Just prior to the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Cornelius & Anthony Cigars unveiled two new offerings that would round out the company’s portfolio. One of the offerings was the company’s first maduro offering known as Señor Esugars and the second was an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper offering known as Aerial. To produce these cigars, Cornelius & Anthony […]
Today we take a look at the Toro size of the Gaaja Maduro Toro by Bombay Tobak. Bombay Tobak is the company founded by Mel Shah. It is the company behind the MBombay line of cigars. In 2016, Shah brought an all-new brand into his portfolio known as Gaaja. Gaaja was a project that Shah had been […]
At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, E.P. Carrillo debuted its Original Rebel line. The inspiration for this line came from Alan Rubin of Alec Bradley, referred to E.P. Carrillo owner and founder Ernesto Perez-Carrillo as “the original rebel”. The name struck a cord with Perez-Carrillo and he decided to launch a new line using the name. Original […]
Just before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s August 8th deadline that required pre-market approval for new cigars products, the brands of Black Label Trading Company (BLTC) and Black Works Studio (BLK WKS) soft-launched a limited release of several brands. One of the new brands under Black Works Studio is a fuller San Andres maduro […]
Saga Short Tales is a series by De Los Reyes Cigars that focuses on smaller, short-sized smokes. The series consists of ten unique blends, each in a different size with a different theme. De Los Reyes cigars is owned by the Reyes family, which has 160 plus years experience over six generations in all aspects […]
Todos Las Dias was the fifth line by Steve Saka’s Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust to be put into widespread distribution. It was a line that had a soft launch at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show. At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, it would be Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust’s signature release. Todos Las Dias adds a […]
The Quesada Reserva Privada Barber-Pole is the third blend in Quesada Cigars’ Reserva Privada line. As the name indicates, the cigar features two different wrappers arranged in a “barber pole” design. In this case, it incorporates the shade wrapper found on the original Quesada Reserva Privada and the oscuro wrapper found on the Quesada Reserva Privada […]
When Crux Cigar Company made its debut in 2014, it took a most unorthodox gateway into the cigar market. At that time the company launched three cigars with a 33 ring gauge and under. These cigars were the Skeeterz (4 x 32), Ninfamaniac (7 x 33), and Ninfamaniac Dark (7 x 33). The Ninfa is a […]
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 providing a score for the first time or it might be a blend […]
The Esteban Carreras Mr. Brownstone was unveiled at the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show. The cigar introduced a Connecticut Broadleaf maduro offering into the Esteban Carreras portfolio. The name Mr. Brownstone is a slang term for heroin. In addition, the vitola names also feature slang terms associated with heroin (i.e. Speed Ball, Main Line, and Smack). When talking to […]
