Awards

The 25 best cigars of any given year are, as would be implied, very good cigars. There’s always a recency bias that takes place when…

It’s the prettiest of all the awards. As we do every year, it’s time to recognize what the writers of halfwheel thought were the best packaging…

Last year, we had a three-way tie for this award. This year, some of us considered whether even giving out the recognition made sense. As…

The award for the best cigar factory in 2019 was nearly unanimous. Unlike our other awards this year, it was very close or even tough…

As many of you noted in the comments section of our own Top 25 list, there are—potentially—too many best cigars of the year list. What’s…

It’s time to reveal the 2018 Consensus, a compilation of Best Cigars of 2018 lists from numerous cigar media outlets, YouTubers and other people who…

Nearly every day of the year, we review a cigar. The group of cigars we review over the course of any given year is diverse…

Later today, it’s halfwheel’s Top 25 cigars for 2018 and like last year, we are announcing them live on Facebook and YouTube. Watch below as Patrick…

A new date, but same concept. This is halfwheel’s 2018 Packaging Top 10. While we spend most of our time focusing on the blends of cigars, we…

The day is here for the pretty things. Tune in at 2 p.m. central time as Patrick Lagreid, Brooks Whittington and myself announce halfwheel’s annual Top…

Not one, not two, but three. For the first time, we have a tie for first place for one of these awards, a three-way tie for…