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Review: My Father Atlantic 15th Anniversary Robusto

On February 9th, 2012, site sponsor Atlantic Cigar Co. put up for sale the next of their four part 15th Anniversary Series. For the first release, Viaje was commissioned to create a special cigar and for the second, My Father was chosen and decided to make a box-pressed Robusto.   _______________________________________________________________________   Atlantic Cigar described [...]

Review: Quesada q d’etat Molotov

In December of 2011, SAG Imports/Quesada announced a new project that would be the company’s first cigar solely created at Quesada’s new factory and an effort to raise awareness for cigar rights. Manuel “Manolo” Quesada’s company would create the q d’etat line as a way to protest increased restrictions on cigar smoking and higher taxes [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo NWC Short Run 2012 Invictos (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In June of 2010, the relatively new E.P. Carrillo released the first in what has become an annual tradition for the company, the Short Run. Each year, E.P. Carrillo produces the same 3 sizes in close to the same numbers, but with different blends. The 2010 version used [...]

Review: Cabaiguan WCD 120 REDUX

In 2007, Pete Johnson released a limited quantity of a special Cabaiguan to commemorate the 120th anniversary of W. Curtis Draper. Five years later, W. Curtis Draper commissioned four different cigars from four different brands to commemorate their 125th anniversary. Pete Johnson’s Havana Cellars was one of the four selected and the cigar chosen was the [...]

Review: My Father Le Bijou 1922 Federal Cigar 91st Cervantes Connecticut

A few weeks ago we broke the news on Federal Cigar’s 91st anniversary cigar, the My Father Le Bijou 1922 Cervantes. Back then, Rick Gadway thought that the cigars would be arriving to New Hampshire on February 1st. Turns out, they showed up a day early, but nonetheless, the cigars are in stock. Rather than [...]

Review: My Father Le Bijou 1922 Federal Cigar 91st Cervantes Maduro

Like last year’s Tatuaje 109, Rick Gadway had two cigars made for Federal Cigar’s 91st anniversary, one in Ecuadorian Connecticut and one in a Connecticut Broadleaf. The former, like the Tatuaje 109 Reserva, was only offered to local customers; the latter, like the 109 Rosado, is being sold to the general public. We broke the [...]

Introducing halfwheel Contests

So, we have a lot of different contests running this week. I can’t promise that we are going to have four different giveaways running every week, I would expect that we have contests running on a pretty regular basis at halfwheel. With that being said, it’s probably best that we introduce the standard contest rules, [...]

Review: OpusX ForbiddenX 13 Nacimiento 1912

For those of you that don’t know… Midway through December of 2011, some interesting boxes of Fuente products started showing up at various stores across the country with nearly no forewarning at all. Almost nothing was known about these cigars when they were released and people on the boards and Twitter had a field day [...]

Review: Viaje Platino Samurai (2012)

For those of you that don’t know… As with a lot of his Limited Edition releases, Andre Farkas of Viaje Cigars has once again released the “Samurai”, a limited edition Corona Gorda in the Platino blend. _______________________________________________________________________   This is what I said about the Samurai in the review in 2010: In 2009, Viaje started the [...]

Review: Regius Robusto

For those of you that don’t know… I recently became aware that Regius Cigars were now available in the United States for the first time, and it just so happens that the official distributer is right here in Dallas at Sacred Cigars, allowing me to pick up my review sticks, instead of having them shipped [...]