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Review: La Flor Dominicana Texas Cigar Festival

In addition to the cigars that it puts in attendees’ bags, La Flor Dominicana showed up to the Texas Cigar Festival on April 20 with a small amount of limited cigars in tow, a cigar simply called the La Flor Dominicana Texas Cigar Festival. There isn’t a ton of back story on this box-pressed Toro; [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Mystery

Last month, La Flor Dominicana announced a new cigar called the “Mystery Cigar” that would be given out and sold exclusively at specific events in 2013. Details on the blend are being purposely kept secret, as are total production numbers and even if it will be released again in the future. The press release had [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Meaner Digger

Taking things to ever bigger and longer extremes in the cigar world, the La Flor Dominicana Meaner Digger was created as a store exclusive for Tobacco Haven in Brookline, NH, who held an “end of the world” release party on December 21, 2012. News of this new cigar came out just after Thanksgiving, just shy of [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Oro Natural No. 6 (Prerelease)

Among a handful of new releases from La Flor Dominicana at this summer’s IPCPR trade show was the Oro line, a trio of cigars with a new blend and packed in gold tubes, which in turn come in five-count boxes. According to Litto Gomez, the line is said to be “an amped up Coronado blend,” a reference to [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Limitado V (Prerelease)

In 2002, Litto Gomez released the first Limitado cigar, a 6 1/2 x 54 Toro that used an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper over Dominican filler and binder.  Roughly every two years since, a new Limitado has been introduced, and the newest version the Limitado V was introduced at the IPCPR show in Orlando, Florida last week. [...]

Redux: Coronado Maduro Corona Especial

Released way back in April of 2009, the Coronado by La Flor Maduro Corona Especial never really caught on with consumers. Intended as an experiment of sorts, this release is the exact same blend as the regular Coronado by La Flor, with a Maduro wrapper from Ecuador replacing the Nicaraguan rosado wrapper on the original blend. Only 83 [...]

Review: Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch No. 4 Oscuro

As the tidal wave of buzz about new releases for the IPCPR 2012 trade show was steadily building, La Flor Dominicana released, somewhat quietly, a new take on the Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch No. 4, an oscuro version. Oscuro, which simply means dark, is a word in the cigar industry that doesn’t have the [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana TAA 2012 Air Bender Maduro Torpedo

During the IPCPR show in 2011, La Flor Dominicana showed off a unique humidor, with a unique blend. The Casa del Tobaco was a scale model humidor of a tobacco curing barn that typically holds tobacco after it has been harvested. Inside were a total of 24 Airbender Maduros measuring 6 1/2 x 54, each [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Factory Press I

Already on its fourth release, La Flor Dominicana’s Factory Press line was first introduced at the 2005 RTDA show. Instead of me trying to regurgitate and change the wording of a Litto Gomez quote about the Factory Press line, I’ll just let you read it for yourself: For years I have been fascinated with our [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero Oscuro Natural A

Since its debut in 2003, La Flor Dominicana’s Double Ligero line has been home to some of the company’s more unique vitolas – including Litto Gomez’s signature Chisel vitola, the 2011 release of the 8 1/2 x 60 Digger, and today’s cigar, the A. A somewhat traditional format that is seeing a bit of a resurgence, [...]