Reviews

After a five-year hiatus, the Deadwood Sweet Jane Día de los Muertos returned to shelves. It’s a limited edition version of Drew Estate’s popular Deadwood Sweet Jane line.

The cigar is named for the punk rock band fronted by Wendy O. Williams. For brand co-owner Cynn Coburn, it was the chance to honor an icon of punk rock decadence & attitude, who she said live the life of a Dissident.

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.

For the second time, Rojas Cigars celebrated the Cinco de Mayo holiday with a limited edition cigar. However, this time is was for its portfolio as opposed to a collaboration for another company’s

Over the history of the La Gloria Cubana brand, the Glorias name has been used for at least three different cigars. In this case, it was for an Edición Regional released for Germany in late 2016.

Arsenio Ramos was the definition of a “tobacco man,” having spent some 40 years working in Cuba’s tobacco industry before leaving the island to join Eduardo Fernández and the company that would become AGANORSA Leaf. While he passed away in 2018 at the age of 83, his name and his legend live on with a new cigar line released in the summer of 2024.

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.

The Long Live The Queen Maduro is an important moment: the first new cigar from Caldwell after the Laudisi acquisition, one of the first cigars from the rebuilt Tabacalera William Ventura, and the follow-up to one of last year’s headlining releases.

RoMa Craft Tobac’s newest line is a tribute to the people who have helped get the company and the associated Nica Sueño factory to where they are today. While the three regular production sizes came out earlier this month, a fourth, limited edition size, was released this summer as a preview of the line.

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.

A Reserva Real Nicaragua is getting the barberpole treatment.