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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
The Oliveros Gran Retorno is a line of three blends offered by Boutique Blends Cigars. The name “Gran Retorno” means “Great Return.” When it comes to the Oliveros Gran Retorno, it’s actually a second “Great Return.” To understand this we need to go back into the history of Boutique Blends Cigars. Ten years ago, before there […]
If you have followed the evolution of the first seven years of Crowned Heads Cigars, it was a company that established manufacturing partnerships with two cigar factories: Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr‘s Tabacalera La Alianza and the Garcia Family’s My Father Cigars. The latter part of 2018 would be a very important one for Crowned Heads as […]
In 2020, Perdomo Cigars announced two new offerings in its Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary line with the Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Box-Pressed Sun Grown and Maduro offerings. These two cigars would be placed alongside the Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Champagne, the company’s hugely successful Connecticut Shade offering. To make room for the new Perdomo […]
Diamond Crown is a brand in the J.C. Newman portfolio that is positioned as the company’s ultra-premium line. The genesis of this line goes back to the 1990s, when past J.C. Newman Cigar Company President Stanford Newman wanted to create a cigar for the company’s 100th anniversary which would be celebrated in 1995. Newman would […]
Over the past three years, Davidoff has focused a considerable amount of attention of bringing many of its iconic releases that were either limited production or discontinued back to the forefront. Earlier this year, Davidoff announced that the AVO Classic Belicoso was returning for a limited production run. The AVO Classic line is one of 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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
During the Summer of ’20, HVC Cigars unveiled a new regular production offering known as Hot Cake. Whether the name is a tribute to the popular breakfast food, or simply because the cigar will “sell like hot cakes” is a bit unclear. What we do know is that this is not the first time HVC […]
Stallone Cigars is a company owned by Tony Barrios. Barrios hails from Venezuela from a family which has a background in tobacco. In 2014, he launched Stallone Cigars. The name Stallone is Italian for stallion and it reflects on the theme of the company. It also reflects Barrios’ love of horses, as in his spare […]
In terms of new regular production releases, the brands of Davidoff have been relatively quiet with most of the focus around limited editions. In 2020, Davidoff would unveil its product roadmap for the year and one line announced was Camacho Nicaragua. Camacho Nicaragua was the one release on the 2020 Davidoff product roadmap that would […]
