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Torano Salutem Toro Major 16 Aug 2013 | 07:46 am
Lectori Salutem. Greetings reader. I suppose I should say “smoker” rather than reader, but I’m not sure that there is a Latin word for “smoker,” inasmuch as that part of the planet was a non-smoking a...
El Suelo & Trocadero from L’Atelier 31 Jul 2013 | 07:54 am
With the introduction of the El Suelo and Trocadero cigar lines, Pete Johnson said, “I want to show people that I can make a great inexpensive cigar.” This reflects poorly on the Tatuaje Series P ciga...
DPG Blue Through the Years 4 Jul 2013 | 05:31 am
A couple months ago Gordon Mott of Cigar Aficionado penned a blog post about the misleading use of cigar ratings in advertising. This was prompted by one manufacturer in particular who cited a 93 rati...
Oja Anniversary Atrevido 12 Jun 2013 | 07:35 am
Oja cigars are a relatively new boutique blend created by Luis Garcia and manufactured by Kiki Berger (of Cuban Crafters fame) in Esteli, Nicaragua. There are three standard lines: the Connecticut (wi...
Guayacan Torpedo 23 May 2013 | 07:20 pm
Guayacan is a boutique cigar created by Noel Rojas and distributed by Emilio Cigars. Rojas has a familiar story — a Cuban immigrant with a background in agriculture and the cigar industry. He eventual...
CyB Robusto Deluxe 14 May 2013 | 05:38 am
Everyone knew that when Jose Blanco joined the Joya de Nicaragua team that something interesting would happen. Mr. Blanco is well known to cigar fans and bloggers from his time at La Aurora, and his b...
El Rey de Los Habanos Toro 25 Apr 2013 | 09:31 pm
This is the story of the one that got away. Sometime in 2006, as the sun began to rise on the Empire of Jose “Don Pepin” Garcia, I acquired a box of El Rey de Los Habanos toros. This was the first cig...
1502 Ruby Toro 11 Apr 2013 | 05:55 am
1502 cigars are named for the year that Christopher Columbus first explored Nicaragua and claimed the territory from Honduras to Costa Rica for Spain. Within a few years of Columbus’s “discovery,” mos...
Trinidad Paradox Toro 26 Mar 2013 | 06:38 am
Cigar giant Altadis USA managed to sneak in this extension to the well respected Trinidad line last year: Trinidad Paradox, a medium to full bodied blend with a Mexican Criollo 98 wrapper. I tend to s...
Asylum 13 Fifty 7 Mar 2013 | 08:31 am
It’s hard to believe that it has been five years since Camacho was acquired by Davidoff, but it’s true. And while Davidoff has managed to keep the sticks rolling out of the factory in an almost seamle...
