Brooks Whittington

S.T.Dupont, in all of its glorious Francophilia, is not actually owned by a French person. In the late 1980s, Dickson Concepts, the company of Hong Kong…

Early last month, MBombay Cigars began shipping the newest vitola in its Classic line, the 6 x 50 Torpedo. However, the seemingly routine release had…

As the song goes, everything old is new again, and such is the case with a new release from E.P. Carrillo. The new line is named Elencos,…

In 2014, Davidoff of Geneva USA expanded its urban art-themed Zino Platinum Collector’s Edition series, which featured a collaboration with a different urban artist who supplied…

While store exclusive releases are nothing new in the cigar industry, store exclusive releases in another country are quite a bit more rare. Such is…

A new Edición Limitada from Habanos S.A. is almost always a big deal, but add the fact that it is the first Edición Limitada release for the…

Last month, Chogüí’s lone regular production line added its third vitola. The line is named after the box number of Chogüí’s original Primera Edición—number 277—that was…

There are not many times that I can do two redux reviews spanning six years of cigars that were purchased at the same time, but…

In 2005, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. celebrated its 110th anniversary by releasing a limited number of humidors filled with very unique cigars. Each humidor contained 40…

Sometime in the 1980’s Cubatabaco—the predecessor of Habanos S.A., which did not exist at that time—gave a special license to Tabacalera Spain, now known as Altadis,…

In 2007, Gurkha Cigars launched the Cellar Reserve brand with a blend made entirely of Dominican tobacco. The line was expanded in 2011, when the company released the…