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The Top 25 Cigars of 2023

The Top 25 cigars of 2023, rated and reviewed by halfwheel.

The Top 25 Cigars of 2022

At its core, this is best described as a 198-cigar tournament. Over the course of 2022, we published 198 reviews of cigars that were first released in 2021 or 2022. All of these reviews involved one person smoking three cigars. If the average score of those reviews resulted in a 91-point rating or higher, the cigars advanced to the next round.

The Top 25 Cigars 2021

Over the course of the last decade, halfwheel has produced many different Top 25 Cigars lists, though all have been centered around the same mission: trying to find…

The Top 25 Cigars of 2020

As you can see below, this is a very different Top 25 cigars list from most. At halfwheel, the 25 best cigars are the 25 best…

The Top 25 Cigars of 2019

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…

2018 Awards: Top 25 Cigars

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…

2017 Awards: Top 25

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…

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…

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…

2014 Awards: halfwheel 25

Statistically, this past year was fascinating as far as the quality of cigars in relation to this site’s ratings. The staff is pretty much in…

2013 Awards: halfwheel 25

After over 250 cigars, the staff of halfwheel took more than 30 of the highest rated new cigars of 2013, smoked and ordered them individually….