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Review: Guillermo León Belicoso (Prerelease)

[Editor's Note: This is a review of a Prerelease cigar that was released at the IPCPR Show in New Orleans a few weeks ago. Most of the time, we in the blog community are only given one sample of any cigar that is released at the show, and so most of the reviews in this [...]

Review: J. Fuego Origen Originals (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Around April of this year, J. Fuego started releasing a new cigar onto the market in very small quantities, called the “Origen Original”, a new vitola in the Origen line…The idea behind this vitola was quite different then his other cigars, (and truth be told, quite different then [...]

Review: Toraño Single Region Serie Jalapa Robusto (Prerelease)

[Editor's Note: This is a review of a Prerelease cigar that was released at the IPCPR Show in New Orleans two weeks ago and collected and given to me by the amazing "Smoker X". Most of the time, we in the blog community are only given one sample of any cigar that is released at [...]

Review: AVO Heritage Short Robusto (Prerelease)

This year at the IPCPR Show in New Orleans, AVO introduced a brand new line of cigars, supposedly with a fuller, stronger profile…Dubbed the AVO Heritage, it will be made using the exact same Ecuadorian sun-grown wrapper as the Avo 2009 Compañero, as well as a Dominican binder and a blend of five different Dominican [...]

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: Pinar Del Río BOTL.org Small Batch 2010

For those of you that don’t know. About 2 months ago, it was announced that Pinar Del Rio would be releasing a very limited cigar run to be sold through (and only too members of) one of the main cigar forums that I frequent, BOTL.org (or Brothers of the Leaf). The owner of Pinar Del [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Short Run 2010 Delirios (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know. Back in August, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, Jr. released his first cigar under his brand new company E.P. Carrillo, the E.P. Carrillo Edicion Inaugural 2009 (which incidentally we awarded our #5 Cigar of the Year last year), a fairly limited cigar (only 125,00 were released). E.P. Carrillo will be releasing [...]

Review: Tatuaje Petit Cazadores Reserva (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know. Tatuaje is going to be releasing quite a few different cigars in the next couple of months, so I wanted to preview their Petit Cazadores Reserva. Not much is known about these, being a prerelease and all. It will have the same blend as the regular Cazadore, but [...]

Review: Cohiba Behike BHK 54

For those of you that don’t know. In 2006, Cohiba released one of the most expensive cigars in the world, the (original) Behike. Only 4,000 cigars were produced, and they only come in boxes of 40, each with a price tag of $440, and each rolled by only one person at the El Laguito factory [...]

Review: Diamond Crown Julius Caeser (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… During the middle of the Cigar boom of the 90′s (1996 to be exact), the J.C.Newman Cigar Company introduced the Diamond Crown brand of cigars to the world…The 2nd line in the brand, the Diamond Crown Maximus was introduced in 2003… At the IPCPR Trade Show in New Orleans [...]