For many years, there have been three workhorse brands in the Altadis U.S.A. portfolio: Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, and H. Upmann. There are many other brands in the Altadis portfolio that have gotten a push from time to time. One brand that has received somewhat of a push has been the Henry Clay brand. Henry […]
Cigar Review: Davidoff Robusto Real Especiales 7 (2019)
As we have documented on Cigar Coop, the past two years at Davidoff has seen many of its iconic blends return to the market for limited runs. Within the Davidoff company, these runs have been seen across the Davidoff, Camacho, and AVO brands. With the Davidoff brand, the company has chosen its Davidoff Vault series […]
Cigar Review: RoMa Craft Tobac CroMagnon EMH Don Bosco
The CroMagnon EMH Don Bosco is a limited production cigar that comes from RoMa Craft Tobac. It’s a cigar that was released for Virginia-based retailer Old Virginia Tobacco Company. It’s an off-shoot of the company’s CroMagnon blend, but utilizes a barber-pole style wrapper of Candela and Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. The name Don Bosco refers to […]
Cigar Review: Davidoff Diademas 100 (Vault Series Re-Release)
Back in 2006, Davidoff celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of company founder Zino Davidoff. To commemorate the occasion, there were three special cigars released: Diademas Finas (6 3/4 x 50), Robusto (5 x 50), and Diademas 100 (9 1/8 x 55). As we have seen in the past couple of years with […]
Cigar Review: La Aurora 115th Anniversary Limited Edition Belicoso
Founded in 1903, La Aurora Cigar is the oldest cigar factory in the Dominican Republic. In 2018, at Inter-Tabac 2018 in Dortmund, Germany, the namesake brand coming out of La Aurora Cigar factory would unveil a series of cigars to commemorate the 115th anniversary of the factory. The La Aurora 115th Anniversary series would consist […]
Cigar Review: Aganorsa Leaf Ground N Pound Elbow Candy
The past decade in the cigar industry has seen the growth of both small batch releases and private label brands. This past year saw Aganorsa Leaf combine both of these concepts in a release for Serious Cigars known as Ground N Pound. Serious Cigars is a retail chain based in Houston, Texas which in 2016 […]
Cigar Review: Crux Limitada RedLine (2019)
The Crux Limitada RedLine is the third size to be released in Crux Cigars’ Limitada line. The Limitada line was first launched in 2015 with the release of the Crux Limitada PB5. Since 2015, the Limitada line has expanded to five sizes and for the most part, has seen the sizes released on an annual […]
Cigar Review: Jas Sum Kral (JSK) Tyrannical Buc Maduro Dobles
The year 2019 has proven to be very busy for Riste Ristevski and his company Jas Sum Kral (JSK) Cigars. It has seen the company introduce four blends into the market. Two of the blends are from the much talked about CBD-infused JSK Nuggs line. The other line is also a two blend line known […]
Cigar Review: Sin Compromiso Selección No. 7 by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
Back at the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, Steve Saka and Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust introduced a line known as Sin Compromiso. While it was a cigar that had a limited introduction in 2016 just before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Deeming Rules were put into effect, it wasn’t until two years later that the […]
Agile Cigar Review: Protocol Themis Corona Gorda by Cubariqueño Cigar Company
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 […]