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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 [...]

Weekly News (January 7, 2013)

Editor’s note: It only took one correction with the year. We launched some big things yesterday: [The Newsletter] & The halfwheel 25. The Consensus tomorrow. Before: Ten Questions for 2013 and the Packaging Top 10. Edgar Hoill Cigars Launch From Fabricas Unidas — Details here.  Pete Johnson Shows Off 10th Anniversary Tatuaje Black Label Corona [...]

(The) Contest Day 25: Custom Blend by Charlie (Joya de Nicaragua)

It only seemed fitting to give you one last custom blend, since we’ve already put up both a Cigar Safari (Drew Estate) and Joya de Nicaragua custom from Brooks, and only the former from me. I blended this to be stronger than flavorful, simply out of the exercise of doing it. Lots of good tobacco [...]

News: Drew Estate Slates MUWAT Digital Son 6 for Outland Cigars

As noted by Cigar Coop and Leaf and Grape, the My Uzi Weighs a Ton line will be receiving a sixth vitola in 2013, a 5 x 42 Corona named “Digital Son 6.” The cigar will be the second retailer exclusive for the MUWAT line with Digital Son 6 headed to Charlotte, N.C.’s Outland Cigars. Previously, [...]

Weekly News (October 8, 2012)

Editor’s Note: I was searching through e-mail earlier this week and ran across some e-mails from last October when Brooks, Steve Valle, Patrick Mize, Charlie Stahl and myself were working on moving over and editing nearly a thousand posts from SmokingStogie and TheCigarFeed, all this in virtual secrecy while continuing to run both sites. At [...]

News: Drew Estate Adds My Uzi Weighs A Ton +11

Drew Estate’s My Uzi Weighs A Ton Line will get its second non-60 RG size at IPCPR 2012, the MUWAT +11. Like the original three sizes of MUWAT, the new 5 1/2 x 52 Parejo will come in 10 count packaging. MSRP for the +11 is set at $7.95 or $79.50 for the 10-count bundle. [...]

A Visit to La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate

Editor’s Note: As you know, Brooks and I were amongst many bloggers invited down to Drew Estate a few weeks ago. Both Brooks and I brought our cameras, he used his (fortunately) and I didn’t, again, fortunately. On a personal note, there are very  few halfwheel posts I actually have anticipation towards seeing, this is [...]

Redux: Joya de Nicaragua Cabinetta Serie No.13

I still believe the Joya de Nicaragua Cabinetta Serie No. 13 (Lancero) was one of the quietest releases of 2010. When I reviewed last June as part of Lancero50 — most had never heard of the fifth size of Cabinetta, since then, things have changed a bit. Actually a lot has changed. Here’s what I [...]

Weekly News (May 21, 2012)

Editor’s Note: It’s been a hectic week. It’s probably going to get more crazy, but the news. La Flor Dominicana in 2012 — Details here. Quesada Makes House of Horvath 80th — Details here. Davidoff Puro d’Oro Gets New Size & Bands — Story here. Viaje’s 5th Anniversary — Details here. Nestor Miranda Grand Reserve [...]