Dominican Republic

Davidoff’s The Master Selection Series, which gets its blends from cigars created by Eladio Díaz for his birthday, added two new releases this year.

Originally a Dutch cigar brand packed in tins, this version of the Red Anchor brand is made at the Hendrik Kelner Jr.’s Kelner Boutique Factory in the Dominican Republic.

For the second time in the last decade, J.C. Newman has revamped the packaging and the blend of the Diamond Crown maduro, formally known as Black Diamond.

The first cigar line from Bellatto Premium Cigars is designed to be an everyday, affordable smoke, made from a habano-forward blend of tobaccos.

Nearly 15 years since the first release, the Casa Magna brand grows again with a Dominican-made line that uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper to create one of the lighter profiles in the line.

For its first limited edition, Freud Cigar Co. enlisted the blending talents of the legendary Eladio Diaz, formerly the supervisor of production at Davidoff’s factory in the Dominican Republic.

Shortly before his death in 2009, Fernando León Asensio led La Aurora to experiment with growing tobacco in Bonao, Dominican Republic. Nearly 15 years later, some of that tobacco is being used on a cigar that honors what would be his 100th birthday.

Quesda’s Oktoberfest line continues this year with four different additions, making it one of the longest-running series of cigars in the company’s portfolio.

After more than two years in the humidor, it’s time to see if the Room101 Death Bucket can shake off some of the issues that cost it points when it was originally reviewed in July 2020.

Kristoff saw there was a demand for a short perfecto with a Cameroon wrapper.

The M by Macanudo line got three new flavor extensions, including this dark rum version, this summer.