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Review: Festival Del Habanos Marevas (2000)

So, here I am, the morning on the last day in Acapulco, Mexico, and I thought I would quickly do a Review with a cigar I have been wanting to smoke for a while, the Festival Del Habanos Marevas (2000)! This is my backdrop as I look out from my room veranda… …which I have [...]

Review: Ramón Allones Celestiales Finos (ER Asia Pacific 2009)

For those of you that don’t know, in 2009, Habanos S.A. released yet another Edición Regional, this time for the  Asia Pacific. The Exclusive Distributor of the Ramón Allones Celestiales Finos is Pacific Cigar and only 4,000 numbered boxes of 25 cigars were released (100,000 cigars total). This cigar, who’s official name is Britanicas, by the [...]

Review: Por Larrañaga Los Andes (ER Peru)

For those of you that don’t know there’s yet another entry in omnipresent Edición Regional series coming out of Cuba, the Por Larrañaga Los Andes is a 2009, exclusive to Peru that is one of the hardest to find REs I have found. The Exclusive Distributor is Vegas del Caribe, and there were 600 numbered [...]

Review: Montecristo Maravilla (2005)

This time, I will be sparking up a Montecristo Maravilla…Released in 2005 as part of the Colección Habanos (or Habanos Book Series), there were only 500 boxes of 20 cigars (or 10,000 total) produced for the entire world…So I think that qualifies as a somewhat rare smoke… The cigar itself is a HUGE monstrosity, measuring [...]

Reviews: Cohiba Gran Reserva (Prerelease)

As long as I have been smoking, I have not seen the Cuban hype machine go as crazy for a cigar as I have for the Cohiba Gran Reserva. Non Cubans are another matter, and for more info on that, see my Tatuaje Drac review. With just 5,000 boxes of 15 cigars to be released [...]

Review: El Rey del Mundo Especiales (ER Italia 2009)

I had high hopes for this cigar and it had everything going for it. Great looking stick with a light brown wrapper, an interesting shape (I am a sucker for a Piramide), and a great smell of hay and tobacco. Alas, I was to be disappointed. Cigar Reviewed: El Rey del Mundo Especiales Piramide (Edicion Regional [...]

Review: Bolívar 109 5th Avenida (ER Germany) (Prerelease)

(Editor’s Note: This cigar was reviewed blind (in other words, I had no idea what cigar it was while I was smoking it) for a Blind Smoking thread on the Brothers of the Leaf forum…In case you don’t know, every once in a while, a member of various forums puts together a thread where they [...]

Review: Por Larrañaga Magnificos (ER UK 2007)

Just like in Highlander, there can be only one. And that one could very well be the Por Larrañaga Magnifico. It has been called the most beautiful cigar in the world and I certainly agree with that sentiment. Specially produced in 2007 for Hunters & Frankau, the United Kingdom’s agent for Cuban cigars, it is [...]

Review: Partagas Serie D No.4 Reserva

This was a great friggin’ smoke. This is an incredibly difficult cigar to find. Even when it was released in 2005, there were only 5,000 boxes (100,000 cigars) total produced for the entire world market. Manufactured with tobacco leaves specially selected from the 2000 harvest and aged for three years prior to being rolled, the [...]

Review: Ramón Allones Phoenicio (ER Libano 2008)

Oh, I can hear you now, “another Edición Regional review; what is the point?” Well, I know there are what seems like a thousand REs (and LEs as well) coming out of Cuba these days, and while I am right there with you on the seemingly overwhelming numbers, there ARE a few gems in the multitude, [...]