CLE Cuarenta A few weeks ago, Christian Eiroa announced the formation of CLE Cigars. Eiroa is best known for his tenure as President of Camacho Cigars. After Davidoff acquired Camacho, Eiroa stayed on for a while before recently leaving to launch CLE. CLE stands for the initials of Eiroa’s full-name – Christian Luis Eiroa. As […]
Room 101 San Andres The Room 101 San Andres is a new core line being offered from Matt Booth’s Room 101 Cigars. It will be offered as a new core line to the brand. It also marks the sixth blend released by Room 101 and fourth in the past twelve months. As the name indicates, […]
Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet Seleccion Capa Habano The Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet Seleccion is a new line of cigars introduced by Pinar Del Rio (PDR Cigars) in 2012. This is Pinar Del Rio’s first line to have the names of the two company principals – Abraham Flores and Juan Rodriguez as the main part of […]
Rodrigo La Fortaleza Cinco 5 Rodrigo Cigars is a boutique blend that was founded by George Rodriguez. Recently, I paid a visit to our friends at A Cigar Smoker’s Journal, and they came up with the concept of doing a joint review between our two cigar web sites. The cigar selected was the Rodrigo La Fortaleza […]
Tatuaje Lil’ Drac Today we begin the first of five assessments of Tatuaje’s Little Monsters Series. Over the next few weeks, we plan to deliver assessments of each of the blends that make up this most anticipated release by Tatuaje Cigars. The Little Monsters Series consists of a sampler pack consisting of smaller vitolas of […]
Rocky Patel Decade Edicion Limitada 2012 When Rocky Patel Premium Cigars released its “Rocky Patel Decade” to commemorate ten years in the cigar business. It also became a game-changing cigar for the company as it became a huge success for the company. In 2010, it was Rocky Patel’s 15th anniversary in the cigar business. For […]
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) Provide a re-assessment and re-score of a previously assessed/score cigars. Today, we assign numeric scores to two cigars from […]
Rocky Patel Hercules The Rocky Patel Hercules is a retail-exclusive cigar for Corona Cigar Company in Orlando, Florida. It is made by Rocky Patel Premium Cigars, who is no stranger to the retail exclusive business. Rocky Patel has launched retail exclusives for stores such as Holt’s (Rocky Patel Ocean Club) and Tinderbox Charlotte (1939 Reserve). […]
Tatuaje Mexican Experiment Earlier this year, Tatuaje Cigars’ founder Pete Johnson unveiled some plans for his 2012 releases on Kiss My Ash Radio. Since then, those plans were reiterated on various media outlets. When word got out of a limited release called the Tatuaje Mexican Experiment, it caught many people off guard. As it turns […]
Aging Room Havao Connecticut The Aging Room Havao Connecticut is the second blend to be released under Boutique Blend Cigars’ Aging Room Cigars line. It is also the first cigar to be launched under the Boutique Blends Cigars’ umbrella. This cigar fills a niche as it adds a Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade cigar into the Boutique […]
