San Lotano Oval Connecticut As the 2013 IPCPR Trade Show is about to open in Las Vegas, information has started to surface about the releases from A.J. Fernandez Cigars. Cigar Coop has been able to confirm the release of three cigars for 2013: San Lotano Oval, Pinolero Maduro, and El Mayimbe. The San Lotano Oval […]
San Lotano Oval Maduro The San Lotano Oval Maduro represents the fifth blend released under A.J. Fernandez Cigars’ San Lotano line. The San Lotano line made its debut in 2010 with a Connnecticut, Habano, and Maduro released. A year later, a new blend called the San Lotano Oval was released. While I was a little […]
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 Tatuaje Fausto […]
AJ Fernandez Cigars will be releasing a second blend in its “Oval” series. This one will be a maduro wrapper blend, and it will continue to use the unique oval pressing that was present on the original San Lotano Oval. This information was reported in the February 21st edition of Cigar Insider. The maduro line […]
As always, when I smoke a pre-release cigar, I feel it is premature to give it a firm assessment rating – therefore, I do a pre-review to provide some initial feedback. With some follow-on smokes completed, it’s time to assess some more cigars. Two of the cigars in this assessment update were originally smoked as […]
San Lotano Oval At the 2010 IPCPR, one of the revelations that came out of the trade show was A.J. Fernandez’s debut of his San Lotano line. While many had heard of Fernandez for his reputation as one of the great young blenders in the industry, San Lotano was a new label on the industry. […]
Over the past few months, I’ve done some Pre-Reviews which allow me to document my experiences with a cigar and provide my thoughts. Some of these were pre-releases are now available generally – and others are simply cigars I’ve had more of a chance to think of. I’ve decided to include a few of these […]
The month of May was probably as dynamic a month as there has been in a while in the cigar industry. As always, I’ll highlight some noteworthy events that happened in the world of cigars. The main focus will be on the happenings I explored on the Cigar Coop website, but there was plenty […]
Back on Saturday May 14, 2011, Clay Roberts from San Lotano put out on Twitter that a new limited edition San Lotano would make its debut at the 2011 IPCPR. Overnight, Roberts put some additional information on Twitter about a new cigar making its debut at IPCPR. Most of the information is still very much […]
Last year, one of the cigar companies that became one of the true revelations of the cigar industry was San Lotano cigars. Upon sampling these cigars from IPCPR, this was one of the brands that I felt was truly on the rise. In a lot of ways, this should be no surprise as this is […]
