As a part of the celebration of EP Carrillo founder Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr's 70th Birthday, the company has created a three-cigar sampler known as the Platinum Bash. The Platinum Bash will feature three unreleased blends, and consumers get a chance to select one of the blends as a future EP Carrillo limited edition release. Production will be limited to 2,000 boxes of Platinum Bash before the release of the winner in 2023.
All three of the cigars are toros measuring 6 inches by 52 ring gauge, bear identical bands and are only distinguished from one another by the colour of the ribbons at the foot of each cigar. The blends are being kept secret to create a blind taste test for consumers. Inside each of the silvery boxes will be an insert containing a QR code where cigar smokers are directed to a webpage where they can vote for whichever coloured band they enjoyed smoking the most.