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Redux: Cohiba Gran Reserva

Back in February of 2009, attendees of the XI Festival del Habano in Cuba were given unofficial prereleases of the now legendary Cohiba Gran Reserva. The actual release didn’t ship until November of that year. The Cohiba Gran Reserva was the first ever Gran Reserva released from Habanos S.A. consisting of the best Cuban tobacco [...]

Review: Yolanda Cañonazo

[This is the 3nd Cigar review in a new series on this site called "Custom Rolled Cubans", which as far as I know is the only series like this of it's kind on any of the major cigar review blogs (the first review in this series was on the Robaina "El Padrino" Farm Cigar, which [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Short Run 2010 Delirios (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know. Back in August, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, Jr. released his first cigar under his brand new company E.P. Carrillo, the E.P. Carrillo Edicion Inaugural 2009 (which incidentally we awarded our #5 Cigar of the Year last year), a fairly limited cigar (only 125,00 were released). E.P. Carrillo will be releasing [...]