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

It seems that over recent times I’ve been seeing a growing number of athletes and entertainers dubbing themselves with a moniker that incorporates their area...Read More

This is your grandfather’s Connecticut cigar. Or at least that’s the billing of the Sobremesa Brûlée. Unlike the last Connecticut cigar I reviewed, Dunbarton Tobacco...Read More

In one of my previous reviews of a lighter, I wrote a line that said something to the effect that the most common decision someone...Read More

As has been mentioned on this site many times before, it is not unusual for cigar manufacturers to release specific cigars to commemorate special occasions,...Read More

For the third release in its series of cigars bearing the Alma name, Plasencia 1865 turned to the Nicaraguan island of Ometepe, home to two volcanoes...Read More

If you asked me what’s a strong cigar? the answers would probably start with Arturo Fuente’s Añejo, a cigar that always seems to hit me harder than...Read More

Cigars have been named after many different people, animals and even inanimate objects, but to my knowledge a new release from Powstanie is the first cigar...Read More

While the cigar industry as a whole was getting ready for the 2019 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Padilla was opening a new factory. Tabacalera...Read More

Anniversaries in the cigar industry are always a valid explanation for a new cigar. At one point, those were reserved for just major anniversaries, but...Read More

At last year’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, JRE Tobacco. Co. released a very interesting cigar it dubbed the Aladino Corojo Reserva. The interesting part...Read More