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Review: Partagás Dunhill Selección Suprema No. 281 (1950s)

About two years ago, a good friend of mine called me up and told me he had purchased a sealed box of Dunhill Selección Supremas that he had never heard of or seen before. He asked me to take some photographs of the box, and I told him I would be happy to. In fact, he [...]

Review: Por Larrañaga Dunhill Selection Suprema No. 31 (1960s)

It has been said that Dunhill produced some of the best cigars in the world, and it has been theorized that the reason the cigars were so good was that they were using superior tobacco in all of their blends. However, what some people may not be aware of is that for a time, Dunhill blended their [...]

Review: Davidoff No.1

In August of 1989, one of the most expensive, yet least destructive fires in history took place. Zino Davidoff, founder of Davidoff, allegedly burned upwards of 130,000 Cuban Davidoffs in the infamous Davidoff bonfire that marked the end of white label in Havana. By 1991, after years of frustration over poor quality, Cuban Davidoffs were no [...]

Review: Paul Garmirian PG Corona Grande (1995)

For those of you that don’t know… Today is the first non-Cuban cigar that will qualify as “vintage” as per our standards and it comes from Dr. Paul Garmirian. Paul Garmirian has been around the cigar business for a while and may well be one of the most interesting cigar brands you have never heard [...]

Review: H. Upmann Crystales (1940s)

For those of you that don’t know… H. Upmann is a Cuban brand that has a long and interesting history, and the Crystales was a major part of that history until relatively recently. From cigars-review.org: The H. Upmann brand dates back to 1844, when Herman Upmann, a German banker, began using specially imprinted boxes of [...]

Review: Dunhill Cabinetta

Today we will be taking a look at yet another vintage cigar for this week, a 1984 Dunhill Cabinetta. It’s no surprise that we at halfwheel absolutely love anything made by Dunhill. Time and time again they knock us off our feet (see here) with their complexity, construction, flavor and almost indescribable smoothness. Dunhill cigars [...]

Review: Davidoff Dom Perignon

For those of you that don’t know… Ask any cigar smoker that has been enjoying this hobby for a while a cigar they want to smoke before they die, and the odds are the Davidoff Dom Perignon will be fairly close to the top of the list… A brand (much like Dunhill) that has grown [...]

Review: Flor de A. Allones Dunhill Selección Suprema No.50

Today we will be looking at a very old Dunhill made cigar. Some of you may know that Dunhill not only made cigars for themselves but also had exclusive cigars made under other brands lineups. Originally Dunhill had 3 exclusive brands, Don Cándido, Don Alfredo and Flor Del Punto which were all Dunhill brand cigars. [...]

Review: Lords of England (1920s)

For those of you that don’t know. There have been quite a few cigar companies that have gone out of business in the last 200 years (especially in Cuba), but even I was not aware of how many there were. Perelman’s Pocket Cyclopedia of Havana Cigars says it thusly: New brands have been introduced almost [...]

Review: Partagás Dunhill Selección Suprema No.150 (1979)

For those of you that don’t know… In the annals of cigar history, Dunhill is considered to have produced some of the best sticks of all time… The cigars that Dunhill produced are legendary, and it has been theorized that the reason the cigars were so good was that Dunhill was using superior tobacco in [...]