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Review: Undercrown Gran Toro (Prerelease)

In continuing with our IPCPR 2011 cigar reviews, today we will be taking a look at a new cigar line from the Drew Estate crew, the Undercrown! About six months or so ago, the rumor mill starting churning about a brand new line from Drew Estate that was being released. Honestly at first we were [...]

Review: NHC Selección Limitada Capa Especial (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In early 2010, Dan Welsh of New Havana Cigars fame announced that Pete Johnson (of Tatuaje Cigars fame) was producing a exclusive cigar blend for his store. Named simply the “NHC Selección Limitada”, there were two different wrappers on the same blend, a natural Habano Ecuador wrapper on [...]

Review: My Father El Hijo

Today we will be taking a look at another Smoke Inn Cigars 15th Anniversary cigar, the My Father El Hijo! This Year marks Smoke Inn’s 15th Anniversary, and to celebrate that Abe Dabebnah, manager and proprietor of Smoke Inn, decided he would commission four projects to celebrate this milestone event with each project coming out [...]

Review: La Caridad Del Cobre Javelin (Prerelease)

Never heard of La Caridad Del Cobre Cigars? You are probably not alone. This small boutique brand is owned by Frank Herrera a Miami based Intellectual Property attorney. A few years ago he started LCDC Cigars as a side project. He quickly realized that if he was going to be successful in the cigar industry [...]

Review: Casa Magna Domus Magnus Optimus (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In 2008, Cigar Aficionado shocked the cigar world (and yes, I think that “Shocked” is the appropriate term) by naming the newish released Casa Magna as the #1 Cigar of the Year in their ratings. The Casa Magna, a cigar made by Nestor Plasencia for the Quesada family, [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Core Line Maduro Club 52 (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Back in the cigar boom of the 1990′s, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. was extremely well known for his cigars that he blended for La Gloria Cubana and the sticks with Maduro wrappers were some of his most popular and noted cigars. Everyone knew that E.P. Carrillo, Ernesto’s new company, would [...]

Review: My Uzi Weighs a Ton 5 x 60 (Prerelease)

The newest release from Jonathan Drew, My Uzi Weighs a Ton (MUWAT) is the end product of a journey that started with Jonathan creating a blend during on the Cigar Safari tours last November. As Jonathan himself said: “The beginning of the project actually started during the B.O.T.L tour because this was the very first [...]

Review: Guillermo León Robusto (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… During the IPCPR Trade Show in New Orleans last year, La Aurora released a brand new line of cigars, named after the President of the company, Guillermo León…In fact, he had this to say about the release: “Obviously, this cigar is personal for me. It is part of [...]

Review: Viaje C-4 (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In late June of 2010, Viaje released the “TNT”, a 6.25×54 cigar that was made to look like a stick of TNT (obviously). It has been known that the TNT would be rereleased around the same time every year (as are most of Viaje’s various lines), but what [...]

Review: 601 La Bomba Nuclear (Prerelease)

Today we will be taking a look at a new cigar from the EO Brands team Eddie Ortega and Erik Espinosa, the 601 La Bomba! Completely handmade in Estelí, Nicaragua the cigar is rumored to be a full bodied and a real powerhouse. While EO Brands is keeping the details a secret for now we [...]