Review: San Lotano Oval Maduro Corona

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Late in 2011, rumors started flying around the web that A.J. Fernandez would be adding a Maduro wrapped version of its extremely popular Oval line. The new cigars have the exact same filler and binder as the norma Oval, but they replace the Ecuadorian Habano 2000 wrapper with a Habano Maduro one. Talking about the [...]

The Consensus: 2011 Awards

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For the 2010 rendition of this concept, click here to see Brian Hewitt’s work. Before anyone starts, I started this long before Bill Berris posted his rendition of this a few days at Cigar Snapshot. (Bill’s serves as a interesting sample of this, although there are noticeable differences beyond population size.) The concept was simple, [...]

Weekly News (November 28, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: The first story in the news this week is surrounding a new Rocky Patel, and it’s a bit controversial. I explain the details after the jump, but it’s led to a lot of speculation amongst manufacturers, consumers and retailers as to what really went on. Truth be told, there is one common denominator, [...]

Review: San Lotano Oval Petit Robusto

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It was almost a month ago that we started our 2011 IPCPR cigar reviews, and we are still going strong, there are so many cigars to find and review that it makes this time of year very time consuming, but fun! In continuing we arrive at today’s review, the new San Lotano Oval made by [...]

News: San Lotano Oval (Updated)

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A new shape, or at least that’s what I’m told. It’s got a Habano 2000 wrapper and aged Nicaraguan filler. The San Lotano Oval, which took five years to develop, will come from A.J. Fernandez’ Tabacalera Fernandez under the San Lotano moniker. It will be on display at the IPCPR show in July, hitting B&Ms [...]

Weekly News (May 30, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: Outside of the Monday news, this site has seen various formats in its news… For the next week, there will be at least a trial in more coverage to all stories, not just your Viaje and Tatuaje new releases. Feedback is always appreciated. Oh yeah, Lancero50 is in full swing, in case you [...]