: a new blend with each edition, and Cohiba tobacco aged in Weller bourbon barrels, with Weller branding used under license.
An Ecuadorian wrapper is worth a second look this fall. We recently walked through what Ecuador’s wrapper shortage means for the cigars that actually reach smokers. This release does not come with any public note that its Sumatra leaf is affected, but it is a reminder of how much a wrapper origin can matter when supply tightens.
What C.Y.P.B. Actually Is
C.Y.P.B. stands for Craft Your Perfect Bourbon. According to Buffalo Trace, the expression came out of a consumer survey. It is a 95-proof (47.5% ABV) wheated bourbon, aged on the highest warehouse floors and bottled at what the distillery calls an approachable strength.
That is useful context for the cigar, and it is also the limit of what we can responsibly say. Barrel-aging a binder is not the same thing as flavoring a finished cigar, and it is not a tasting note. The leaf spends time in barrels that once held the whiskey. How much of that environment shows up in the smoke depends on the tobacco, the barrels, and how long the leaf rested—details Forged has not published in the coverage we reviewed. We have not smoked the 2026 edition, so we will not invent a flavor profile for it.
If you like this side of the hobby, we have been tracking it all season in our look at the aged-tobacco releases defining fall 2026, and in The Art of Aging Cigars.
How the Series Has Changed, Year by Year
Cigar Coop laid out the collection this way, and it matches earlier trade coverage of the past editions:
- 2021: Blended to pair with Weller 12 Year bourbon
- 2022: Binder aged in Weller 12 Year barrels
- 2023: Binder aged in Weller 12 Year barrels
- 2024: Binder aged in Weller Full Proof barrels
- 2025: Binder aged in Weller Antique 107 barrels
- 2026: Binder aged in Weller C.Y.P.B. barrels
Notice the distinction in year one. The 2021 cigar was positioned as a pairing with Weller 12 Year. Starting in 2022, the story shifts to aging the binder in used Weller barrels, with a different expression each of the last three years. For collectors who kept a few of each, 2026 is another chance to compare one variable: the barrel, not a wholesale change in wrapper, binder type, filler countries or size.
Cohiba’s own Weller partnership page frames it as an ongoing collaboration with a new blend in each edition. That tracks with what the trade press has reported since the series began.
Packaging, Price and Timing
Each cigar is packaged in an individual aluminum tube, in a white-and-gold presentation Cigar Coop says is styled after Weller C.Y.P.B. packaging. The tubes come in 10-count boxes.
On price, we are sticking to what the sources actually say. Cigar Coop reports that numerous retailers are pricing the cigar at $34.99 each. Luxury Cigar Club lists a 10-count box at $349.99 and a five-pack at $174.95, and other shops have posted the same $34.99 single price. We have not seen an official MSRP from Forged or STG in the materials we reviewed, so treat those figures as retailer prices, which can vary by shop.
Timing is similarly informal so far. Forged is informing retailers now. Some shops are already taking pre-orders and describing a late November arrival. Cigar Coop’s Nov. 10 report does not include a firm national street date, and we will not invent one.
Today also happens to be Veterans Day, and Powstanie’s War Bear 2026 is landing with only 390 boxes. That is a different cigar and a different story. It just means it is a busy week to call your shop.
If you are mapping the rest of the year’s launches, our guide to new cigars releasing in 2026 is a good companion piece.
Weller by Cohiba 2026 at a Glance
- Series: Sixth annual Weller by Cohiba (2021–2026)
- Size: 6 x 50 Toro
- Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra
- Binder: USA Broadleaf, aged in Weller C.Y.P.B. barrels
- Filler: Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic
- Factory: General Cigar Dominicana
- Packaging: Individual aluminum tubes; 10-count boxes; white-and-gold C.Y.P.B.-styled presentation
- Retailer pricing (not a published MSRP): about $34.99 per cigar
- Timing: Retailer pre-orders under way; late November arrivals reported by shops; no firm national street date in trade coverage we reviewed
The Cigar Guys’ Take
We like a series that changes one meaningful thing and leaves the rest alone. Weller by Cohiba 2026 is not a brand-new blend on paper. It is the familiar Sumatra-over-Broadleaf, three-country filler, tubed Toro—with a binder that rested in C.Y.P.B. barrels instead of last year’s Antique 107. For anyone who already follows this collaboration, that is a tasting project. For anyone new to it, it is a limited, gift-friendly tubo with a clear bourbon story behind the leaf.
Ask your authorized Cohiba retailer about allocation and arrival, and if you have a 2025 still in the humidor, it might be worth saving one for a side-by-side once the 2026 lands. For more on the line, visit Cohiba’s Weller collection page.
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Sources: Cigar Coop: Forged Cigar Company to Release Weller by Cohiba 2026 (Nov. 10, 2026) · Luxury Cigar Club product and news listings · Cohiba: Weller by Cohiba · Cohiba: Weller Partnership · Buffalo Trace: W.L. Weller C.Y.P.B.
