Update 4/15/13: The following was one of the ultimate April Fool’s Pranks by the Cigar Industry. Even a bogus press release was made on this one. Turns out this campaign was a “smokescreen” for the launch of a new magazine. Many were fooled, many were not. We were one of the ones who got […]
Perdomo 20th Anniversary Sun Grown The Perdomo 20th Anniversary Sun Grown is one of two blends released by Tabacalera Perdomo to commemorate the company’s 20th anniversary. While announced prior to the trade show, the Perdomo 20th Anniversary line made its debut at the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show. A couple of weeks ago, we took a […]
Perdomo 20th Anniversary Maduro The Perdomo 20th Anniversary Maduro is one of two cigars released by Tabacalera Perdomo to commemorate the company’s 20th anniversary. The line made its debut at the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show in Orlando, Florida. The cigars released are Nicaraguan puros utilizing the best tobacco from Perdomo’s farms in Nicaragua. I recently […]
A few weeks ago, we gave some high level details of a teaser video put out by Perdomo Cigars on their new 20th Anniversary Cigar. Last week, information was officially released on the blend. The Perdomo 20th Anniversary will be box-pressed Nicaraguan puro that will be offered with two wrapper selections – a Cuban Seed […]
Perdomo Cigars has launched the new Perdomo Grand Cru 2006 line of cigars. This cigar line consists of three distinct blends and incorporates two trends: 1) The market for large ring gauge cigars; 2) Leveraging tobaccos from a 2006 vintage of tobacco. All of the blends will have three vitolas and each vitola will consist […]
On Friday June 14, Perdomo Cigars put a video giving a sneak preview of their Perdomo 20th Anniversary Cigar. This sneak preview was posted for only one hour. The video showcases the cigars and packaging that make up this new line. The end of the video indicated “Coming in September 2012 to a tobacconist near […]
The concept of our Cigar Draft is simple. We take a look at some of the new cigars that are in the pipeline. If all of these new cigars were released at once, which ones would be the first to reach for? A lot of variables play into this – the reputation of the company/blender, […]
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. Today, we assign numeric ratings to two previously assessed cigars- the Avo Lounge cigar and the Perdomo […]
The Perdomo Exhibicion line of cigars made its debut at the 2011 IPCPR Trade Show. Like many other cigars in the Perdomo Exhibicion line, it offers consumers three different wrapper options over a common binder and filler blend. This has proven to be a successful approach for Perdomo cigars because not only creates variations in […]
Perdomo Exhibicion Sun Grown In July, we previewed a new line of cigars launched by Tabacalera Perdomo at the 2011 IPCPR Trade Show. This line of cigars is called the Perdomo Exhibicion. The Perdomo Exhibicion line is built similar to many of the other Perdomo lines – namely providing three different wrapper options over a […]
