Costa Rica

In 2016, Habanos S.A. shipped the Ramón Allones XXL, a 5 9/10 x 54 toro extra that was designated as the Edición Regional release for…

When it comes to the Atabey line of cigars, it seems like there’s as much unknown about them as there is seemingly known. Nelson Alfonso—who…

Earlier this year, Selected Tobacco expanded its Atabey offering by three new vitolas. One of those new vitolas is the Atabey Spiritus, a 7 1/2 x…

While it does not happen very often, every once in a while a cigar release ends up with a different name than the one it…

There aren’t a ton of people in the cigar business with a Wikipedia page. Nelson Alfonso Egüed has one and it’s well deserved. Alfonso is the…

When MBombay announced it was adding a maduro version of its Gaaja line, the plan was for it to come in two vitolas. However, earlier…

When it seems like marketing hype runs wild both in and out of the cigar industry, there is something rather refreshing about just calling something…

In the summer of 2016, Mel Shah not only decided that the time was right to release a new cigar line, but he decided that…

In July 2016, Bombay Tobak launched the original MBombay Gaaja, a cigar made up of in a single 6 x 54 box-pressed toro size whose…

In late 2015, MBombay Tobac released the Kēsara Vintage Reserve Nikka, a 6 1/2 x 46 corona extra named after owner Mel Shah’s wife. It used a modified…

I’ve smoked a lot of lanceros, hundreds of different ones in fact. They aren’t big sellers and a lot of that has to do with…