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Review: Quesada The Blender’s Sampler Robusto

Earlier, we broke news on The Quesada Blender’s Sampler, a new limited edition Robusto sampler from Quesada and its U.S. distribution arm, SAG Imports.  To recap: SAG Imports, the distribution arm of Quesada, is set to release its most popular blends in the form of a special sampler. The Quesada Blender’s Sampler will feature eight Robustos, [...]

Review: Quesada Q d’etat Daga

In December of 2011, Quesada announced the Q d’etat line, a series of limited editions meant to bring attention to unfair taxation and overall mistreatment of the cigar industry by the government. Says the original press release: The brand is intended to create awareness of the dangers increased government regulation and taxation will produce, specifically [...]

Redux: Quesada Q d’etat Molotov

I seem to be in the minority about the early February release of the Quesada Q d’etat, the Molotov. For me, the inaugural release of the Q d’etat release did not live up to the strides Quesada had made with the España, Oktoberfest and Tributo. While I found plenty of flavor, it wasn’t very appealing [...]

Review: Quesada Oktoberfest Kaiser Ludwig

Back in August of 2011, Quesada released a blend that was specifically blended to be paired with an Oktoberfest style beer. Appropriately dubbed the Oktoberfest, the cigar line was first released in two different vitolas at the IPCPR show in Las Vegas: the 6 x 65 Über and the 5 1/2 by 52 Bavarian. For 2012, it was [...]

Review: Quesada Jalapa Belicoso

At the 2011 ProCigar festival in the Dominican Republic, the Quesada family showed off its newest creation—the Quesada Selección España. As implied by the name, the cigar was created specifically for the Spanish market and actually made to compete alongside offerings from Habanos S.A. I described the basics last year: In February of this past [...]

Review: Nat Sherman Timeless Collection No. 16

At the 2011 IPCPR trade show, Nat Sherman showed off the first of its new brands under the direction of its then newly-appointed executive director for retail and brand development, Michael Herklots. While no new product was offered for sale, Herklots gave out a variety of test samples of the company’s newest project, Timeless. At [...]

Review: Quesada Q d’etat Howitzer

Back in December SAG Imports announced a new Quesada line called the Q d’etat which was created to help raise awareness about the government’s involvement in cigar regulation. The first release in the line was the Molotov, which Charlie reviewed here. Soon after the Molotov’s release the announcement was made about a Memorial Day release [...]

Review: Quesada q d’etat Molotov

In December of 2011, SAG Imports/Quesada announced a new project that would be the company’s first cigar solely created at Quesada’s new factory and an effort to raise awareness for cigar rights. Manuel “Manolo” Quesada’s company would create the q d’etat line as a way to protest increased restrictions on cigar smoking and higher taxes [...]

The Consensus: 2011 Awards

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, [...]

News: Nat Sherman to Ship Timeless Collection

Nat Sherman is set to ship the Timeless Collection in around a month’s time. Michael Herklots indicated that the new line is just waiting on boxes to be completed and plans to begin shipping Timeless to retailers nationwide either “late January or early February.” Timeless is made by Quesada at their newly completed factory in [...]