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Review: La Aurora Puro Vintage 2004 (Prerelease)

Today we will be taking a look at a prerelease cigar from La Aurora who because of their exclusive American distributor Miami Cigar Cigar & Co., fall into this weeks category. Many of you may be familiar with a cigar that came out in 2008 called the La Aurora Puro Vintage 2003, a 7 1/2 x [...]

Review: León Jimenes Prestige Robusto (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Another new release from La Aurora, the León Jimenes Prestige is one of the most interesting releases this year from a historical standpoint. There has been a León Jimenes blend out for quite a while, it was actually introduced in the 1970s, but the idea behind the Prestige release [...]

Review: Room 101 LTD Namakubi Papi Chulo (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Introduced at the IPCPR Show last month, the Room 101 Namakubi made a splash, not just for it’s interesting name origins (below), but also for it’s box design. Room 101 also released a new Connecticut blend, which uses a wrapper sourced from Davidoff. The Namakubi actually has an [...]

Review: Xikar HC Series Habano Colorado Salomon Limitado (Prerelease)

Today we will be taking a look at one of the larger cigars introduced at this years IPCPR, the Xikar HC Series Salomon Limitado! Xikar has been one of the most innovative cigar accessory manufacturers since their start in the mid 1990s, the Xikar Cutter is one of the most recognizable cigar tools out there [...]

Review: Cain Daytona Lancero (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… As you may or may not know, I am a sucker for a good background story on a cigar, and the Cain Daytona Lancero is one of the best I have heard in a while. While at the IPCPR show in Vegas last month, I got a Tweet [...]

Review: Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Limited Edition 2011 (Prerelease)

Today we will be taking a look at a very special cigar that generated some buzz at the 2011 IPCPR, the Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Limited Edition 2011! Coming off of the success of the My Father Limited Editions (which we reviewed here and here), Jaime García, president of My Father Cigars, has decided to [...]

Review: Padilla/Studio Tobac Figurado (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In March of 2011, the (Oliva) StudioTobac Executive Board approved a request from Padilla Cigars to produce a Limited Edition full-bodied, Nicaraguan cigar that Padilla would distribute. This is the first (of presumably many) collaborations that the Studio Tobac team will produce. Says Studio Tobac’s John Gazerro: “Even [...]

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 [...]