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Review: Diamond Crown Julius Caeser Toast Across America Figurado (2012)

2012 marks the 10th year of the Toast Across America, Arturo Fuente and the J.C. Newman Cigar Co.’s limited edition two-pack for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. The charity, a venture between the two companies and families, aims to provide a significant humanitarian impact to communities in the Dominican Republic resulting in a better quality of [...]

Review: Diamond Crown Gridiron Greats

J.C. Newman Cigar Co. has a history of participating in charitable causes by making special, limited edition cigars to raise money for those causes. They have an even longer history however of making cigars. As their site states they are “America’s oldest family-owned premium cigar makers” dating back to 1895 when Julius Caeser Newman started [...]

Redux: Diamond Crown Julius Caeser Toro

First introduced at the IPCPR show in 2009, but not actually released until mid 2010, the Diamond Crown Julius Caeser is named and produced in honor of the company’s founder, J.C. Newman. There were some problems with some of the early samples and it was later learned that several thousand had to be destroyed. Interestingly, [...]

Review: Cigar Family 10th Anniversary (CF10)

[Editor's Note: This cigar was gifted to me and smoked with Luke (Benzopyrene on the boards) while sitting on his back porch at his house in Houston, Texas. The box that is in the photos is also his. He also opened up a bottle of Havana Club "Gran Reserva" that we partook in while smoking, [...]

Review: Stanford’s 90th Diamond Crown MAXIMUS

For those of you that don’t know. In 2006, the J.C. Newman Company introduced the Stanford’s 90th Diamond Crown Maximus cigar to pay tribute to Stanford Newman, the firm’s reigning icon, who turned 90 in June 2006, making him the oldest living cigar professional in the business at the time, and who is one of [...]

Review: Diamond Crown Julius Caeser (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… During the middle of the Cigar boom of the 90′s (1996 to be exact), the J.C.Newman Cigar Company introduced the Diamond Crown brand of cigars to the world…The 2nd line in the brand, the Diamond Crown Maximus was introduced in 2003… At the IPCPR Trade Show in New Orleans [...]