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 […]
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 […]
At the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, Joya de Nicaragua Cigars unveiled the fourth installment of its Joya series with Joya Silver. The Joya series was first launched back in 2014 with the release of Joya Red and is intended to offer a more contemporary styled smoke in termed of packaging and blend at a […]
One of the busiest companies at the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show was Southern Draw Cigars. For the most part, Southern Draw focused on brand extensions (additional blends for existing brands, and line extensions (new vitolas for existing blends). One of the new brand extensions came to Southern Draw’s 300 Hands brand in the form of […]