Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
Agile Cigar Review: Cohiba Edición Diamante 2013 A
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
Agile Cigar Review: Surrogates Animal Cracker AC550 by L’Atelier Imports
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
Agile Cigar Review: Davidoff Escurio Gran Perfecto
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
Agile Cigar Review: El Primer Mundo Clase Reserva
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
Cigar Review: Viaje Zombie Biohazard Green (2016)
Viaje Cigars is known for its small batch and limited production model. In 2011, the company released the first annual release of its Viaje Zombie blend. From 2011 to 2015, Zombie was also been one of the company’s most limited releases – usually only going to about two to four retailers. In 2016, the Zombie […]
Agile Cigar Review: E.P. Carrillo Elencos Don Rubino
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
Cigar Review: Topper Grande 120th Anniversary Natural
In 2016, Topper Cigars celebrated a 120 years in the cigar industry with a release of a pair of cigars known as the Topper Grande 120th Anniversary. Topper Cigars was founded in 1896 by B.P. Topper in McSherrystown, Pennsylvania – a town located in between Gettysburg and York in the south-central part of that State. Today, […]
Cigar Review: CLE Azabache 50 x 5 (TAA Exclusive)
The CLE Azabache is CLE Cigar Company’s contribution to the 2016 Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series. 2016 was the second consecutive year CLE has been a part of the TAA Exclusive Series. A year prior (2015), CLE’s Asylum brand contributed the Asylum Nyctophilia Maduro. With Azabache, it is the first CLE branded cigar to be […]
Cigar Review: Oliveros All Stars Small Batch No. 5 Basso by Boutique Blends Cigars
In 2016, Boutique Blends Cigars resurrected the Oliveros brand name under its traditional premium handmade offerings. One might remember Oliveros as the former name of Boutique Blends before the company rebranded itself in 2012. Since then, Oliveros has pretty much only been used as the brand name for Boutique Blends’ flavored cigar offerings. At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show Boutique Blends […]