Three years ago, at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Enrique Sanchez Icaza and Global Premium Cigars introduced a limited production line known as the 1502 XO. The blend is special because it utilizes 18-year-old tobacco that Sanchez had been able to secure it. The first release of the 1502 XO featured a Toro size with other sizes […]
Agile Cigar Review: Debonaire Daybreak Toro
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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 […]
Cigar Review: RoMa Craft Tobac CRAFT 2018
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Earlier this year, RoMa Craft Tobac unveiled a new installment under its CRAFT brand, the CRAFT 2018. CRAFT serves as the company’s limited edition brand. It was back in 2013 when CRAFT 2013 made its debut. While there was a second installment in the series made in 2014 called WitchCraft, that cigar was made for […]
Cigar Review: Crux Ninfamaniac Dark
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When Crux Cigar Company launched in 2014, it took a very different unorthodox gateway into the cigar market by launching three offerings – each with a ring gauge no bigger than a 33 ring gauge. One of the offerings was a 4 x 32 short panatela known as Skeeterz. The other two offerings, the Ninfamaniac […]
Cigar Review: CAO Zócalo
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The CAO Zócalo is a limited edition cigar that was introduced by General Cigar Company earlier this year. It’s a cigar that falls under CAO’s World Collection, a group of cigars under the CAO brand that showcase different cigar tobaccos around the world. The World Collection is known for the use of rare Brazilian tobaccos (Amazon […]
Agile Cigar Review: Casa Fernandez Arsenio Serie Oro Robusto
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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 […]
Cigar Review: Hit & Run Corona Gorda
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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 […]
Cigar Review: Macanudo Inspirado Red Robusto
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Back in 1968, Edgar Cullman Sr.’s General Cigar Company purchased a factory in Kingston, Jamaica called Temple Hall. At the time the factory owned and produced a small brand called Macanudo. Under Cullman’s leadership, Macanudo became one of the largest cigar brands in the world. While General Cigar is now owned by Scandinavian Tobacco Group […]
Agile Cigar Review: El Primer Mundo Epifania Toro
William Cooper Agile Cigar Reviews, Reviews No Comments 88-90, Agile Cigar Review, Assessment Update, Box Worthy Consideration, El Primer Mundo
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 […]
Cigar Review: Romeo y Julieta Reserve Rare 11 Years Old by Altadis U.S.A.
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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 […]