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 […]
Viaje White Label Project (WLP ) Winter Classic Andre Farkas, founder of Viaje Cigars confirmed on Facebook today that the first White Label Project cigar of 2012 is going to be released. This cigar has been branded the Viaje White Label Project Winter Classic. From the packaging, we are able to confirm that this will […]
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 […]
Punch Rare Corojo 10th Anniversary (2011) General Cigars will once again release it’s limited run Punch Rare Corojo line this March according to a report on Cigar Aficionado.com. The 2012 release will feature two blends. First up, the special Punch Rare Corojo10th Anniversary blend, that was released last year will once again make a limited […]
Andre Farkas, founder of Viaje Cigars posted a picture today of the 2012 Viaje White Label Project (WLP) Candela. The timetable for this release has not been announced, but since the 2011 release was targeted for St. Patrick’s Day, it might be a safe assumption that this release will probably be targeted around the same […]
Perdomo Exhibicion Sun Grown In July, we previewed a new line of cigars launched by Tabacalera Perdomo at the 2011 IPCPR Trade Show. This line of cigars is called the Perdomo Exhibicion. The Perdomo Exhibicion line is built similar to many of the other Perdomo lines – namely providing three different wrapper options over a […]
Assessment Updates will be posted on this web-site to: 1) Assess “pre-review” cigars that were not given a rating or score (typically pre-release cigars); 2) Provide numeric ratings to cigars previously assessed prior to the implementation of the numeric scoring system. Today, we assign numeric ratings to two previously assessed cigars from Tatuaje Cigars […]
E.P. Carrillo NWC Short Run 2012 In 2010, E.P. Carrillo launched their first “Short Run” blend. The Short Run series is meant to be exactly what the name implies – a limited run cigar. The first cigar was the E.P. Carrillo Short Run 2010 (our #15 cigar for 2010) followed by the E.P. Carrillo Short […]
Picture linked from Atlantic Cigars.com Slowly but surely, My Father Cigars is becoming a power player in retail exclusive cigars. Atlantic Cigars has announced that a My Father cigar will be made available as a part of their 15th anniversary series. This one is called the My Father Atlantic 15th Anniversary Robusto Box Pressed. The […]
Tatuaje Havana VI As Tatuaje Cigars continues to grow its line of both core and limited edition cigars, there are many existing lines that sometimes get overlooked. One such line is the Tatuaje Havana VI line – or more commonly known as the “Tatuaje Red Label”. There is some reasoning behind the name Havana VI. […]