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Review: Joya de Nicaragua CyB Lancero Fino (Prerelease)

There are a lot of best of/top cigars lists that appear at the end and beginning of each calendar year, I’d like to think one serves as a model a bit more than any other, The Consensus. It’s a list we’ve curated for the past two years, but an idea tried hundreds of times over in [...]

News: Joya de Nicaragua Adds Lancero Fino to CyB Line

The popular CyB by Joya de Nicaragua line will be getting its sixth vitola, the Lancero Fino. Joya de Nicaragua will give members of the Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) an opportunity to purchase the 7 x 38 cigar at next month’s annual meeting and convention in the Dominican Republic. “We have chosen TAA as [...]

IPCPR 2012: Drew Estate & Joya de Nicaragua

The focus of Drew Estate’s IPCPR is Joya de Nicaragua’s Cuenca y Blanco. The cigar, which is the work of José Blanco is the center of attention thanks to the lack of debut for Willy Herrera’s Herrera Estelí. Despite a year with less buzz on paper, the Drew Estate booth remains as busy as can [...]

Review: Joya de Nicaragua Cuenca y Blanco Lonsdale Club (Prerelease)

Ask any number of cigar smokers what their most anticipated cigar of the year is, and you will get any number of answers. But near the top of each of their lists will probably be the release of the Cuenca y Blanco, a cigar blended by none other than José Blanco and Joya de Nicaragua President Dr. Alejandro [...]

Weekly News (August 15, 2011)

Editor’s Note: We’re back. First, the server issue has been resolved and we are back up. This week I promise to actually fix the 2011 list and get a review up from both Charlie Stahl and myself. In other news, I’m back from Nicaragua. I’d like to thank Dr. Alejandro Martínez Cuenca of Joya de [...]