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 year 2019 was fairly quiet in terms of product releases for Enrique Sanchez Icaza and Global Premium Cigars. There had been a few product releases earlier this year with the 1502 XO Robusto Gordo and 1502 Sapphire Lancero, when it came to the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show; there wasn’t a new product being showcased, […]
Fans of 1502 Cigars’ Blue Sapphire line have a new size to look forward to. Recently Global Premium Cigars, the parent company of the 1502 brand has released the Blue Sapphire Lancero – the second vitola to be offered in the Blue Sapphire line. The 1502 Blue Sapphire made its debut at the 2016 IPCPR […]
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 […]
Today Global Premium Cigars announced the availability of the 1502 XO Robusto Gordo. It’s the seventh size of the brand’s premium 1502 XO line to go into widespread distribution. The 1502 XO was first released in a Toro size. Following the issuance of the FDA Deeming Regulations, company owner Enrique Sánchez Icaza made a decision to showcase […]
1502 Cigars is putting the sixth size of its 1502 XO line into widespread distribution. Today the company announced that the 1502 XO Perfecto will be hitting retailers beginning November 27th. The 1502 XO Perfecto is a 6 1/2 x 52 vitola. It is packaged in four-count boxes with an MSRP of $78.00 per box. […]
For many years, Global Premium Cigars and 1502 Cigars could be considered interchangeable, but all of that changed this year as Global Premium Cigars introduced its second brand called Cachitos. Cachitos introduces a value-priced bundle-packaged offering – filling a gap that existed in CEO Enrique Sanchez’s cigar portfolio. Cachitos utilizes a Nicaraguan wrapper over a Honduran […]
The 1502 XO line was first showcased in 2015. The distinguishing characteristic of this blend is that it incorporates 18-year-old tobacco into the blend. The cigar first hit the market in March 2016 in a box-pressed Toro. Plans were to unveil a different limited-production vitola into the market each year. However, the Deeming Regulations put in […]
At the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, Global Premium Cigars, best known as the makers of the 1502 brand, will formally introduce a value-priced line known as Cachitos. Blended by Enrique Sanchez Icaza, Cachitos consists of a Nicaraguan wrapper over a Honduran binder and a combination of Nicaraguan and Honduran fillers. Cachitos comes in one […]
Three years ago, at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Enrique Sanchez Icaza and Global Premium Cigars introduced a limited production line known as the 1502 XO. The blend is special because it utilizes 18-year-old tobacco that Sanchez had been able to secure it. The first release of the 1502 XO featured a Toro size with other sizes […]
