Just prior to the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Cornelius & Anthony Cigars unveiled two new offerings that would round out the company’s portfolio. One of the offerings was the company’s first maduro offering known as Señor Esugars and the second was an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper offering known as Aerial. To produce these cigars, Cornelius & Anthony […]
Earlier this year Davidoff unveiled what would become its signature release for 2017, the Davidoff Winston Churchill – The Late Hour. Back in 2007, Davidoff had launched a brand that paid tribute to Sir Winston Churchill called Winston Churchill cigars. The brand had been somewhat of a slow mover for the company, so in 2015 the Winston […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, General Cigar’s CAO brand announced the third installment of its Amazon Trilogy known as the CAO Amazon Anaconda. The Amazon Trilogy is a series of limited edition cigars that each incorporate rare Brazilian tobaccos into the blend. The genesis of the Amazon Trilogy traces back to 2014 when CAO released a cigar known as the […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are re-scoring or providing a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
Today we take a look at the Toro size of the Gaaja Maduro Toro by Bombay Tobak. Bombay Tobak is the company founded by Mel Shah. It is the company behind the MBombay line of cigars. In 2016, Shah brought an all-new brand into his portfolio known as Gaaja. Gaaja was a project that Shah had been […]
In 2014, Andre Farkas and Viaje Cigars launched a project where Viaje would team up with industry leaders to produce a collaboration cigar. The series was originally dubbed Viaje Collaboration, but that would change in 2016 due to a trademark issue. The common denominator would be that Viaje would do the collaboration with someone who […]
At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, E.P. Carrillo debuted its Original Rebel line. The inspiration for this line came from Alan Rubin of Alec Bradley, referred to E.P. Carrillo owner and founder Ernesto Perez-Carrillo as “the original rebel”. The name struck a cord with Perez-Carrillo and he decided to launch a new line using the name. Original […]
Just before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s August 8th deadline that required pre-market approval for new cigars products, the brands of Black Label Trading Company (BLTC) and Black Works Studio (BLK WKS) soft-launched a limited release of several brands. One of the new brands under Black Works Studio is a fuller San Andres maduro […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are re-scoring or providing a score for a first time. It might be a blend we […]
Saga Short Tales is a series by De Los Reyes Cigars that focuses on smaller, short-sized smokes. The series consists of ten unique blends, each in a different size with a different theme. De Los Reyes cigars is owned by the Reyes family, which has 160 plus years experience over six generations in all aspects […]
