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Review: La Gloria Cubana Medaille d’Or No.4

Last week I reviewed the discontinued La Gloria Cubana Medaille d’Or No.3. This week we take a look at its shorter, fatter sibling, the Medaille d’Or No.4. Unlike the MdO No.3, this cigar is still officially in production. Unfortunately though you’re going to have a very hard time finding them in stock anywhere. After having [...]

Review: La Gloria Cubana Medaille d’Or No.3

The La Gloria Cubana marca is an old one, although not nearly the oldest marca still in existence today. Established in 1885 by the Sociedad Cabañas y Castro, the La Gloria Cubana name switched hands a few times and was even discontinued once in the 1900’s before being revived and rolled again at the Partagás [...]

Review: Hoyo de Monterrey Le Hoyo du Gourmet (1994)

Hoyo de Monterrey is not one of the more prolific Cuban brands even with its status of being one of Habanos’ Global Brands. That status places it amongst the likes of Cohiba, Montecristo, Partagás and Romeo y Julieta, meaning that it is one of Habanos’ larger distributed brands. The current rendition of Wikipedia’s history of [...]

Review: Macanudo Café Portofino

Say what? Macanudo makes a Lancero? And it comes in a tube? Well… sort of. It’s not a true El Laguito No. 1, it’s actually 7 x 34, a hair thicker than the Ninfas (7 x 33), a Slim Panatela. It’s also not a cigar that you’d really expect to be on most cigar blogs, [...]