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Review: Yolanda Cañonazo

[This is the 3nd Cigar review in a new series on this site called "Custom Rolled Cubans", which as far as I know is the only series like this of it's kind on any of the major cigar review blogs (the first review in this series was on the Robaina "El Padrino" Farm Cigar, which [...]

Review: Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin

About a week ago, it was announced that Jose Agosto from Gloucester Street Cigars in Boston had a brand new Tatuaje Singe Store Limited Release. It is part of the Butcher Cut series, and is dubbed the Pork Tenderloin. Now, this limited release stuff is all old hat to Jose. He sold the (extremely limited) [...]

Review: Viaje Holiday Blend (2009)

In December of 2009, Viaje introduced one of their first Limited Releases, dubbed the Holiday Blend; a 5 x 54 full bodied Nicaraguan puro with a Criollo wrapper. It will be an annual release, introduced every year around the winter holidays. Last years release (2009) was limited to 100 boxes of 30 cigars (so only [...]

Redux: Coronado Maduro Corona Especial

The La Flor Dominicana Coronado Maduro did not exactly take the cigar community by storm when it was released in mid-2009. Intended as an experiment of sorts, it the cigar is the exact same blend as the regular Coronado by La Flor, which I still love to smoke, with a Maduro wrapper from Ecuador replacing [...]

Review: OpusX Chili Pepper

In 2004, Arturo Fuente teamed up with Prometheus to introduce the OpusX 22 box set. The set included 22 OpusX cigars, one of which had never been officially sold in retail settings before, the Fuente Fuente OpusX Chili Pepper. Various occasions had seen the cigar handed out privately, but it had never been offered for [...]

Review: Tatuaje Outlaw

For those of you that don’t know. In June of 2010, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars announced he would be releasing another one of his Single Store Limited Series (now known as the exclusivo series). This time for Outlaw Cigars in Kansas City, Missouri, and their Bad to the Bone event. Despite quite a bit [...]

Review: Reynaldo Lancero

Reynaldo Jimenez is one of the major custom rollers who plies his craft in Cuba. The main location he works out of is the Hotel Conde de Villanueva, which is the former mansion of Claudio Martínez de Pinillos, Count of Villanueva, the leader of Cuban Creole society in the nineteenth century. The building dates back [...]

Review: Liga Privada T52 Double Corona

When Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate fame told me he was sending me a few samples to smoke and review, I said “awesome, can’t wait!” Inside the package I received from Drew Estate were some samples of a cigar called the JD4, which we will get into at a later date when we review it, and [...]

Review: Stanford’s 90th Diamond Crown MAXIMUS

For those of you that don’t know. In 2006, the J.C. Newman Company introduced the Stanford’s 90th Diamond Crown Maximus cigar to pay tribute to Stanford Newman, the firm’s reigning icon, who turned 90 in June 2006, making him the oldest living cigar professional in the business at the time, and who is one of [...]

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 [...]