The Consensus: 2011 Awards

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For the 2010 rendition of this concept, click here to see Brian Hewitt’s work. Before anyone starts, I started this long before Bill Berris posted his rendition of this a few days at Cigar Snapshot. (Bill’s serves as a interesting sample of this, although there are noticeable differences beyond population size.) The concept was simple, [...]

Review: Ashton VSG Estate Reserve Corona Gorda

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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 [...]

IPCPR 2011: Ashton

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A new size from Carlito and a new blend from Pepín. That’s the tough life that Robert Levin, head of Ashton, has to live with. Ashton’s trademark has been a steady supply of new releases, and this year was no different. Product releases were sensible, and I guess to an extent boring. After the jump, [...]

Weekly News (July 25, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: For those wanting your IPCPR recap, today is another day a disappointment. Friday will be the day where the “full” IPCPR list along with my thoughts get posted, so until then, another Weekly News lite. The explanation is simple: we had most of the IPCPR releases up in list form before the show, [...]

Weekly News (July 11, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: And here we are. One week out from the IPCPR trade show and things are reaching their peak. Last week saw a host of new product announcements and this week is likely to be no different. Later this week a massive post outlining what to expect at IPCPR should be up, I’d estimate [...]

Weekly News (April 18, 2011)

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Who said April was a slow cigar news month? After the jump is a massive news post with perhaps more release announcements than any other week besides IPCPR. I’m not sure what’s going on in the middle of May, but there sure are a lot of cigars coming out then. Anyways, after the jump, Viaje, [...]