The Zino brand was established back in 2003 and was targeted to offer high-quality premium cigars to a younger, more contemporary audience. Over the past few years, the brand has become one of the dormant ones in the Davidoff portfolio. (During the past five years, Davidoff has focused on building its Black Label Discovery Series […]
Last November came word of Altadis U.S.A.’s latest collaborative project, the Montecristo Ciudad de Musica. This project is a three-way collaboration among Altadis U.S.A., Crowned Heads Cigars, and Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr’s Tabacalera La Alianza factory. The past four years have seen Altadis U.S.A. teaming up with other factories and brands for collaborations, but for Crowned […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 1502 Serious Cigars Edition is a limited edition project that comes from Enrique Sanchez Icaza of 1502 Cigars. It is a shop exclusive cigar that is being launched on May 14, 2018, at Serious Cigars, a chain of retailers under the Casa de Montecristo umbrella. 1502 Cigars gets its name from the year that […]
Back in January, Southern Draw Cigars announced its first major release for the 2018 calendar year – a lancero size for its Rose of Sharon line. Rose of Sharon is an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade offering that had a very limited release just before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s August 8, 2016 deadline before […]
Hit & Run is one of two collaborations released in 2017 by Matt Booth and Robert Caldwell. Booth is best known as the owner of the Room 101 lifestyle brand, which includes cigars. For Booth, these two collaborations marked a return to the cigar industry after a brief hiatus. In January 2017, Booth announced he […]
At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis U.S.A. introduced a limited edition offering under its Romeo y Julieta line known as the Romeo y Julieta Reserve Rare 11 Years Old. The name of this cigar tells the story of it – namely, these were cigars that were aging for 11 years at Altadis U.S.A.’s Honduran […]
In 2018, Tobacco Haven, a family-run retailer out of Brookline, New Hampshire is celebrating 30 years in business. To commemorate the occasion, Tobacco Haven has commissioned Casa Fernandez Cigars for a limited edition shop exclusive, the Casa Fernandez Miami Tobacco Haven 30th. Casa Fernandez Cigars has recently rebranded its company name as Aganorsa Leaf, but the Casa […]
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 […]
