Iconic British wartime leader Winston Churchill will have two cigars to his name after Swiss manufacturer Oettinger Davidoff said Thursday it is launching a new brand bearing his moniker.
 
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 parlance¹ 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 plantations² 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 defiance³ of the Nazis⁴, his stirring oratory⁵ and trademark⁶ 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年的一项共有一百多万人参加的民调中，邱吉尔首相当选“英国最伟大的人物”。

Vocabulary: 

to one's name:属于自己