Tatuaje Wolfie In this assessment, we explore the Tatuaje Wolfie. This is the third of five cigars in Tatuaje’s Little Monsters Series. This series consists of a sampler pack consisting of smaller vitolas of the popular Tatuaje Monster Series. The Monster Series was created by Tatuaje founder Pete Johnson as a tribute to monster and […]
Pinar Del Rio Small Batch Reserve Habano The Pinar Del Rio Small Batch Reserve Habano is one of two new blends in Pinar Del Rio’s new Small Batch Reserve line. The Small Batch Reserve joins two other significant releases by Pinar Del Rio Cigars for 2012. The other cigars are the Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet […]
Tatauaje Baby Face This is our second of five assessments of the blends that have been released in the Tatuaje Little Monsters Series. This series consists of a sampler pack consisting of smaller vitolas of the popular Tatuaje Monster Series. The Monster Series was created by Tatuaje founder Pete Johnson as a tribute to monster […]
Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet Seleccion Capa Habano The Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet Seleccion is a new line of cigars introduced by Pinar Del Rio (PDR Cigars) in 2012. This is Pinar Del Rio’s first line to have the names of the two company principals – Abraham Flores and Juan Rodriguez as the main part of […]
Rodrigo La Fortaleza Cinco 5 Rodrigo Cigars is a boutique blend that was founded by George Rodriguez. Recently, I paid a visit to our friends at A Cigar Smoker’s Journal, and they came up with the concept of doing a joint review between our two cigar web sites. The cigar selected was the Rodrigo La Fortaleza […]
Fonseca CXX Anni Corona The Fonseca CXX Anni is a special limited production cigar that made its debut in 2011. The cigar is made by the folks at S.A.G Imports. and released under S.A.G’s Fonseca line to commemorate the 120th anniversary of that particular brand. Last year, based on my experiences of the three vitolas […]
Le Bijou 1922 Ecuadorian Connecticut Federal Cigar Edition Petite Robusto Today we explore a third vitola that is a retail exclusive cigar to Federal Cigar in New Hampshire. This cigar was blended by My Father Cigars and is an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade version of their Le Bijou blend. The line has been dubbed “My Father […]
Rocky Patel Decade Edicion Limitada 2012 When Rocky Patel Premium Cigars released its “Rocky Patel Decade” to commemorate ten years in the cigar business. It also became a game-changing cigar for the company as it became a huge success for the company. In 2010, it was Rocky Patel’s 15th anniversary in the cigar business. For […]
Quesada Q D’Etat Howitzer Late last year SAG Imports announced a new line to the Quesada Cigars line. This cigar is called the Quesada Q D’etat. There is a theme behind this line of cigars. It is intended to support the industry’s battle against the government and anti-tobacco factions. There are three vitolas planned as […]
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; 3) Provide a re-assessment and re-score of a previously assessed/score cigars. Today, we assign numeric scores to two cigars from […]
