In the world of rare and often expensive Cuban cigar releases, the Gran Reserva and Reserva lines are fairly well known and well documented. But...Read More

When I first started getting into cigars, I remember being absolutely fascinated by—maybe even obsessed with—the Edición Regional program offered by Habanos S.A., the Cuban...Read More

There have been over 150 Edición Regional releases from Habanos S.A., meaning that if you had to ask people to name the one that was...Read More

On Sept. 8, 2018, more than 500 people attended an event held at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Spain that brought together Habanos S.A.; the Spanish...Read More

In 2000, Habanos S.A. released the first of what would become an annual series of cigars, a number of which have become some of the most...Read More

There have been 15 Germany Edición Regionals to date. As it turns out, it took us 13 years to review the first two of them....Read More

While it may not seem like it now, there was a time when Habanos S.A. would release over 20 new Edición Regionals in a single...Read More

There once was a time in which Habanos S.A. would let distributors receive multiple Edición Regional releases in a single year. That practice came to...Read More

All good things must come to an end, and in late 2016 we learned that saying also applied to one of the most popular recent Cuban cigar marcas. Named Edmundo Dantes after the protagonist in one of the French author Alexandre Dumas’ most famous books, “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the Edmundo Dantes brand debuted in […]Read More

There are only a few cigar-related numbers, if any, that make the staff at halfwheel perk up quite like 109. It’s a reference to a vitola, but really more to a specific type of way cigars are capped. Rather than using a normal belicoso head, which typically comes to a point like the end of an […]Read More

If there is one country in the world whose Ediciónes Regional releases have intrigued me, it is Italy. This is largely attributed to the La Escepción Selectos Finos release from 2011, a release that garnered attention for its remarkable flavor profile, but also for tapping into the archives in search of a previously defunct brand. […]Read More