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2016 Awards: Top 25 Cigars

For the fifth time, halfwheel list its 25 best cigars of the year. This time the year is 2016 and the list is below. You will likely…

2016 Awards: Company of the Year

As we have stated at the beginning of each of our previous company of the year award announcements, there are no strict guidelines for company…

2016 Awards: Factory of the Year

In boxing, some won’t consider you a true champion until you defend the belt. It’s a belief that winning your first is significantly easier than defending…

2016 Awards: New Company of the Year

There’s no question that the field was neither as wide or as strong as it has been in the past for our new company of…

2016 Awards: Packaging Top 10

The best looking cigars and cigar packaging for 2016.

2015 Awards: The Consensus Top 25 Cigars

And we’re back. As we’ve done for the previous four years, here is The Consensus. It’s a tabulated list of various top five, 10 and 25…

2015 Awards: Top 25 Cigars

As noted earlier, for the first time in quite some time, there were a lot of cigars that scored 91 points or higher and eligible…

2015 Awards: Company of the Year

There are no strict guidelines for company of the year. We simply ask each of our reviewers to judge every cigar company on how they…

2015 Awards: Factory of the Year

There are some that look forward to this award even more than our top 25 list, and I understand why. Factory of the Year isn’t…

2015 Awards: New Company of the Year

Launching a new company is a significant challenge, a big part of which is making sure that what you promise gets delivered and that there…

2015 Awards: Packaging Top 10

It’s time to kick off our annual awards here at halfwheel and as such, we start with what is pretty. This is the fourth year for…