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Review: Four Kicks Mule Kick

By now the brand Crowned Heads and their Four Kicks line are a well known among boutique cigar lovers. However if you’re unfamiliar with them let’s take a look back at what Brooks had to say about them in his Four Kicks prerelease reviewlast year: In November of 2010, C.A.O. Director of Lifestyle Marketing Jon Huber decided to [...]

Review: My Father Limited Edition 2012

Back into 2010, My Father Cigars announced an extremely unique release, the My Father Limited Edition 2010. Each cigar came in its own individual coffin and each was rolled by José “Don Pepín” García and bunched by Jaime García. The blend also used the famed Pelo de Oro leaf, a tobacco strain that is notoriously [...]

Review: Don Carlos Edición de Aniversario 2007 Toro

In 2006, Prometheus started selling the first of many releases of the Don Carlos Edición de Aniversario, a cigar blended specifically to honor the 30th anniversary of the Don Carlos line of cigars. While it has many similarities to the Don Carlos blend, it supposedly uses the OpusX Rosado wrapper instead of the Cameroon wrapper used [...]

Review: El Primer Mundo Clase Reserva

Earlier this year, Sean Williams began shipping his newest cigar, the El Primer Mundo Clase Reserva. It debuted alongside La Hermandad, which was shown off nationally at IPCPR 2012 in July. We covered the basics in May: The cigar is made at El Titan de Bronze in Calle Ocho alongside the Liga Miami, but will [...]

Review: My Father Commemorative 911 Blend 343 Firefighter Limited Edition 2012 Connecticut

For the second year in a row, My Father and Casa de Montecristo in Chicago have teamed up to release a cigar to commemorate the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City.  Last year’s release featured a single blend with two different wrappers: Habano Rosado and Oscuro. This year’s release features a tweaked version of [...]

Review: My Father Commemorative 911 Blend 343 Firefighter Limited Edition 2012 Maduro

Last year to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Jaime García and Casa de Montecristo released a limited edition My Father 911 343 with two different wrappers: Habano and Oscuro. Here is a little more of the back story directly from the 911 Cigars website: Last year Jeffrey Holst, a battalion chief here in Lombard Illinois, brought [...]

Review: Iconic Leaf Recluse Toro (Prerelease)

Prior to IPCPR, William Cooper of Cigar Coop proclaimed, “(Iconic Leaf) is a company and a cigar you are going to hear a lot more of in 2012.” And he was right, for a few reasons. First and foremost, Iconic Leaf was a company that was relatively unheard of up until Coop’s post. Iconic Leaf [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana Oro Natural No. 6 (Prerelease)

Among a handful of new releases from La Flor Dominicana at this summer’s IPCPR trade show was the Oro line, a trio of cigars with a new blend and packed in gold tubes, which in turn come in five-count boxes. According to Litto Gomez, the line is said to be “an amped up Coronado blend,” a reference to [...]

Redux: Alec Bradley Fine & Rare Toro

One of the more talked about cigars of the 2011 IPCPR show in Las Vegas was the Alec Bradley Fine & Rare. It employed ten different types of tobacco, including seven different fillers, which the company boasted as being the only cigar on the market to do that. It was also the company’s first attempt [...]

Review: Tatuaje TAA 2012

As we wrote in March and again in August, the Tobacconists Association of America held its annual convention, which took place March 25-29 in Los Cabos, Mexico. While that in of itself is not something to get overly excited about, this was also the time when Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars took orders for one of [...]