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Review: El Centurion 2013 (Prerelease)

In 2007, José “Don Pepín” García released his first official limited edition cigar, the El Centurion. Rolled in three vitolas at first limited to 850 boxes of 20 cigars and priced well north of $10, the release was said to be his own personal blend. A Lancero was added to the line in December of [...]

Redux: My Father S Special

Back in May of 2012 I reviewed the My Father S Special, a cigar that is only given out with box purchases at My Father events. The S Special comes in cardboard three-packs and is only made in a 5 x 50 Robusto vitola. It is rumored to be blended to taste similar to the El [...]

Review: My Father Limited Edition 2012

Back into 2010, My Father Cigars announced an extremely unique release, the My Father Limited Edition 2010. Each cigar came in its own individual coffin and each was rolled by José “Don Pepín” García and bunched by Jaime García. The blend also used the famed Pelo de Oro leaf, a tobacco strain that is notoriously [...]

Review: My Father Commemorative 911 Blend 343 Firefighter Limited Edition 2012 Connecticut

For the second year in a row, My Father and Casa de Montecristo in Chicago have teamed up to release a cigar to commemorate the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City.  Last year’s release featured a single blend with two different wrappers: Habano Rosado and Oscuro. This year’s release features a tweaked version of [...]

Review: My Father Commemorative 911 Blend 343 Firefighter Limited Edition 2012 Maduro

Last year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Jaime García and Casa de Montecristo released a limited edition My Father 911 343 with two different wrappers: Habano and Oscuro. Here is a little more of the back story directly from the 911 Cigars website: Last year Jeffrey Holst, a battalion chief here in Lombard Illinois, brought [...]

Review: Jaime Garcia Sur Oeste Corona

Back in May of this year, in the midst of a variety of regional editions coming from My Father Cigars Inc. and Pete Johnson’s Havana Cellars, whose cigars are made by My Father, a regional edition for accounts in Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas was announced, the Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Sur Oeste, which translates into southwest. [...]

Redux: My Father Atlantic Cigar Co. 15th Anniversary Box-Pressed Robusto

In February of 2012, site sponsor Atlantic Cigar Co. released the second in their four part 15th Anniversary Series. Made by My Father, it was a box-pressed Robusto measuring 5 1/2 x 52 with an Ecuadorian Habano Criollo over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers. Only 400 boxes of 15 cigars were produced with singles priced at $8.00 and $111.95 for [...]

Review: Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ Salomon

It’s July 22nd, which means it’s about one cigar and one story—the Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ and Jeremiah Cruz Jr. We’ve explained it a few times before, including a year ago when I reviewed the JJ Lancero: In 2005, the newcomer Don “Pepín” García introduced the Series JJ, a cigar that he worked on with [...]

Redux: My Father El Picador

Almost exactly two years ago, I reviewed on of My Father’s smallest vitolas, the El Picador, a custom size and blend made for Empire Cigars in North Carolina. The owner of the store, Hal Rubin, asked José “Don Pepín” García to roll him a limited number of cigars in the Cheroot vitola for his store alone, [...]

Review: My Father Corona

In honor of Father’s Day, Cigars International commissioned the García family to create a special version of its flagship My Father blend, a My Father Corona. After a bit of anticipation, the cigars finally made it through the shipping department at CI and have been on sale for a bit over a week. For those [...]