Cigar maker Davidoff launches new 'Winston Churchill' range

      Iconic British wartime leader Winston Churchill will have a cigar to his name after Swiss manufacturer Oettinger Davidoff said Thursday it is launching a new brand bearing his moniker.

      The Churchill family has given the Basel-based company exclusive rights to produce, market and distribute cigars, cigarillos and smoking items with the "Winston Churchill" brand, company boss Reto Cina said in a statement.

      In common cigar parlance however, a "Churchill" is a Cuban Havana cigar measuring 178 mm by 18.65 mm.

      Oettinger Davidoff has not produced any Havana cigars since a dispute with Cuban manufacturers in the late 1980s.

      The company said its new range of Churchills would use tobacco grown on plantations in the Dominican Republic, Peru, Nicaragua and Ecuador.

      Winston Churchill was British prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

      He was famous for his defiance of the Nazis, his stirring oratory and trademark cigar and "V for victory" sign.

      In 2002, a BBC poll with more than one million votes saw him voted the Greatest Briton of all time.

      “二战”时期英国著名首相温斯顿•邱吉尔不久要拥有属于他自己的雪茄了，因为瑞士雪茄制造商奥汀•大卫多夫公司于本周四宣布，他们将推出一款“邱吉尔”牌新雪茄。

      该公司总部位于巴塞尔，老板里特•斯纳在一份声明中介绍，邱吉尔家族已授权该公司独家生产、销售和配送“温斯顿•邱吉尔”牌雪茄和小雪茄等香烟类产品。

      在通用的雪茄用语中，“邱吉尔雪茄”是一种长178毫米，直径为18.65毫米的古巴哈瓦那雪茄。

      在上世纪80年代晚期，奥汀•大卫多公司因与古巴雪茄生产商发生纠纷，因此一直未推出任何品种的哈瓦那雪茄。

      据该公司介绍，其最新推出的“邱吉尔”雪茄系列将使用多米尼加、秘鲁、尼加拉瓜和厄瓜多尔种植场的烟草为原料。

      温斯顿•邱吉尔曾在1940年至1945年及1951年至1955年两个时期任英国首相。

      邱吉尔首相以其在“二战”期间顽强抵抗纳粹侵略、激动人心的演讲术、叼着招牌雪茄以及“V”形胜利手势而著名。

      在英国广播公司2002年的一项民调中，邱吉尔首相以一百多万张选票当选“英国最伟大的人物”。