CAO La Traviata Maduro – Luminoso In 2010, CAO Cigars released a maduro wrapper version of its popular CAO La Traviata. The original La Traviata had made its debut a year earlier and ended up as our #2 Cigar of the Year for 2009. While the 2010 follow-up, the La Traviata Maduro slotted a bit […]
Quesada Q D’etat Molotov The Quesada Q D’etat was a new line announced by SAG Imports back at the end of 2011. This line is getting some attention for three reasons: 1) It is a cigar meant to make a statement in counterattacking the enemies of tobacco; 2) The three vitolas of this blend are […]
Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur Dark Knight In the past few years, there have been an incredible amount of new cigar brands that have hit the marketplace. This influx of new cigar brands has really moved many old favorites off many cigar enthusiasts’ radar screens. The Hoyo de Monterrey’s Excalibur Dark Knight is one cigar that […]
Cabaiguan WCD 120 Redux – exclusive to W.Curtis Draper Back in January, W. Curtis Draper, a cigar retailer in the Washington DC/Bethesda, Maryland area announced a series of cigars to commemorate their 125th anniversary of being in business. This series would consist of four retail exclusive cigars by leading cigar manufacturers. The first of that […]
La Flor Dominicana Double Claro 2011 saw the releases of two cigars with the candela wrapper by Illusione and Viaje. This sparked some debate as to what was the better blend (this website had the Viaje WLP Candela the #28 cigar for 2011). While I don’t think the use of candela wrapper was enough to […]
Gran Habano STK Zulu Zulu Ecuadorian Connecticut Many times a cigar maker will make a personal blend for his private collection. This has been seen with Drew Estate’s Steve Saka with Liga Privada as well as Tatuaje’s Pete Johnson with the Black Label. It is also the case for Gran Habano’s George Rico with the […]
Room 101 LTD OSOK When Matt Booth and Camacho Cigars launched the Room 101 Cigars line in 2009, it was one of the most highly anticipated new lines by the cigar industry. While there were some good cigars done by Room 101, it was with the 2011 launch of the Room 101 Namakubi and the […]
VegaFina Sumum Edicion Especial 2010 With all of the new cigars that come out every year, it is often easy to pick out which ones are going to be among the best of the best. When we previewed a few weeks ago that the VegaFina Sumum Edicion Especial 2010 was headed to the U.S. market, I didn’t feel […]
The Perdomo Exhibicion line of cigars made its debut at the 2011 IPCPR Trade Show. Like many other cigars in the Perdomo Exhibicion line, it offers consumers three different wrapper options over a common binder and filler blend. This has proven to be a successful approach for Perdomo cigars because not only creates variations in […]
Tatuaje Cabaiguan Guapo Natural If you take a step back and look at the brand portfolio for Tatuaje Cigars, it is quite extensive. With such a large portfolio, it is only natural for some of the lines to become more popular than others. In the past few years, one set of Tatuaje lines that has […]
