The Oliveros Gran Retorno is a line of three blends offered by Boutique Blends Cigars. Ten years ago, before there was a Boutique Blends Cigars, there was Oliveros Cigars. During the Oliveros Cigars’ days, the company launched two successful brands – Aging Room and Swag. These brands became the primary brands in the Oliveros portfolio, […]
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 giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
In 2020, Rocky Patel Premium Cigars announced the third incarnation of the Rocky Patel Winter Collection. The story of the Winter Collection dates back to 2008 when Rocky Patel launched a series of limited edition cigars to coincide with each of the four seasons. This series included the Spring Collection, Summer Collection, Autumn Collection, and […]
During the Summer of ’20, HVC Cigars unveiled a new regular production offering known as Hot Cake. Whether the name is a tribute to the popular breakfast food, or simply because the cigar will “sell like hot cakes” is a bit unclear. What we do know is that this is not the first time HVC […]
The Davidoff Year of the Ox is the tenth installment of the company’s Chinese Zodiac-inspired limited-edition cigars. Each year these cigars feature a different blend in a different size with exquisite packaging reflecting the particular Zodiac theme. The Chinese New Year falls between January 21st and February 20th, but typically Davidoff has released the Zodiac […]
Stallone Cigars is a company owned by Tony Barrios. Barrios hails from Venezuela from a family which has a background in tobacco. In 2014, he launched Stallone Cigars. The name Stallone is Italian for stallion and it reflects on the theme of the company. It also reflects Barrios’ love of horses, as in his spare […]
The VegaFina Year of the Ox is the fourth installment of VegaFina’s limited-edition cigar series to pay homage to the Chinese New Year. The past few years have seen the Chinese New Year become a theme of many limited releases. Davidoff is best known for its Chinese New Year Series that launched in 2012 and […]
Throughout its history, if there is one type of cigar that was missing from Viaje Cigars’ portfolio, it was a Connecticut Shade cigar. I’ve interviewed Viaje founder Andre Farkas several times, and I’ve asked him the question multiple times on when he was going to release a Connecticut Shade cigar. Andre’s answer could be summed […]
