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 […]
“Nick” is a line that was launched in 2020 in the LH Cigars portfolio. The line is named after the company’s founder, owner, and blender Nick Syris. For several years, LH developed a strong core following with its LH blends. Late in 2017, Syris would collaborate with “Island Jim” Robinson on another brand known as […]
In the Spring of 2019, Crowned Heads announced the seventh installment of its Las Calaveras series. Las Calaveras is an annual limited edition release that first made its debut back in 2014. The name “Las Calaveras” translates to “The Skulls.” It is a line that pays homage to those who have passed away over the […]
When ACE Prime walked into the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, they were the new kid on the block. At the same time, they were coming into the trade show with a bang – launching three new lines and seven brands. The cigar that probably garnered the most attention was a project ACE Prime worked on […]
Since its inception, the La Zona factory in Estelí, Nicaragua has been known for cigars that use Ecuadorian Habano or San Andres Maduro wrapper – and has much success with both of those leaves. At the same time, La Zona has not been a two-trick pony and there have been several other wrappers the factory […]
2020 would mark the 25th anniversary of Luis Falto in the cigar business. “Small batch production” is popular now in the cigar industry, but Tabacalera Falto has been doing it for 25 years. Falto planned a couple of cigars to commemorate the occasion: the Falto La Pureza and Falto Edición Especial ELH Hato Viejo 2018. […]
The Fuente Fuente OpusX Angel’s Share is an offshoot of the landmark OpusX line by Arturo Fuente cigars. This year is the 25th anniversary of the OpusX line. What made OpusX such a significant project is that it proved to the world an ultra-premium Dominican puro cigar could be made with a Dominican-grown wrapper. […]
The idea of pairing cigars and meat has been quite a popular concept over the past year. We’ve seen companies such as La Flor Dominicana and Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust do it. However if you go back four years ago, it was Cattle Baron Cigars that brought this concept to market. Cattle Baron Cigars is […]
In 2018, the company known as Casa Fernandez Cigars underwent a major rebranding. The company renamed itself to Aganorsa Leaf and then proceeded to streamline and refresh the packaging in its portfolio. This process is not something that has been done overnight as Aganorsa Leaf has slowly been implementing this. In 2020, there was a […]
Since Matt Booth departed Davidoff and came back from a brief “retirement,” he has been focused on building up his product portfolio. When he returned in 2017, Booth primarily focused on introducing new blends and lines, but that would all change in 2019 with the announcement of The Big Payback Maduro. The Big Payback is […]
