In 2012, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje decided to venture from his generally Nicaraguan-forward cigar blends and release a cigar with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper,...Read More

A year ago I reviewed the Cornelius & Anthony The Gent and found it to be not only one of the better cigars of 2018,...Read More

There are not that many candela-wrapped blends on the market, so when RoMa Craft Tobac introduced the CroMagnon Fomorian six years ago, it was a...Read More

While opening up my redux humidor is a fairly routine process, every once in a while it seems like a cigar appears that I didn’t...Read More

This year has been rather quiet when it comes to the L’Atelier brands, notable because in 2018, Pete Johnson announced that he would be merging...Read More

While it may not seem like it now, there was a time when Habanos S.A. would release over 20 new Edición Regionals in a single...Read More

During our 2019 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show live show, Steva Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust made a comment that has stuck with me....Read More

The same year that E.P. Carrillo debuted as a company, it released the first of what would become an annual creation until 2015. That debut...Read More

Like many companies, Viaje has released its share of single-store exclusive cigars. One could even make the case that a good bit of the company’s...Read More

In early 2016, Smoke Inn of South Florida received two versions of a special black-banded Padrón made in honor of the company’s founder 89th birthday....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