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

Other than the usual and ongoing discussions about supply and what’s coming next, one of the more common conversations I have heard about trends with...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

Those passionate about Cuban cigars will often reference specific times when production was particularly good, releases were notably exciting, or things just seemed to be...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

There is only one first of anything, and the first Edición Regional for the Por Larrañaga marca was the Lonsdales. Released in 2006—just one year after the Edición...Read More