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Review: OpusX Toast Across America Figurado (2012)

Every year for the past 10 years, Fuente has partnered with J.C. Newman to produce the Toast Across America release for the pair’s Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. The cigars, which come in a coffin, including one OpusX and one Newman product, for $50 each with the proceeds from the sales benefit the foundation. Patrick’s review of the Diamond Crown [...]

Review: Diamond Crown Julius Caeser Toast Across America Figurado (2012)

2012 marks the 10th year of the Toast Across America, Arturo Fuente and the J.C. Newman Cigar Co.’s limited edition two-pack for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. The charity, a venture between the two companies and families, aims to provide a significant humanitarian impact to communities in the Dominican Republic resulting in a better quality of [...]

Redux: Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story Maduro (2011)

The Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story Maduro has been one of the hardest cigars to find over the last fifteen years. That changed a bit last year, when it was introduced in very limited quantities at the IPCPR show in Las Vegas in 2011. As they have done with other cigars in the past, Fuente [...]

Review: Oliva Serie V Melanio Figurado

The last time a new Oliva line was introduced it was 2007 at the Houston RTDA, now five years later the Oliva Serie V Reserva Melanio is set to debut at IPCPR 2012. It’s a cigar that has been in the work for years, something we fully chronicled a few weeks ago after the cigar [...]

Review: Padilla/Studio Tobac Figurado (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In March of 2011, the (Oliva) StudioTobac Executive Board approved a request from Padilla Cigars to produce a Limited Edition full-bodied, Nicaraguan cigar that Padilla would distribute. This is the first (of presumably many) collaborations that the Studio Tobac team will produce. Says Studio Tobac’s John Gazerro: “Even [...]