Awards

After walking away with an honorable mention in both 2016 and 2017, you might say that this year’s winner of our Factory of the Year award…

What were to happen if you took all the top 25 cigars lists and put them together. That’s the goal of The Consensus, a yearly feature…

At 2 p.m. I’ll unveil the 2017 version of The Consensus, live on Facebook. In addition, I’ll take your questions, give away a couple Boveda…

We reviewed nearly 300 cigars in 2017. As is often the case with halfwheel, it’s a wide range of items from the biggest releases of…

That’s right, we’ll be unveiling our Top 25 cigars for 2017 live, on Facebook. In addition to unveiling our list, we’ll be giving away three…

For the most part, this was not a year of bold risks, massive capital expenditures or complete reboots. Instead, thanks to reasons FDA-related and not,…

90. 92. 89. 91. 87. 87. 91. 88. 92. 90. Those are the scores for new cigars from the Cigars Davidoff factory in 2017, an…

There will not be an award for new company of the year in 2017, at least not from this site. We’ve given the award each…

It’s the second full week of January and as such that means it’s time for halfwheel’s annual awards. Unlike most publications, we give a handful of…

It’s December which means a lot of things, but at halfwheel it means we are full into preparation for our awards which are given out in…

It is likely that there will never be a year quite like 2016 for The Consensus. The difference between first and second? One point. The difference…