José O. Padrón 89 Birthday Blend Natural
In June, José Orlando Padrón will turn 90. This January, South Florida-based Smoke Inn held a party to celebrate this occasion. Or to celebrate last…
Davidoff Las Vegas Exclusive
In case you’ve been under a rock for the past few years, Davidoff has been taking a multi-faceted approach to seemingly becoming the world’s most…
Dunhill Signed Range Selección Suprema
There is perhaps no more impressive collection of cigars under one name than Dunhill’s Selección Suprema. The line came about in 1935 when Dunhill, the…
Crux Sports
In the spring of 2014, Crux Cigars began what looked like it would be a quick rise to prominence in the cigar industry. The company…
La Escepción Don José (ER Italy 2015)
Back in 2011, Habanos S.A. brought back a marca that had been out of production for decades, La Escepción. The return was in the form…
Room101 Ichiban Mutante
In January 2015, Room101 announced the Ichiban Series, heralded by Matt Booth as “one of our finer works over the past five years and a…
José O. Padrón 89 Birthday Blend Maduro
On Jan. 29, Smoke Inn hosted a party in honor of José O. Padrón’s 90th birthday with a special cigar released for the event. Presumably, it…
Laranja Reserva DeSocio
Last month, Alliance Cigar announced the release of another cigar in the company’s DeSocio series, which is named after owner Tom Sullivan’s maternal grandmother and…
Caldwell Funfetti
Yes, there is a cigar called Funfetti, and yes, it’s a serious release. Given Robert Caldwell’s seeming love of quirky names for cigars, it might…
La Galera Connecticut Tabaquero Presidente
After purchasing Indianhead Distributors last October, José “Jochy” Blanco announced that the first release under the new brand would be named La Galera, which was supposed…
Standard Issue Robusto
In mid-2014, I reviewed Standard Issue, the first cigar from the newfound partnership between Oettinger Davidoff AG’s Camacho brand and Rob Weiss, the writer and…
