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Redux: AVO Heritage Short Corona

Earlier this year, AVO released the latest size of its popular price-conscious Heritage line, the Short Corona. The 3 x 5/8 x 43 Parejo was just another in the growing portfolio of smaller sizes from Davidoff brands. Despite my overall appreciation for the line, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the Short Corona on its debut. [...]

Review: AVO 25th Anniversary Edition

Introduced at IPCPR 2012, the AVO 25th Anniversary Edition celebrates Avo Uvezian’s quarter of a century in the cigar business. Avo was born into a very musical family and started playing the piano at three years old. Over the years he has enjoyed a very successful career as a composer and pianist. As a nod towards [...]

Review: AVO Limited Edition 2012 La Trompeta

As has become the tradition, Avo Uvezian’s birthday brought another limited edition cigar, this time in the form of a trumpet, or so was the intention. This year’s version was named La Trompeta, the trumpet, featuring three small circles on the top of cigar to mimic the trumpet keys. The press release went as follows: [...]

Review: AVO Heritage Short Corona

Earlier this month, AVO announced a new extension to its Heritage line, a Short Corona. Measuring in at 3 5/8 x 43, the Heritage Short Corona is yet another small cigar from Davidoff, which is by far the industry leader when it comes to offering the format. Heritage is the third relatively small cigar from [...]

Review: AVO Legacy

The list of AVO Limited Editions is a lengthy one and the annual early spring birthday release is one of the more anticipated yearly traditions in the cigar world. It started in 2002 with the famed AVO 22 and would continue with notable standouts like the AVO LE05 in 2005. There have been all shapes [...]

Review: AVO Heritage Short Robusto (Prerelease)

This year at the IPCPR Show in New Orleans, AVO introduced a brand new line of cigars, supposedly with a fuller, stronger profile…Dubbed the AVO Heritage, it will be made using the exact same Ecuadorian sun-grown wrapper as the Avo 2009 Compañero, as well as a Dominican binder and a blend of five different Dominican [...]

Review: AVO 22 (Euro Release)

For those of you that don’t know…. Back in 2002, AVO released their one of their first “Limited Edition” cigars, the legendary “AVO 22″ (or just “22s” as they are also known)…Blended by the cigar legend Henke Kelner as a private stock for the company at first, after the positive reviews the blend got, they [...]