Valentino Siesto at InterTabac 2026: Orange Black Arrives and Velero Sets Sail

The Black Series has been growing one cigar at a time, and in September it gets its fourth member.

Orange Black joins Nero Black, Nero Black N.2 and Yellow Black in Dortmund, turning what began as a single line into a family with a face of its own. Next to it on the same booth stands something entirely different: Velero, a brand born on the Adriatic and built around the one thing this hobby is actually for. Slowing down.

Two releases, one stand, three days. Hall 4, Booth 4.C28.

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Orange Black: The Family Keeps Growing

Nero Black. Nero Black N.2. Yellow Black. And now Orange Black.

What started as a single line has quietly turned into a family. Four cigars that share a name, an identity and a look, and yet none of them is a copy of the one before it. That is harder to pull off than most brands admit, and it is the reason people who find one Black end up trying all of them.

Orange Black arrives first as a Robusto, 5 x 50, under a Maduro wrapper. One size, one wrapper, one clear statement of intent.

Founder Valentino Siesto put it plainly. Orange Black is where he wants the Black family to go: cigars you recognise instantly as part of the same house, each one offering its own character and its own experience. His words for the brand are a masterpiece for every day, and that is exactly the space a Maduro Robusto is built to live in. Not the cigar you save for an anniversary. The one you reach for on a Tuesday and never regret.

Velero: The Power of Pause

The second half of the booth is the more personal one.

Velero began on the shores of the Adriatic. The name carries sailing in it, and with sailing comes something most of us have stopped doing properly: slowing down, staying present, letting an hour be exactly one hour.

Brand owner Aleks Djuretic frames it as a pause that is not time lost, but time fully experienced. Anyone who has ever smoked alone at the end of a long day already understands the idea. Velero simply built a brand around it.

Handmade in the Dominican Republic, it comes to InterTabac in four expressions:

Navegante Maduro Horizonte Robusto Admiral Torpedo Marinero Toro

Four names taken straight from the sea, four different shapes, one intention behind all of them.

Why Stop at Booth 4.C28

Because this is a brand you can still get in early on.

The Black family is expanding in real time and Orange Black is the newest branch of it. Velero is a private label arriving in Europe with four expressions and a story that sells itself across a counter. Distributors, retailers and international partners are invited to see both in Dortmund, and the people behind them will be standing right there to explain the thinking.

InterTabac 2026, Messe Dortmund. September 15 to 17. Valentino Siesto Cigars. Hall 4, Booth 4.C28.

Three days. Then everyone goes home and you are reading about it instead of holding it.