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Review: La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva Romantico (Prerelease)

Back in July, we heard murmurs that Ashton was preparing a new La Aroma de Cuba as a follow-up to the Mi Amor. The La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva was announced shortly before the IPCPR trade show when Ashton informed a handful of top accounts via a letter. Here’s a copy of that [...]

Review: La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Robusto Limitado TAA Edition

The Mi Amor Robusto Limitado is rolled for Ashton at My Father Cigars S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua, the second La Aroma de Cuba line to get the Pepín treatment after the Edicíon Especial in 2009. The binder and filler are grown by the Garcías, while the wrapper is a Cuban seed that comes from the San [...]

Review: Ashton VSG Robusto Especial

In March of 2011, the Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) met for their annual trade show and meeting in Cabo San Lucas. For those unfamiliar with the TAA, here’s how the organization describes itself: Our Mission Statement: To provide an open forum of ideas, strategies, and problem solving between retail tobacconist and vendors to the [...]

Review: Ashton VSG Estate Reserve Corona Gorda

For those of you that don’t know… In 2001, Prometheus and Ashton teamed up to release the Ashton VSG Estate Reserve, or VSG ER, a hybrid cigar that took the Dominican Chateau de la Fuente Sun Grown Rosado wrapper from the Opus X line of cigars and the filler and binder from the VSG line of [...]

Review: La Aroma de Cuba Edición Especial Lancero

Shocking, another Pepín Lancero. This time, the cigar is produced by the My Father Cigars S.A. factory for Ashton. It’s part of the ever-growing La Aroma de Cuba brand that is Ashton’s friendlier priced brand. It’s not exactly a staple brand of mine, but because of creative marketing, this is one of the more popular [...]