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Review: Juan López Selección No.3 (ER Benelux 2010)

Today we will be taking a look at another cigar in our Edición Regional series, the Juan López Selección No.3 2010 Benelux. This is one of two Edición Regional releases by Juan López in 2010 the other being the Selección No.4 Pirámides for the Asia Pacific Region. Often times each year companies have many regionals [...]

Review: Punch Serie D’Oro No.1 (ER U.K. 2008)

Today we will be taking a look at another Edición Regional for our Weekly Series, the Punch Serie D’Oro No.1 Edición Regional Reino Unido (2008). Only 1,210 boxes of this cigar were made and come in boxes of 25 cigars (30,250 cigars total produced). They come in a box made to replicate a box from the [...]

Review: Fonseca No.4 (ER Benelux 2010)

Today we will be taking a look at the very first Edición Regional cigar for the Fonseca line of cigars. Fonseca is a current pre-revolution brand that currently has only four Standard Production cigars to its lineup. The Fonseca brand was registered in 1907 and is made up of mild to medium body cigars. All [...]

Review: Partagas Serie D No.1 (EL 2004)

Today we are smoking a very special cigar by my absolute favorite Cuban cigar brand. A lot of Edición Limitadas have gotten a bad rap simply because they don’t usually warrant the price tag. A lot of people, myself included, would consider them to be bit of marketing genius on Habanos’ part by making you believe [...]

Review: Vegas Robaina Marshal (ER Adriatico 2008)

For those of you that don’t know, the story of the Vegas Robaina Marshal, which is the Regional Edition Release for the Adriatic Region in 2008, is one of the most interesting, and honestly, confusing, to come out of Cuba in a long, long time. It might get a bit confusing, so stick with me. [...]

Review: Ramón Allones Lusitanos (ER Portugal 2010)

Ramón Allones released their first Edición Regional series of the year a few months ago and we enjoyed quite a bit. The second Ramón Allones release this year in the Regional Edición series is the Petit Edmundo sized Lusitanos for the Portugal Region.  If you know me, you know that I have been nothing but [...]

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: Punch Diademas Extra (ER Italia 2009)

For those of you that don’t know, in 2008, the Punch Diademas Extra (Edición Regional Italia), part of the Regional Edition Series out of Cuba was scheduled to be released. Unfortunately, there were significant delays, reportedly due to the fact that the first batch of gold foil used the wrap the cigar was lost, the [...]

Review: El Rey del Mundo Choix de L’Epoque (ER U.K. 2009)

For those of you that don’t know… In 2009, El Rey del Mundo released the Choix de L’Epoque, (a French name, translating “The Choice of the Age”, which honestly seems a bit pretentious to me in retrospect) the UK Regional Edition exclusively Distributed by Hunters & Frankau. There were 2,000 dress boxes of 25 produced, [...]

Review: Montecristo C (EL 2003)

I smoked and reviewed this cigar while in Acapulco, Mexico photographing Luke’s (“Benzopyrene” on the boards) wedding. He had been saving this up for both of us to smoke (we each had a sample of the cigar) and we reviewed it together while we sipped rum and listened to the beach. For those of you [...]