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Review: Fonseca No.4 (ER Benelux 2010)

Today we will be taking a look at the very first Edición Regional cigar for the Fonseca line of cigars. Fonseca is a current pre-revolution brand that currently has only four Standard Production cigars to its lineup. The Fonseca brand was registered in 1907 and is made up of mild to medium body cigars. All [...]

Review: Puro Express Bespoke Laguito No.5

Today we will be taking look at another cigar in our Custom Rolled Cubans series, the Puro Express Bespoke. It comes as no surprise that a cigar company like Puro Express has put out a custom cigar house blend as Custom cigars have gained a ton of popularity in the last few years. Just recently [...]

Review: Flor de A. Allones Dunhill Selección Suprema No.50

Today we will be looking at a very old Dunhill made cigar. Some of you may know that Dunhill not only made cigars for themselves but also had exclusive cigars made under other brands lineups. Originally Dunhill had 3 exclusive brands, Don Cándido, Don Alfredo and Flor Del Punto which were all Dunhill brand cigars. [...]

Review: Partagas Serie D No.1 (EL 2004)

Today we are smoking a very special cigar by my absolute favorite Cuban cigar brand. A lot of Edición Limitadas have gotten a bad rap simply because they don’t usually warrant the price tag. A lot of people, myself included, would consider them to be bit of marketing genius on Habanos’ part by making you believe [...]

Review: Dunhill Estupendos

For those of you that don’t know… As I have said before, one of the most interesting brands in cigar history has always been Dunhill, and the Dunhill Estupendos is one of the rarest (and most expensive) vitolas that they produced. It is also one of the two vitolas that came in a Tube (the [...]

Review: H. Upmann Coronas Major

Today we will be taking a look at the H. Upmann Coronas Major. This Specific vitola is actually called “Eminentes” but is basically a standard sized corona. These cigars were introduced well before the 1960’s but up until 2002 were completely machine made cigars. These cigars are sold in tubo packaging only and underwent a [...]

Review: Vegas Robaina Marshal (ER Adriatico 2008)

For those of you that don’t know, the story of the Vegas Robaina Marshal, which is the Regional Edition Release for the Adriatic Region in 2008, is one of the most interesting, and honestly, confusing, to come out of Cuba in a long, long time. It might get a bit confusing, so stick with me. [...]

Review: La China Pigtail Robusto

When you talk about custom Cuban cigars and the many different rollers that craft them, one of the names you will hear with much prestige is Leopoldina Gutiérrez, otherwise known in the cigar world as “La China.” She is at the top of the bunch of Level 8 Rollers (i.e. the highest proficiently level you [...]

Review: Ramón Allones Lusitanos (ER Portugal 2010)

Ramón Allones released their first Edición Regional series of the year a few months ago and we enjoyed quite a bit. The second Ramón Allones release this year in the Regional Edición series is the Petit Edmundo sized Lusitanos for the Portugal Region.  If you know me, you know that I have been nothing but [...]

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 [...]