The Cigar Smoking World Championship is a competition that involves who can smoke a cigar for the longest time without re-lighting. It’s a competition that stems from a series of worldwide qualifying tournaments, with qualifiers going into a final competition that is usually held in late August in Croatia. While COVID-19 has derailed much of […]
The Perdomo Lot 23 line has been a part of the Perdomo Cigars’ portfolio for nearly two decades. It was a project that was spearheaded by Nick Perdomo Sr., who would then work with his son Nick Jr. to bring the project to life. The Lot 23 line features tobaccos from a single plot of […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, De Los Reyes Cigars showcased a line known as Saga Solaz. The Saga brand has been the workhorse brand for De Los Reyes Cigars since the company reorganized five years ago. Prior to 2019, De Los Reyes had been focusing on its Saga Short Tales series – a series […]
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 […]
For many years, Luis Cuevas Sr. has operated his Tabacalera Las Lavas S.R.L. in the Dominican Republic. A little over a decade ago, Cuevas Sr. created a cigar called the Cuevas Reserva. At that time, Cuevas Sr. faced a huge dilemma – either invest in the time and resources needed to introduce his own brand […]
In 2019, Nat Sherman International introduced a new installment for the Tobacconist Association of America (TAA). The cigar would fall under the Timeless brand and was known as the Timeless TAA 2019 Limited Edition. While this was the second blend released for the TAA by Nat Sherman, Nat Sherman was no stranger to the TAA. […]
The VegaFina Year of the Rat is the third installment of the brand’s limited edition cigar series to pay homage to the Chinese New Year. The past few years have seen the Chinese New Year become a theme of many limited releases. Davidoff is best known for launching its Chinese New Year Series that launched […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Plasencia Cigars launched the third installment of its Alma series known as Alma del Fuego. It was at the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show when Plasencia Cigars officially launched their own brands.The Plasencias are world-renowned for over 150 years experience in the tobacco business. Up until 2017, most of that […]
Over the past few years, Southern Draw Cigars has carefully been expanding the number of brands in its portfolio. The company has certainly worked hard to offer a wide range of cigars to satisfy a wide range of cigar enthusiasts. That would continue into 2019, but the company would take a different route on […]
At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show in Las Vegas, J.C. Newman Cigar Company showcased a maduro counterpart to its Perla Del Mar line appropriately called the Perla Del Mar Maduro. Perla Del Mar translates to “Pearl of the Sea”. It is said that the early European explorers gave the country of Cuba that name. The […]
