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Review: E.P. Carrillo Elencos Don Rubino

Today we will be taking a look at a cigar we had planned on reviewing back when it came out in April, but decided to hold it for this week, the E.P. Carrillo Elencos! In Late 2010 E.P. Carrillo, released their Edición Limitada, a 6 x 54 Double Robusto sporting a Brazilian Habano wrapper with [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Core Line Maduro Club 52 (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Back in the cigar boom of the 1990′s, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. was extremely well known for his cigars that he blended for La Gloria Cubana and the sticks with Maduro wrappers were some of his most popular and noted cigars. Everyone knew that E.P. Carrillo, Ernesto’s new company, would [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Short Run 2011 Cañonazos

  The E.P. Carrillo Short Run is back for another year. First, a quick look back at the “Short Run 2010.” The Short Run 2010 production was approximately 108,000 cigars featuring an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, Nicaraguan Criollo binder, and Nicaraguan and Dominican filler   The Short Run 2011 shares a couple of similarities with its [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo New Wave Connecticut Divinos (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… After the success they have had with their Short Run, Core Line and Edición Limitada 2010, E.P. Carrillo really wanted to branch out and produce a milder, more flavorful cigar with a very competitive price point… Enter the New Wave Connecticut blend…Using a Connecticut wrapper from Ecuador, a binder [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Core Line Club 52

Today we will be taking at another cigar from an incredibly hot cigar company, E.P. Carrillo which is owned and operated by none other than Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. the man, the legend behind La Gloria Cubana, El Rico Habano, and the owner of El Credito. Over the years Ernesto has focused more on a family [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Edición Limitada 2010

I am sure many of you are very familiar with Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr., The man behind El Credito Cigar Company and most importantly La Gloria Cuban cigars. La Gloria Cubana has experienced many years at the top of the cigar world. Ernesto has always been known for putting out remarkable cigars.  Despite that a few [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Short Run 2010 Delirios (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know. Back in August, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, Jr. released his first cigar under his brand new company E.P. Carrillo, the E.P. Carrillo Edicion Inaugural 2009 (which incidentally we awarded our #5 Cigar of the Year last year), a fairly limited cigar (only 125,00 were released). E.P. Carrillo will be releasing [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Edición Inaugural 2009

It is that time again and with the IPCPR Convention going on there will be a lot of previews of new sticks that will be coming to the market. I opened my mail last week, and low and behold, there was a package which included a preproduction of the brand new E.P. Carrillo Edición Inaugural 2009 from [...]