My Father Le Bijou 1922 Federal Cigar 91st Cervantes Connecticut Shade In 2011, it is well known that one of the big stories in the cigar industry has been the large amount of releases of Ecuadorian/ Connecticut Shade wrapper cigars. For the Garcia family, much of the activity has been more limited and experimental in […]
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 Drew Estate’s […]
Tatuaje – The Face Tatuaje – The Face was third release in Tatuaje’s limited edition Monster Series. This series was created by Tatuaje founder Pete Johnson as a tribute to monster and horror movies. The Face was released in 2010 and gets its name from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface. The Face took its place […]
Oliva Serie V Maduro 2011 The Oliva Serie V Maduro is an annual limited production release that is a maduro version of the popular Oliva Serie V (which uses a Nicaraguan Habano Sun-grown wrapper) . The Serie V Maduro is done in a single vitola, and the blend has varied from year to year. The […]
Tatuaje Petite Cazadores Reserva The Tatuaje Petite Cazadores Reserva was unveiled in 2010 to provide cigar enthusiasts with a quick smoking experience. The Petite Cazadores Reserva looks like one of the “Seleccion de Cazador” (Brown Label) cigar and that’s because it’s an actual variation of that line. It uses a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper as opposed […]
Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch No. 3 The Litto Gomez Diez series is a line of cigars that was introduced by La Flor Dominicana several years ago. It is a line Dominican puros that take all of its tobacco’s from Gomez’s La Canela farm in the Dominican Republic from a single crop year. In 2006, […]
The Oliva Serie V is a cigar line made its mark among cigar enthusiasts. It built its popularity started when it was released in 2007, and while there have been many flashier blends to hit the marketplace, the Oliva Serie V still hangs in there. In 2011, a petit corona vitola was introduced to […]
Casa Fernandez Copacabana The Casa Fernandez Copacabana is a cigar that has really flew under the radar. This was a new release that came out in 2011 by Casa Fernandez cigars. With the rebranding of the Casa Fernandez Miami and the release of the new Casa Fernandez Miami Reserva, somehow the Copacabana got lost in […]