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Review: EloGio Excéntrico

At IPCPR 2012, EloGio released its second limited edition, the massive 7 x 54 Torpedo Excéntrico. The plume cap-covered cigar is limited to only 200 boxes of 10 with a MSRP of $15.00 per cigar. In 2011, the relatively new EloGio released their first limited edition, the Excepcionales, a 5 5/8 x 82 Double Torpedo. EloGio [...]

Review: Liga Privada Único Serie Velvet Rat

On October 19, 2012 Drew Estate held a special event at TESA Cigar Co. to sell Drew Estate’s newest Liga Privada for the first time, the Velvet Rat. Just 40 bundles of 10 cigars were offered as part of the “soft launch” with a full release expected mid-2013.  We covered the news a few weeks [...]

Review: Ortega The Wild Bunch Big Bad John Jackhammer (Preproduction)

News of a new limited run batch of cigars from Eddie Ortega started to surface on Facebook in late July, just a few weeks before the IPCPR convention and trade show happening in early August. Details remained sketchy some two months after the show as the series evolved, but things are becoming a bit clearer [...]

Review: Padilla Premier Cru Torpedo

Back in May of 2012, Ernesto Padilla decided to, for lack of a better term, “blow up” his entire cigar portfolio and begin again. Gone were such staples as 1932, Artemis, Dominus and Miami, replaced with two new blends out of Miami, Invictus and a Maduro line. Immediately after that, it was announced that Oliva Cigar Company [...]

Review: My Father Commemorative 911 Blend 343 Firefighter Limited Edition 2012 Connecticut

For the second year in a row, My Father and Casa de Montecristo in Chicago have teamed up to release a cigar to commemorate the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City.  Last year’s release featured a single blend with two different wrappers: Habano Rosado and Oscuro. This year’s release features a tweaked version of [...]

Review: My Father Commemorative 911 Blend 343 Firefighter Limited Edition 2012 Maduro

Last year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Jaime García and Casa de Montecristo released a limited edition My Father 911 343 with two different wrappers: Habano and Oscuro. Here is a little more of the back story directly from the 911 Cigars website: Last year Jeffrey Holst, a battalion chief here in Lombard Illinois, brought [...]

Review: Tatuaje The Mummy

It is October again — and that means just one thing to Tatuaje fans — the annual release of the Monster Series. For five years running, Pete Johnson has released a different cigar based on monster characters in classic and recent films. We detailed the details in our story about The Mummy release: As mentioned in our [...]

Review: Oliva Atlantic Cigar 15th Aniversario Diadema (Prerelease)

Back in November of 2011, Atlantic Cigar released the first of what they announced would eventually be four different cigars from four different manufacturers to celebrate their 15th year of business. The fourth and final cigar in the series is being produced by Oliva Family of Cigars and will be released for sale to the general [...]

Review: Oliva Serie V Diadema (2012) (Prerelease)

In September of 2012 at the Inter-tabac 2012 trade show in Dortmund, Germany, Oliva brought two bundles of a new 9 x 52 Diadema in the Serie V blend. The cigars were created at the request of one of Oliva’s European distributors and are now in production, with a release set for next month. Last [...]

Review: Jaime Garcia Sur Oeste Corona

Back in May of this year, in the midst of a variety of regional editions coming from My Father Cigars Inc. and Pete Johnson’s Havana Cellars, whose cigars are made by My Father, a regional edition for accounts in Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas was announced, the Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Sur Oeste, which translates into southwest. [...]