Reviews

Collaboration releases between General Cigar Co. and the El Titan de Bronze factory in Miami are nothing new, but this line is owned by the factory. The new blend is made with an Ecuadorian habano wrapper covering filler tobaccos from Nicaragua: the binder is grown in the Estelí region while the filler includes tobacco from the Estelí and Jalapa regions.

It took the Artesano del Tobacco team five years to develop the line, premiering it in 2023. A year later, the brand has given the line its fourth size, one quite a bit smaller than the first three in which it debuted.

Sinistro’s highest-end offering made its third appearance at the end of 2023. It’s a blend built around a decade-old wrapper leaf that undergoes a unique fermentation process.

The Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Edición Doble Diamante is priced at $150 per cigar. No, we don’t factor price into scores.

The newest release in Drew Estate’s Liga Privada H99 Connecticut Corojo line is the largest yet, a 6 x 60 gordo with a price tag of $21.14 each. It is only being sold at Drew Diplomat Program retail partner events, and each of those retailers are limited to just three boxes per event, or 75 total cigars.

Not only was Mike Tyson one of boxing’s greatest fighters, but he crossed over to become an icon of pop culture. This summer, his legend grew a bit more with a new cigar line.

Illusione is once again embracing the idea of secrecy and mystery for its newest line, the Group of Five. As the band says, whispering tongues are treachery.

This is the fourth and final release of Davidoff’s History Re-Rolled Series, a line that debuted last year made up of cigars Davidoff had previously discontinued but brought back as limited editions. The filler of the blend includes seco from San Vicente that was aged for six months in spent casks that previously held premier grand cru classé red wine from Bordeaux, France.

Los Tejanos is a collaboration between Edgar Hoill and Noel Rojas. Four years after the original review, it’s time to revisit the Toro vitola.

When Sin Compromiso debuted in 2019, it was missing a robusto, one of the most common sizes in the cigar industry. Five years later, the line added one after Steve Saka found just the right tweaks to make so he could release one without compromising on the line’s name.

For the 11th release of Las Calaveras, Crowned Heads created a blend made entirely of Nicaraguan tobacco. Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, says it reminds him of the 2015 release.