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Review: Davidoff Golden Band Awards 2012

In mid-July, just a few short weeks before the 2012 IPCPR convention and trade show kicked off in Orlando, Davidoff announced a new addition to the festivities: the inaugural Golden Band Awards. From the website dedicated to the awards: The inaugural Davidoff Golden Band Award Show will honor those Appointed Merchants that truly embody the [...]

Review: Second Growth

On May 26, 2010, a new cigar blended by TABADOM’s Hendrik Kelner for alcohol importer Eric Hanson debuted at Club Macanudo in New York City. Second Growth is a 7 7/8 inch x 54 cigar that uses a blend that was originally intended for use in a cigar to commemorate Hendrik Jr.’s 36th birthday. It [...]

Review: Davidoff Belicoso Supremo Limited White Edition 2011

Released at the 2011 IPCPR trade show, the Davidoff LE 2011 made its way to retailers in late September 2011, joining another limited release from the company, the Davidoff 100 Years Geneva, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of Zino Davidoff’s parents’ arrival in to Switzerland, where they opened up a tobacco shop a year later. [...]

Review: Paul Garmirian PG Corona Grande (1995)

For those of you that don’t know… Today is the first non-Cuban cigar that will qualify as “vintage” as per our standards and it comes from Dr. Paul Garmirian. Paul Garmirian has been around the cigar business for a while and may well be one of the most interesting cigar brands you have never heard [...]

Review: AVO Legacy

The list of AVO Limited Editions is a lengthy one and the annual early spring birthday release is one of the more anticipated yearly traditions in the cigar world. It started in 2002 with the famed AVO 22 and would continue with notable standouts like the AVO LE05 in 2005. There have been all shapes [...]

Review: Davidoff OVTC 35th

For those of you that don’t know… In April of 2006, the Old Virginia Tobacco Co. celebrated its 35th Anniversary with a huge party that had many of the top cigar makers at the time in attendance. Some of the cigar makers decided to produce specific sizes or blends to mark the occasion, and the [...]

Weekly News (September 12, 2011)

Editor’s Note: And we shall call this, the one where everything has been delayed. After the jump is news on four major releases that have all been pushed back for a variety of reasons. Three of them have been pushed back to the month of October, which by all accounts will be the biggest month [...]

Review: Davidoff 100 Years Geneva Robusto (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In 2006, Davidoff released a three cigars created in honor of (what would have been) Zino Davidoff’s 100th birthday. All three cigars were the same blend, but in very different vitolas: a Robusto (5 x 50), a Diademas Finas (6 3/4 X 50) and a Davidoff Diademas (9 [...]

Press Release: Paul Garmirian Artisan’s Passion

As explained yesterday, the newest Paul Garmirian line made an appearance a bit before the show. After the jump, the official word and pictures from the Garmirian family. Made by Henke Kelner at Tabadom’s Occidental factory, this is quietly one of my most anticipated releases of the year to try. A few retailers have these [...]

Review: Cusano 15th Anniversary Lancero

It’s another one of these attempts to find a cigar that many never knew existed. I think from that aspect, the Cusano 15th is probably a great candidate. One size, a small company and little info. It came at the end of Dom Rey’s independence, partially helping the relative quiet nature of this — so [...]