Viaje White Label Project (WLP) St. Patrick’s Day Candela 2013 The Viaje White Label Project (WLP) St. Patrick’s Day Candela 2013 marks the third consecutive year that Viaje has released a candela-wrapped cigar. As with the previous two years, the release has been timed with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. While it didn’t come as […]
Assessment Updates will be posted on this web-site to: 1) Assess “pre-review” cigars that were not given a rating or score (typically pre-release cigars); 2) Provide numeric ratings to cigars previously assessed prior to the implementation of the numeric scoring system; 3) A re-assessment and re-score of a previously assessed/score cigars. Today, we provide a score […]
Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan The Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan marks Alec Bradley’s first foray into the world of candela cigars. For this release, the company chose to work with its popular Black Market blend, but use a candela wrapper. It has become a recent trend in the cigar industry to time […]
Viaje WLP Candela 2013 (Picture linked from Viaje Cigars Facebook page) For the third consecutive year, Viaje Cigars is releasing a candela cigar. A picture of the Viaje White Label Project (WLP) Candela 2013 appeared on the Viaje Cigars Facebook page. As with most Viaje announcements, there was a little aura of mystery around it. […]
The Black Market Candela will now be known as Filthy Hooligan. Picture linked from Alec Bradley Facebook Page A little over a week after its announced, Alec Bradley Cigars has renamed its upcoming Black Market candela cigar to the Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan. The renaming of this cigar was announced in a […]
Picture linked from Alec Bradley Facebook Page Note: This cigar has since been renamed the Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan. For a update on the renaming of this cigar, please also refer to this additional article. A Facebook post by Alec Bradley Cigars announced a new limited edition release of the Alec Bradley Black […]
Asylum Cigars is planning on launching a new 7 x 70 cigar called the Asylum Ogre. The Ogre will not only be a large ring gauge cigar, but it will be a barberpole. The unique thing about this particular barberpole is that it will consist of a combination of candela and maduro wrappers. This […]
Rocky Patel Edge Candela Rocky Patel Premium Cigars became the latest premium cigar manufacturer to release a candela cigar. The release of the Rocky Patel Edge Candela is the third major candela release for 2012 joining La Flor Dominicana (Double Claro) and Viaje (WLP St. Patrick’s Day Candela 2012). Candela (technically called Double Claro) wrappers […]
Rocky Patel Edge Candela – picture linked from Twitter Yesterday, the picture above appeared on both Twitter and Facebook. On Facebook, the caption said “The Edge is going green”. This is in reference to the Rocky Patel Premium Cigars’ new Edge Candela. This is in reference to the fifth blend of Rocky Patel’s Edge series […]
Viaje White Label Project (WLP) St. Patrick’s Day Candela 2012 Last year, Viaje released its first candela, the White Label Project St. Patrick’s Day Candela. We were very high on this particular release and ranked it as our #28 Cigar of the Year for 2011. A few week’s ago, we reported on that Viaje was […]
