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Review: OpusX Chili Pepper

In 2004, Arturo Fuente teamed up with Prometheus to introduce the OpusX 22 box set. The set included 22 OpusX cigars, one of which had never been officially sold in retail settings before, the Fuente Fuente OpusX Chili Pepper. Various occasions had seen the cigar handed out privately, but it had never been offered for [...]

Review: Tatuaje Outlaw

For those of you that don’t know. In June of 2010, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars announced he would be releasing another one of his Single Store Limited Series (now known as the exclusivo series). This time for Outlaw Cigars in Kansas City, Missouri, and their Bad to the Bone event. Despite quite a bit [...]

Review: Reynaldo Lancero

Reynaldo Jimenez is one of the major custom rollers who plies his craft in Cuba. The main location he works out of is the Hotel Conde de Villanueva, which is the former mansion of Claudio Martínez de Pinillos, Count of Villanueva, the leader of Cuban Creole society in the nineteenth century. The building dates back [...]

Review: Liga Privada T52 Double Corona

When Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate fame told me he was sending me a few samples to smoke and review, I said “awesome, can’t wait!” Inside the package I received from Drew Estate were some samples of a cigar called the JD4, which we will get into at a later date when we review it, and [...]

Review: Stanford’s 90th Diamond Crown MAXIMUS

For those of you that don’t know. In 2006, the J.C. Newman Company introduced the Stanford’s 90th Diamond Crown Maximus cigar to pay tribute to Stanford Newman, the firm’s reigning icon, who turned 90 in June 2006, making him the oldest living cigar professional in the business at the time, and who is one of [...]

Review: Ramón Allones Belicosos (ER Germany 2010)

Continuing with the ever popular Cuban Edición Regional series, Ramón Allones first ER release of the year is a Belicoso for the Alemania region.  According to cubancigarwebsite.com: The tobacco blend for this German Regional Edition is made with specifications from the 1950s. The first old style Havana cigar made in decades. It’s a 5 1/2 x [...]

Review: Lords of England (1920s)

For those of you that don’t know. There have been quite a few cigar companies that have gone out of business in the last 200 years (especially in Cuba), but even I was not aware of how many there were. Perelman’s Pocket Cyclopedia of Havana Cigars says it thusly: New brands have been introduced almost [...]

Review: Tatuaje “The Frank”

In 2008 Pete Johnson of Tatuaje fame, with the help of a good friend, came up with the idea for a very special Halloween cigar release. Pete decided that each year around October 31st he would release a cigar based on a classic monster of his choosing. For the first release, dubbed “The Frank” (after [...]

Review: Pinar Del Río BOTL.org Small Batch 2010

For those of you that don’t know. About 2 months ago, it was announced that Pinar Del Rio would be releasing a very limited cigar run to be sold through (and only too members of) one of the main cigar forums that I frequent, BOTL.org (or Brothers of the Leaf). The owner of Pinar Del [...]

Review: Camacho Liberty 2005

For those of you that don’t know. In July of 2002, the Eiroa family, owners of Camacho cigars, released a Honduran cigar to celebrate the freedom they had found in America. This specific cigar came to be known as the Camacho Liberty series. The original 2002 Liberty had a production run of only 25,000 cigars [...]