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Press Release: PG Symphony 20 – Limited Edition – Belicoso, Bombones Extra; Now Available

July 30, 2012 (McLean, VA) — Paul Garmirian Inc. is pleased to announce that the PG Symphony 20 – Limited Edition, is now available in 2 additional sizes: Belicoso (6 ¼ x 52) and Bombones Extra (3 ½ x 46). They will be released at the IPCPR Trade Show in Orlando, August 2-6. Paul Garmirian [...]

Review: AVO Limited Edition 2012 La Trompeta

As has become the tradition, Avo Uvezian’s birthday brought another limited edition cigar, this time in the form of a trumpet, or so was the intention. This year’s version was named La Trompeta, the trumpet, featuring three small circles on the top of cigar to mimic the trumpet keys. The press release went as follows: [...]

Review: Paul Garmirian PG Corona Grande (1995)

For those of you that don’t know… Today is the first non-Cuban cigar that will qualify as “vintage” as per our standards and it comes from Dr. Paul Garmirian. Paul Garmirian has been around the cigar business for a while and may well be one of the most interesting cigar brands you have never heard [...]

Redux: Paul Garmirian Reserva Exclusiva Gran Panatela

Today is the first review of our Monday morning tradition at halfwheel, redux reviews. For more info about redux reviews and all of other review types, click here. Today’s redux review is of a cigar that was part of Lancero50 and was the series’ largest surprise, the Paul Garmirian Reserva Exclusiva Gran Panatela. I wrote this [...]

Review: Davidoff 100 Years Geneva Robusto (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In 2006, Davidoff released a three cigars created in honor of (what would have been) Zino Davidoff’s 100th birthday. All three cigars were the same blend, but in very different vitolas: a Robusto (5 x 50), a Diademas Finas (6 3/4 X 50) and a Davidoff Diademas (9 [...]

Review: Paul Garmirian Reserva Exclusiva Gran Panatela

Perhaps the least talked about cigar out of the TABADOM stables? Yet, it seems that was some of the intention, or at least from what I can tell. Unlike AVO, another cigar made for a cigar connoisseur by TABADOM, Paul Garmirian functions independent of Davidoff, the main staple of Henke Kenler’s operations in the Dominican [...]