Chinchalle
For the most part, cigars are cigars and cigar reviews are cigar reviews. Each week, I get assigned one or two to complete and it…
Flor del Valle Sky Flower Lancero
Open your phone, snap a picture, post it on Instagram, and boom, you have announced your newest cigar. At least, that was the case for…
Maestro del Tiempo 6102R (2020)
We have two types of redux reviews on halfwheel. One is the classical redux, where we go back and review an aged sample of a cigar…
Jason~Dumont Noir
It’s not Warped. Or maybe it is. For the last year, Kyle Gellis—best known as the founder of Warped—has been teasing cigars made under the…
Flor del Valle Seleccion del Valle
For the sixth size in his Flor del Valle line, Kyle Gellis of Warped Cigars invoked the three numbers that seem to get some attention among…
Lirio Rojo (2019)
In 2015, Warped debuted the first release in a line that would become a yearly tradition around the Christmas holidays. Named Lirio Rojo—which translates to red lilly…
Eagles Descent
One of the most popular destinations for exclusive cigars is Hawaii’s R. Field Wine Co., part of the Foodland family of stores. R. Field Wine…
La Colmena Unico Especial (2019)
Not only do I remember smoking my first La Colmena Unico Especial, I actually remembering buying the jar in Wichita, Kan. It was a bit…
Flor del Valle Seleccion del Valle
It seems that over recent times I’ve been seeing a growing number of athletes and entertainers dubbing themselves with a moniker that incorporates their area…
Guardian of the Farm Guapo H-Town Lancero
There are a number of well-known store exclusive series around the country, but one of the more famous is the H-Town Series at Houston-based retailer STOGIES…
Warped Serie Gran Reserva 1988
As has been written on this site many times, there have multiple examples over the years of cigar manufactures celebrating an important place, person or…