Alec Bradley American Sun Grown The Alec Bradley American Sun Grown was a cigar that was released mid-year. The American Sun Grown is the second cigar in Alec Bradley’s “American” series. In 2011, Alec Bradley released the Alec Bradley American Classic. The American Classic was an excellent Honduran Connecticut-Shade wrapper and it proved to surprise […]
El Primer Mundo Clase Reserva At the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show in Orlando, Florida, Primer Mundo Cigars launched the El Primer Mundo Clase Reserva. Primer Mundo Cigars is a boutique company based in Atlanta Georgia founded by Sean Williams. Williams has been gaining a solid reputation as one of the rising boutique cigar makers in […]
Rocky Patel Private Cellar At the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show, Rocky Patel Premium Cigars had seven new releases – including six new blends being launched. One of the new blends that got considerable attention was the Rocky Patel Private Cellar. Plans for this release were first told to Cigar Insider back in July, 2012 as this […]
Headley Grange by Crowned Heads Following the success of their debut line Four Kicks, Crowned Heads went to work on a follow-up. It was announced in March 2012 that their second line would be called Headley Grange. The name Four Kicks was in reference to a song by Kings of Leon. Like Four Kicks, Headley […]
Nestor Miranda Special Selection Danno 2012 2012 marked a return of the Nestor Miranda Special Selection Danno series. The Nestor Miranda Special Selection Danno 2012 made its debut at the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show in Orlando Florida. After a one year hiatus, Miami Cigar and Company decided to release another cycle of this series. […]
Anoranzas by Miami Cigar and Company The Anoranzas was one of several new releases by Miami Cigar and Company that was launched at the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show. The Anoranzas was one of eight cigars (including three from La Aurora Cigars) launched by Miami Cigars at the trade show. The Anoranzas stood out for several reasons: It […]
Surrogates Tramp Stamp by L’Atelier Imports The Surrogates Tramp Stamp is one of four cigars making up the Surrogates line for L’Atelier Imports. L’Atelier Imports is a spinoff company to Tatuaje Cigars that made its debut at the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show. Tatuaje founder Pete Johnson was involved with the launch of the company, but […]
1502 Emerald 1502 Cigars is a line of cigars from a company called Global Premium Cigars (GPC). Global Premium Cigars founded by Enrique Sanchez Icaza. The company is based in Nicaragua and focuses on primarily Nicaraguan-based blends. The 1502 is positioned as the company’s premium line and gets its name from the year that Christopher […]
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 provide […]
E.P. Carrillo Cardinal Maduro The E.P. Carrillo Cardinal line is one we have been giving some considerable attention to on this web-site for the past few weeks. This is a new line of cigars recently released by E.P. Carrillo in both a Natural and Maduro offering. The E.P. Carrillo Cardinal line started out with a […]
