General Cigar Co.

The M by Macanudo line got three new flavor extensions, including this dark rum version, this summer.

Dion Giolito of Illusione was given the opportunity to bring his blending skills to a brand he smoked during college before he was making his own cigars.

Macanudo Inspirado Jamao gets its name from two different growing regions: the Jamastran Valley in Honduras and Mao in the Dominican Republic. General Cigar Co. took a habano seed from the Jamastran Valley and planted in Mao, which is used for the wrapper of this cigar.

CAO’s latest cigar draws on a range of Brazilian-grown tobacco, using it for the wrapper, binder and part of the filler.

Brooks Whittington gave the original Cohiba Serie M Toro high marks, now it’s time to see if the Toro Extra, err, “Corona Gorda” size of the Miami-made Cohiba matches up.

The third addition to Diesel’s Sunday Gravy Series is the Rosamarino, a 6 x 50 Nicaraguan puro.

There aren’t many barber pole designs in the catalog of General Cigar Co. and its sister division, Forged Cigar Co., but the Partagas Añejo uses two different aged wrappers to create the distinctive look for a new release.

When it was released in March 2020, the Diesel Delirium was billed as the boldest Diesel to date. Patrick Lagreid sees how two years of rest has affected what was a pretty potent cigar.

The name “Firewalker” comes from a process called chincagre, where tobacco is buried in volcano soils. It’s the second cigar in General Cigar Co.’s CAO Arcana Series, which highlights unique methods used to create the tobaccos inside of the cigars.

Cigars that are the result of a collaboration can lead to interesting results. For this cigar, Robert Caldwell of Lost&Found partnered with Justin Andrews of STG, the parent company of General Cigar Co. The result: two cigars that are blended around the same components.

The Punch Fu Manchu is the fourth release under General Cigar Co.’s Punch brand that is inspired by Asian foods and other themes in celebration of Chinese Lunar New Year. This time, the cigar was inspired by Dr. Fu Manchu, a character created by English author Sax Rohmer in 1913.