Review: Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ Salomon

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It’s July 22nd, which means it’s about one cigar and one story—the Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ and Jeremiah Cruz Jr. We’ve explained it a few times before, including a year ago when I reviewed the JJ Lancero: In 2005, the newcomer Don “Pepín” García introduced the Series JJ, a cigar that he worked on with [...]

Review: Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ Little Robusto

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On December 11, 2011, Jerry Cruz of Stogie Review fame announced a limited run of Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ would be produced in a never before seen vitola. Dubbed the Little Robusto, it is a 4 /12 x 50 Short Robusto made in honor of Jerry’s son, who died of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death [...]

Weekly News (February 27, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: This past week halfwheel launched its own blog. While the posts will not appear on the front page, they will show up if you subscribe to the RSS feed and/or get updates via e-mail. As explained here, the purpose of the blog will be to better have a dialogue with the readers about [...]

Weekly News (December 5, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: December has arrived, and it is quite obvious. There’s not a whole lot of public news, but projects are beginning to come together for the upcoming year. There’s not a tremendous amount of news, and I suspect that will continue through early next year. A few things ship this week and next week [...]

Review: Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ Lancero

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In 2005, the newcomer Don “Pepín” García introduced the Series JJ, a cigar that he worked on with his son Jaime. (JJ comes from their two first names: José and Jaime.) It would quickly become the most popular brand for El Rey de los Habanos, the first of Pepín’s company. While the Nicaraguan puro was [...]

Lanceros Collection by Don Pepín García

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Today, Lancero50 comes to an end. (It comes to an end on time, something I consider a huge accomplishment.) I figured there was really no other way to close this out than to review all of the Lanceros Collection by Don Pepín Garcia, also known as the Pepín Lancero Sampler or Pepín Holiday Lancero Sampler. [...]