At the 2023 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, Padrón Cigars introduced a pair of cigars that were made exclusively for retailers who were PCA Show attendees – the Padrón Black PB 97. Following the formula used for many Padrón releases, the Padrón Black PB 97 will be available in a Natural and Maduro format. […]
In 2021, Padrón Cigars added to its record for Number One Cigars of the Year when it captured its fourth Number One cigar with the Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series Torpedo Natural. Now the company has updated its No. 1 Cigar of the Year Sampler to include that cigar. Information on the sampler was communicated to […]
The Padrón Family Reserve No. 96, a 5 3/4 x 52 line extension to the Padrón Family Reserve line that was first introduced at the 2022 PCA Trade Show as an exclusive to attendees, is finally heading to retailers next week. The No. 96 is the seventh installment of the Padrón Family Series. Dubbed the […]
Tonight we begin Aging Experiment #5 as we discuss and smoke the Padrón Family Reserve No 46 Maduro. With the “Aging Experiment” Series, Bear and Coop smoke a cigar, smoke another cigar of the same blend and size six months later, and a third cigar one year later. The idea is to see how the […]
Tonight we begin Aging Experiment #5 as we discuss and smoke the Padrón Family Reserve No 46 Maduro. With the “Aging Experiment” Series, Bear and Coop smoke a cigar, smoke another cigar six months later, and a third cigar one year later. The idea is to see how the cigar responds to aging over a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over the years, Padrón Cigars has had some high-profile launches at the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) and its predecessor shows (IPCPR, RTDA). When it came to the 2022 PCA Trade Show, nothing came close to what we saw with the collaboration with Arturo Fuente for Fuente y Padrón Legends. While this might not be a […]
At the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, the joint project between Arturo Fuente Cigars and Padrón debuted. The principals of the project, Jorge Padrón and Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr. created cigars to honor their fathers, the late José Orlando Padrón and Carlos Fuente Sr. The twist is that each principal blended a cigar […]
The long-awaited collaboration by Arturo Fuente and Padrón Cigars is happening. The project which was announced in October 2020 has been dubbed Legends and it will be unveiled 3:30pm on Sunday, July 10th at the Premium Cigar Association Trade Show. Other than confirmation and a name, there were only some high level details that were […]
