Each February comes the celebration of the Chinese New Year, and as we have seen in recent years, it has become quite popular to release a cigar to commemorate the occasion. In the United States market, Davidoff has the best known of these releases. As we have seen over the past few years, there have […]
In 2021, Alec Bradley Cigar Company brought back its Trilogy line. The Trilogy is a set of three distinct blends: Authentic Corojo, Native Cameroon, and Exotic Maduro. The unique thing about the Alec Bradley Trilogy series is that each cigar has a triangular press. The Trilogy was originally introduced in 2002, but eventually would be […]
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 […]
In 2021, JR Cigar celebrated its 50th anniversary in business. To commemorate the occasion, the company decided to work with its many partners and suppliers to create a series of limited edition 50th anniversary cigars. A total of 12 cigars were produced during the golden jubilee year, working out to approximately one cigar per month. […]
If there is one thing that is guaranteed to get both people in the cigar industry or hard-core cigar enthusiasts excited, it is when they see a premium cigar product make it into mainstream channels. Look no further when a team wins a championship and is smoking a cigar – often the question on many […]
Early in 2021, Drew Estate quietly released an addition to its Liga Privada Unico Serie known as the Year of the Ox. The Year of the Ox continued Drew Estate’s delivery of special offerings for the international (non-U.S.) market. Late in 2020, the Liga Privada Unico Serie Bauhaus was released for the European market. The […]
2021 marks the 21st consecutive year that AVO Cigars has released an annual limited edition cigar. It also marks the start of the third decade of this series – an incredible feat in itself. For the first 14 years (2001-2014), the cigar was positioned as a birthday cigar for the late Avo Uvezian. In 2015, […]
In 2020 Crowned Heads and ACE Prime came together and formed a strategic alliance. Under the alliance, ACE Prime Cigars would now be produced at Crowned Heads. At the same time, Crowned Heads would continue to leverage ACE Prime’s factory, Tabacalera Pichardo. Prior to the alliance, Crowned Heads had worked with Tabacalera Pichardo to produce […]
The period of 2013 to 2017 will long be remembered as the innovation era at Davidoff. During that period, Davidoff would introduce a variety of new regular production and limited edition releases into the market. Post-2017 has seen the number of new releases decrease. One of the Davidoff brands that still has maintained a […]
In 2021 Aganorsa Leaf would release a new line of cigars dubbed the Rare Leaf Reserve. As the name indicates, it is a line to showcase some of Aganorsa’s low-yield tobaccos. Typically when a blend uses a significant amount of low-yield tobaccos, it will be a limited line. But for the Rare Leaf Reserve, Aganorsa […]
