halfwheel

Review: Arturo Fuente Añejo No.77 “Sand Shark”

For those of you that don’t know… The Fuente “Shark” vitola of cigars is one of the most recognizable sizes of cigars on the planet…It is a Round to Square shape, with the cap being a more normal rounded cap, but as the cigar progresses to the foot, the shape gradually squares up until it [...]

Review: Romeo y Julieta Museum Edition Fazzino

Today we will be looking at a cigar that was released in 2008, the Romeo y Julieta Museum Edition. Released in limited quantities (2,000 humidors of 36 cigars or 72,000 total cigars) this cigar was not cheap, costing $30 each. A 6 x 54 cigar in an elegant looking brushed glass tube placed in a [...]

Review: OpusX El Scorpion (Natural)

Today we will be taking a look at a unique OpusX cigar vitola, the El Scorpion. As with the Chili Pepper (which we reviewed here not too long ago) this cigar comes in the 22 Count CFC Humidor released every year by Prometheus for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. Here are a few pics of [...]

Review: Cigar Family 10th Anniversary (CF10)

[Editor's Note: This cigar was gifted to me and smoked with Luke (Benzopyrene on the boards) while sitting on his back porch at his house in Houston, Texas. The box that is in the photos is also his. He also opened up a bottle of Havana Club "Gran Reserva" that we partook in while smoking, [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Salomon Maduro

In Early 2009, Litto Gomez of La Flor Dominicana fame decided to release a monster of a cigar called the La Flor Dominicana Salomon, a huge 7 x 64 perfecto shaped cigar with a Nicaraguan sun grown wrapper and filler from the Dominican Republic. The cigar was released to rave reviews and high ratings, and [...]

Review: Guillermo León Belicoso (Prerelease)

[Editor's Note: This is a review of a Prerelease cigar that was released at the IPCPR Show in New Orleans a few weeks ago. Most of the time, we in the blog community are only given one sample of any cigar that is released at the show, and so most of the reviews in this [...]

Review: Litto Gomez Diez Chisel Puro (2008)

The Litto Gomez Chisel was introduced in 2003, and since then has become a favorite vitola among cigars smokers. Once you see the unique shape you will know why. There are 4 other vitolas in this line, and they all consist of tobacco grown on Litto’s farm in the Dominican Republic. Anyone who knows tobacco [...]

Review: AVO Heritage Short Robusto (Prerelease)

This year at the IPCPR Show in New Orleans, AVO introduced a brand new line of cigars, supposedly with a fuller, stronger profile…Dubbed the AVO Heritage, it will be made using the exact same Ecuadorian sun-grown wrapper as the Avo 2009 Compañero, as well as a Dominican binder and a blend of five different Dominican [...]

Redux: Coronado Maduro Corona Especial

The La Flor Dominicana Coronado Maduro did not exactly take the cigar community by storm when it was released in mid-2009. Intended as an experiment of sorts, it the cigar is the exact same blend as the regular Coronado by La Flor, which I still love to smoke, with a Maduro wrapper from Ecuador replacing [...]

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 [...]