Honduras

Filthy Ghooligan is a Halloween spin-off of Alec Bradley’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day cigar. The barber pole toro was released in limited quantities in mid-September.

Earlier this year, E.P. Carrillo premiered its Essence Series, a collection of six blends designed to showcase different wrappers. This third line prominently features Honduran tobacco, and is also made in the Central American country.

At the end of 2023, Caldwell Cigar Co. gave two of its core lines an extension that might have been a first in the industry. The Blind Man’s Bluff Connecticut and Maduro got a sweetened tip option.

The original Santiago Valladares line was introduced in 2023 as a European exclusive. In just a year, that blend has been discontinued and the brand has made its way to the U.S. Yes, it’s confusing.

Last year, General Cigar Co. turned to the factory best known for producing JRE’s cigars for a new Punch line. This year, the company added a lancero to the line.

This is the seventh year of the Cavalier Genève Limited Edition, and the first time the cigar has been a figurado shape. It’s limited to 1,948 boxes, a reference point to the melting temperature of gold.

A Cameroon-seed puro sounds like the wildest dream of some cigar smokers, myself included. JRE Tobacco Co. did just that, though the tobacco is grown in Honduras, with the cigar the latest evolution of JRE’s continued development of the crop.

In the spring of 2024, three of Cavalier Genève’s core lines received a new petit torpedo size called the N2. It’s a familiar size above the band, but the shorter length makes it distinctive among many other torpedoes.

More than five years after its initial review full of lots of praise, it’s time to revisit the Gran Habano Blue in Green Gran Robusto. Yes, it looks like Johnnie Walker Blue.

This is the fourth vitola in the Cosecha 149 line, which was made with the company’s 149th crop of tobacco. When the line debuted in 2021, it was Plasencia’s first Honduran puro released under its company name.

Released for Father’s Day, this is General Cigar Co.’s follow-up to last year’s Dad Bod, which was packaged in a four-pack of cans made to look like beer. This year’s release is packaged in 10-count boxes that are designed to look like a two-cassette VHS release, complete with sleeve.