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Redux: El Centurion Lancero

The El Centurion Lancero was the last cigar of the Lancero50 project and was one of the entries most had no clue about. Overall, the El Centurion line is one of the least talked about Pepín creations, even as it came on the tail end of his plethora of releases in the early part of [...]

Redux: Padilla 1932 Oscuro Torpedo

Originally released in 2007, the aptly named Padilla 1932 Oscuro used the Pepín rolled 1932 blend, and covered it with a then five year-old Nicaraguan Corojo Oscuro wrapper. Only 300 boxes of 45 cigars each were released,  each of which included 15 of three different vitolas: Churchill, Robusto and Torpedo. Here is what I said about the Padilla 1932 [...]

Redux: Room 101 LTD Namakubi Papi Chulo

Matt Booth’s Room 101 introduced their third major line at the IPCPR show in Las Vegas in 2011. Dubbed Namakubi, the brand features an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper and uses Dominican and Honduran tobacco for the filler and binder. There are 100,000 total cigars released among five different vitolas. They are: Papi Chulo — 4 x 42 [...]

Redux: Diamond Crown Julius Caeser Toro

First introduced at the IPCPR show in 2009, but not actually released until mid 2010, the Diamond Crown Julius Caeser is named and produced in honor of the company’s founder, J.C. Newman. There were some problems with some of the early samples and it was later learned that several thousand had to be destroyed. Interestingly, [...]

Redux: La Caridad del Cobre Javelin Maduro

Last year, after the conclusion of Lancero50, I reviewed a prerelease version of the newest La Caridad del Cobre, the Javelin Maduro. The Javelin was unlike the fifty Lanceros that I had reviewed from April to May, most notably in shape. Here’s how I described the cigar last year: A few months ago I made [...]

Redux: Cohiba Gran Reserva

Back in February of 2009, attendees of the XI Festival del Habano in Cuba were given unofficial prereleases of the now legendary Cohiba Gran Reserva. The actual release didn’t ship until November of that year. The Cohiba Gran Reserva was the first ever Gran Reserva released from Habanos S.A. consisting of the best Cuban tobacco [...]

Redux: Liga Privada Único Serie L40

At the 2011 IPCPR trade show, Drew Estate unveiled their Lancero, the Liga Privada Ünico Serie L40. Like pretty much everything Drew Estate had at the trade show (Undercrown, Feral Flying Pig, Liga Privada A, MUWAT and extensions to Natural), it wasn’t a surprise. L40 had been floating around in prerelease forms in larger capacity [...]

Redux: Illusione ~Síngulare 2010~ Phantom

The Illusione ~Síngulare 2010~ Phantom is a 6 × 50 Nicaraguan puro rolled at the Raíces Cubanas factory in Honduras that was limited to 1,000 boxes of 15 back in 2010. There was supposed to be a limited edition released every year, but backorders in tobacco delayed the 2011 version. However, for 2012, the LE project [...]

Redux: Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin

We are looking at one of the best Tatuaje releases of all time, the Pork Tenderloin. Big brother to the Porkchop, it is a blend that itself has spawned at least two more great cigars, including the legendary Tatuaje Barclay Rex 100th Anniversary and the Tatuaje TAA. I have been wanting to see how these [...]

Redux: My Father Limited Edition 2010

At the 2010 IPCPR show, My Father Cigars S.A. showed off a few cigars, but the star of the show was the My Father Limited Edition 2010, which was guarded behind velvet rope. Later that year, the company owned by the family of Don José “Pepín” García released 2,000 individually numbered boxes of 12 cigars, [...]