With March 22nd being Avo Uvezian’s 85th birthday, I figured I was long overdue to provide a detailed assessment for my 2010 Cigar of the Year – the Avo Limited Edition 2010 (Avo LE10). First up, you will notice that this cigar was not only my #1 Cigar of the Year for 2010, but it […]
A true friend to all cigar enthusiasts in the Carolinas, Oliveros’ Rafael Nodal will be at Outland Cigars on Thursday March 24th (Ballantyne Location) and Friday March 25th (South Park) location for a two day event extravaganza! Rafael has blended some of the finest cigars over the last few years. King Havano challenges the best […]
Because Connecticut Shade wrapper cigars tend to be milder in nature, I often have to look for a special one. Back in 2010, when I tried the San Lotano Connecticut, I thought it broke the mold for Connecticut Shade wrapper cigars because it brought spice and robust flavors for it. However, the San Lotano was […]
One of the other spring released planned by E.P. Carrillo is the launch of the E.P. Carrillo Elencos series. This is one of five planned releases for the calendar year. The Elencos series is actually a rebranding of E.P. Carrillo’s E.P. Carrillo Edicion Limitada 2010. This cigar was actually ranked #8 on Cigar Aficionado’s Top […]
For a long time, a bunch have us have been talking about setting up a 64 team single elimination bracket for cigars in the same fashion as the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. For whatever reason, we just have not gotten around to doing this. Well the folks at Cigar Think Tank are ahead of the […]
As reported almost two weeks ago, 2011 seems like it is going to be a huge year for the folks at E.P. Carrillo with five planned releases for the calendar year. One of the big launches planned is for a Connecticut wrapper E.P. Carrillo – this is being branded the E.P. Carrillo New Wave Connecticut. […]
So here we are, St. Patrick’s Day, and it’s time for another cigar. In my opinion, this is the perfect day for enjoying candela wrapper stogie. If you have been reading Cigar-Coop in the month of March, the word of the month is “candela”. This month, I’ve smoked two great candela cigars: the Viaje […]
The great Candela debate continues. It is time to review the Illusione 88 Candela. Earlier this year, Illusione cigars released candela wrapper versions of some of their popular cigars. At the beginning of March, Viaje cigars released their White Label Project Candela. I enjoyed the Viaje WLP Candela a lot – in fact, I even felt […]
There are two reasons why I wanted to review the Illusione MJ12. The first reason is that I simply have not paid enough attention to the Illusione brand. There is no doubt that Dion Giolito has built a huge following of cigar enthusiasts and his products have a great reputation. The second goes to what […]
This evening the first step of bringing Cigar-Coop into modern technology was taken. Cigar Coop has now migrated to using a custom domain – https://www.cigar-coop.com. I’ve been assured by all technologists that this was a seamless process. So far, except for a few glitches, things seemed to have worked pretty well. There may still […]
