Over the past few years, Jochy Blanco has become a power in the cigar industry. He is best known as a tobacco grower and the owner of the Tabacalera Palma factory. Tabacalera Palma is known more recently for brands such as Boutique Blends, Matilde Cigars, Villiger, and Las Cumbres Tabaco, but it is a factory […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, My Father Cigars showcased a new offering under its flagship My Father brand called the My Father La Opulencia. La Opulencia introduces a Mexican wrapped offering under the My Father line. While this is the first My Father branded cigar to use a Mexican wrapper, it is not the […]
Viaje Cigars is well-known for its seasonal holiday-themed releases. Over the years, the company has released small batches with themes such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick’s Day, and Independence Day. In 2013, the company introduced a Halloween-themed release known as the Viaje Full Moon. For the most part, the Full Moon has been released as […]
The Camacho Nicaraguan Barrel-Aged is the third installment of Camacho’s Master Built Series. The series launched two years ago with the Camacho American Barrel-Aged. This was a cigar that was a unique project that built a blend around a corojo leaf that was aged in a bourbon barrel. The Nicaraguan Barrel Aged takes a different […]
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 […]
In 2015, the AVO Cigars brand in the Davidoff portfolio underwent a refresh. While it wasn’t as dramatic as what Davidoff had done with Camacho or Winston Churchill, it still consolidated the existing portfolio and introduced new packaging. Later in 2015, the AVO brand would introduce a new segment of its portfolio known as AVO […]
Back in June 2016, My Father Cigars released its latest annual limited edition cigar, the My Father Le Bijou 1922 Limited Edition 2016. With the exception of 2014; each year since 2010, My Father Cigars has released a one-and-done limited edition release. There have been two common denominators of these limited editions. First, each cigar is […]
Five years ago Pete Johnson launched L’Atelier Imports with brother K.C. Johnson and friends Dan Welsh and Sean “Casper” Johnson. One of the company’s first releases was an eponymous release known as L’Atelier. What makes the L’Atelier unique is it incorporates a wrapper known as Sancti Spiritus. Sancti Spiritus is a tobacco that is a hybrid between Criollo and Pelo […]
In 2014, Andre Farkas and Viaje Cigars launched a project where Viaje would team up with industry leaders to produce a collaboration cigar. The series was originally dubbed Viaje Collaboration, but that would change in 2016 due to a trademark issue. The common denominator would be that Viaje would do the collaboration with someone who […]
The MUWAT Kentucky Fire Cured Swamp Rat by Drew Estate is one of three cigars that combine two unlikely tobaccos together – namely candela and fire cured. Back in 2013, fire cured tobacco became a trend in the cigar industry. At that time, Drew Estate didn’t just make a cigar with fire cured tobacco, they […]
