At the 2017 ProCigar Festival, La Aurora Cigars showcased a new line in its portfolio called La Aurora ADN Dominicano. Later, at the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, the La Aurora ADN Dominicano would have a full launch. The distinguishing characteristic of this cigar is that it contains andullo tobacco. Andullo tobacco is something that is […]
The Epic Habano is the third regular production line to be released by Epic Cigars. The line made its official debut at the 2014 IPCPR Trade Show in Las Vegas. Epic Cigars was founded and is owned by Dean Parsons. Parsons had been working in the real estate business in the Turks & Caicos Islands. […]
In 2017, GTO Dominican Cigars launched a line known as Anesthésia. GTO Dominican Cigars is a small boutique vertically integrated company owned by Dr. Oscar Rodriguez. The brand has built a solid following in the southeast part of the United States. The GTO Anesthésia release was designed to be the company’s fullest bodied offering to […]
Just before the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, Gran Habano Cigars started to circulate a pre-release product called La Conquista. La Conquista translates to “The Conquest” and once the cigar and its final packaging were unveiled at the trade show, it was very clear that this was a cigar that paid homage to the age of […]
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 Viaje Zombie Biohazard is an off-shoot of Viaje Cigars’ mysterious Zombie line. While Viaje is known for its small batch and limited production releases, the Viaje Zombie is one of the company’s more limited ones. Viaje Zombie was a line that was introduced in 2011. For five consecutive years, it was extremely limited by […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, General Cigar introduced another collaboration of the Hoyo de Monterrey line with AJ Fernandez known as the Hoyo La Amistad Silver. This is actually the second Hoyo La Amistad cigar done with AJ Fernandez. The year prior, Hoyo de Monterrey introduced the first Hoyo La Amistad cigar (now being referred […]
Today we conclude our series reviewing the nine cigars of the Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series with the La Palina Bronze Label Toro. The cigars in this series are produced by leading manufacturers and brand owners to be sold exclusively by TAA retail members. For La Palina, 2017 was the second consecutive year […]
Altadis U.S.A. has amassed a large portfolio of brands, with some more active than others. One of the more dormant brands over the past five years has been the Trinidad brand. Like several of Altadis U.S.A.’s brands, it has a counterpart in the Habanos S.A. portfolio (after all, Altadis U.S.A’s parent company Imperial brands owns […]
The Oscar Maduro is a release that comes from Oscar Valladares Tobacco and Company. The company’s founder Oscar Valladares made a name for himself when he collaborated with Jim Robinson to produce the very popular Leaf by Oscar series. In 2016, Valladares decided to lend his name to a product under his own company’s umbrella […]
