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Review: Joya de Nicaragua CyB Lancero Fino (Prerelease)

There are a lot of best of/top cigars lists that appear at the end and beginning of each calendar year, I’d like to think one serves as a model a bit more than any other, The Consensus. It’s a list we’ve curated for the past two years, but an idea tried hundreds of times over in [...]

Review: Joya de Nicaragua Cuenca y Blanco Lonsdale Club (Prerelease)

Ask any number of cigar smokers what their most anticipated cigar of the year is, and you will get any number of answers. But near the top of each of their lists will probably be the release of the Cuenca y Blanco, a cigar blended by none other than José Blanco and Joya de Nicaragua President Dr. Alejandro [...]

Redux: Joya de Nicaragua Cabinetta Serie No.13

I still believe the Joya de Nicaragua Cabinetta Serie No. 13 (Lancero) was one of the quietest releases of 2010. When I reviewed last June as part of Lancero50 — most had never heard of the fifth size of Cabinetta, since then, things have changed a bit. Actually a lot has changed. Here’s what I [...]

Review: My Uzi Weighs a Ton 5 x 60 (Prerelease)

The newest release from Jonathan Drew, My Uzi Weighs a Ton (MUWAT) is the end product of a journey that started with Jonathan creating a blend during on the Cigar Safari tours last November. As Jonathan himself said: “The beginning of the project actually started during the B.O.T.L tour because this was the very first [...]

Review: Joya de Nicaragua Cabinetta Serie No.13

Quietest release of the year? Yes. Drew Estate acknowledged that they literally said nothing when they released this cigar in early May and I’m a bit unsure why. For those that are unaware, Drew Estate handles U.S. distribution for Nicaragua’s oldest cigar company, Joya de Nicaragua. Despite their “oldest man in the room” status in [...]