Cigars

This $19 cigar is made with a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper, a Mexican San Andrés binder and filler tobaccos grown in Nicaragua and the U.S. The total production is limited to just 5,000 cigars packaged in 10-count boxes.

Joya de Nicaragua, Nicaragua’s first premium cigar maker, celebrated its 55th anniversary in 2023 with Cinco de Cinco. The cigar was blended with the input of hundreds of visitors to the factory and the cigars they created for themselves.

With this year’s release, it means HVC has released a full decade of Black Friday cigars. For 2024, the HVC Black Friday gets some filler tobacco from the island of Ometepe.

Paul Garmirian celebrated the 25th anniversary of his eponymous brand in 2015. Nine years later, the line gets its third size, a belicoso.

This 6 3/4 x 54 torpedo vitola and its Natural wrapper counterpart were offered to stores who placed orders during a trade show in July 2023. The 97 part of the name references what would have been the 97th birthday of the company’s founder, the late José O. Padrón.

It’s part of the Oro line, but it doesn’t look like any of the other Lampert Oro vitolas and doesn’t use the same blend. Kingpin is the line’s Flying Pig.

A decade after the Buenavista line debuted, Curivari has given its value-oriented line an extension called Favoritos. Three blends, two sizes each, all under six bucks.

In 2020, J.C. Newman released Yagua, a cigar that doesn’t look like any other cigar on the market. Then again, many Yaguas don’t like many Yaguas.

According to the company, this is the first premium cigar to use tobaccos from South Africa and Zimbabwe. The cigar takes its name from Zimbabwe’s iconic Victoria Falls, one of the world’s largest waterfalls.

The first cigars from Andre Farkas’ Viaje were made at Joya de Nicaragua. This year—more than 15 years after the last new JDN-made Viaje was released—the two companies reunited for Roots.

Ten years after the Villiger Cuéllar Krēmē line debuted, the company added a lonsdale to the line. It launched the cigar at a fairly new trade show hosted by Quality Importers Trading Co.