Reviews

By now you’re likely aware of the partnership between Camacho and legendary football player and coach Mike Ditka. Launched in 2012, the two have partnered…

Oh, what could have been. In 2010, Tatuaje released the first in what was supposed to be annual series of cigars incorporating tobacco that was…

There are no strict guidelines for company of the year. We simply ask each of our reviewers to judge every cigar company on how they…

If you asked most of our readers to name the two most prolific companies when it comes to limited edition cigars, I’m confident that Tatuaje…

If you’ve been in a humidor or read pretty much any cigar publication in recent years, you’re undoubtedly familiar with La Palina, the brand owned by…

My first halfwheel “Holy Grail week” cigar was the Camacho Super Limitado. Since I reviewed it three years ago, there has been one big change. Rolled…

In 1995, the cigar world was changed forever with the introduction of the Fuente Fuente OpusX, the first cigar to utilize all Dominican tobacco. It’s challenging…

Ba. That’s crucial to this review. In Chinese culture, the number eight, 八 pronounced ba, is considered lucky because it sounds similar to 發 pronounced fa, which is used…

In late 2011, it became known that E.P. Carrillo was planning an extensions to its limited Elenecos line, Elencos Oscuro. That December, the company shipped…

In 2011, Elogio released Excepcionales, an extremely limited release that bucked the trend of what had otherwise been relatively conservative cigars. It was a massive…

Last month, Tampa, Fla.-based retailer Thompson Cigars launched a new exclusive release that it had been working on with Casa Fernández for the past two…