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 also might be a blend […]
On Special Edition 105 we take a journey back to the cigar version of Mount Rushmore. This is the fourth installment of this series. Previously, we have done Drew Estate, Rocky Patel, and Davidoff editions This time Bear and Coop will be looking at their candidates from E.P. Carrillo to fill the four spots on […]
Tonight, we take a journey back to the cigar version of Mount Rushmore. This is the fourth installment of this series. Previously, we have done Drew Estate, Rocky Patel, and Davidoff editions This time Bear and Coop will be looking at their candidates from E.P. Carrillo to fill the four spots on this historic momument […]
E.P. Carrillo’s fourth exclusive release for the Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) has reached member retailers. This one is dubbed simply as the E.P. Carrillo TAA 2021. The E.P. Carrillo TAA 2021 comes in one size – a 6 x 52 soft box-pressed Toro. The blend consists of a Nicaraguan wrapper, Nicaraguan binder, and a […]
E.P. Carrillo has become the first manufacturer to exhibit two consecutive years as Cigar Aficionado’s (CA) #1 Cigar of the Year, the industry’s most prestigious award – namely because there wasn’t any trade show in 2020. Still E.P. Carrillo has definitely been on fire the past few years. This year the focus was around the […]
At the 2021 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, E.P. Carrillo launched a third size to its Pledge line known as the E.P. Carrillo Pledge Apogee. The Apogee was released prior to the show, but the size of the cigar was not unveiled until the show opened. The Apogee is a 6 1/4 x 58 […]
At the 2021 PCA Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, E.P. Carrillo will introduce a new size in its La Historia line, the Parientes. The announcement of the new size was made on the company’s website. The Parientes is a Lonsdale-sized offering measuring 6 1/2 x 43 and becomes the thinnest size in the La […]
One of the iconic limited edition series is making a return. This past week E.P. Carrillo announced that for the first time in five years, the Short Run Series is making a return. Dubbed the E.P. Carrillo Short Run Retro 2021, the initial batch of the cigar is scheduled to be shipped to stores next […]
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 […]
E.P. Carrillo has announced the release of the Perez-Carrillo Trilogy. It’s a three-cigar sampler consisting of one vitola from each of the Perez-Carrillo Family Series lines in the E.P. Carrillo portfolio. Each of these three vitolas has also placed either #1 or #2 on the Cigar Aficionado Top 25. The cigars are presented in a […]
