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Review: Partagás Dunhill Selección Suprema No. 281 (1950s)

About two years ago, a good friend of mine called me up and told me he had purchased a sealed box of Dunhill Selección Supremas that he had never heard of or seen before. He asked me to take some photographs of the box, and I told him I would be happy to. In fact, he [...]

Review: Flor de A. Allones Dunhill Selección Suprema No.50

Today we will be looking at a very old Dunhill made cigar. Some of you may know that Dunhill not only made cigars for themselves but also had exclusive cigars made under other brands lineups. Originally Dunhill had 3 exclusive brands, Don Cándido, Don Alfredo and Flor Del Punto which were all Dunhill brand cigars. [...]

Review: Ramón Allones Lusitanos (ER Portugal 2010)

Ramón Allones released their first Edición Regional series of the year a few months ago and we enjoyed quite a bit. The second Ramón Allones release this year in the Regional Edición series is the Petit Edmundo sized Lusitanos for the Portugal Region.  If you know me, you know that I have been nothing but [...]

Review: Partagás Dunhill Selección Suprema No.150 (1979)

For those of you that don’t know… In the annals of cigar history, Dunhill is considered to have produced some of the best sticks of all time… The cigars that Dunhill produced are legendary, and it has been theorized that the reason the cigars were so good was that Dunhill was using superior tobacco in [...]

Review: Partagas Serie D No.4 Reserva

This was a great friggin’ smoke. This is an incredibly difficult cigar to find. Even when it was released in 2005, there were only 5,000 boxes (100,000 cigars) total produced for the entire world market. Manufactured with tobacco leaves specially selected from the 2000 harvest and aged for three years prior to being rolled, the [...]

Review: Ramón Allones Phoenicio (ER Libano 2008)

Oh, I can hear you now, “another Edición Regional review; what is the point?” Well, I know there are what seems like a thousand REs (and LEs as well) coming out of Cuba these days, and while I am right there with you on the seemingly overwhelming numbers, there ARE a few gems in the multitude, [...]