Redux

The first review of the La Aurora 115th Anniversary Limited Edition Gran Toro generated a score of 92. After five-and-a-half years, it’s time to revisit the cigar.

In 2020, following its purchase of Royal Agro, STG stopped selling the Balmoral cigars in the U.S. It’s time to take a look back at one of the last new releases from the brand.

In October of 2018, Tatuaje unveiled a new collection of limited, Miami-made Tatuaje cigars called Escasos. The following spring, the Selección de Cazador line—commonly referred to as the Brown Label—would get the Escasos treatment, getting a new wrapper and being rolled in South Florida.

Los Tejanos is a collaboration between Edgar Hoill and Noel Rojas. Four years after the original review, it’s time to revisit the Toro vitola.

Released last year, the Connecticut Londres was part of a sampler that included 16 cigars, two each of the company’s eight different core-line blends. Carrying the name Micallef Collectors Edition, the sampler was made to commemorate the 80th birthday of company founder Al Micallef.

In the spring of 2023, Powstanie added a 5 1/2 x 46 corona gorda as the fifth size in its core lines, the Habano and Broadleaf. After a year of rest, the time has come to revisit the skinniest size in the line.

Eleven years ago, Davidoff entered a new chapter of its storied history, embracing Nicaragua and its tobacco. Ten years later, the company celebrated that event with a cigar; now that cigar gets a revisit.

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.

The La Flor Dominicana TAA The Golden Salomon Maduro was released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Tobacconists’ Association of America. The 7 x 64 Salomon vitola was sold in both maduro and natural wrappers, but La Flor Dominicana has declined to give any other specifics about the blend.

Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. celebrated his 70th birthday in 2021, with the accompanying cigar selected by consumers the following year and released in 2023. After a year of rest, a revisitation of the E.P. Carrillo Platinum Bash hopes to see improvement after a less-than-ideal first impression.

Released in April 2023, the third addition to Davidoff’s Camacho Factory Unleashed line is composed of Mexican San Andrés wrapper covering a binder grown in Honduras and a filler blend of tobaccos sourced from the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Like the first two cigars in the series, it was also rolled with an unfinished foot, meaning the filler tobaccos extend slightly past the bottom of the wrapper.