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83%Hot & Sour

Punch Chop Suey

April 17, 2020

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2020

In the spring of 2019, Punch shocked the cigar scene with a limited cigar known as Punch Egg Roll, deviating from the brand's classic heritage with an off-the-wall concept based around Chinese-American takeout.... Read More...

87%The New Old

Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas 2019

EL Oso Fumar

March 31, 2020

Cigar Reviews, $10 to $15 Range, 2020

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” —St. Augustine. Faith and hard work. It’s the very foundation of the premium cigar industry and the backbone to one of t... Read More...

86%Expensive Date

Cohiba Spectre CS19

velorok

December 13, 2019

Cigar Reviews, $15 & Over, 2019

Ninety dollars. That’s how much one of these cigars costs. There are cigars that I thoroughly enjoy that cost $90 for a box. What in the world could make a single cigar worth $90? Well, the marketing geniuses a... Read More...

83%In Session

CAO Session ‘Garage’

EL Oso Fumar

September 25, 2019

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2019

“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” — Edwin Land It’s blunt, but I’ve always loved this quote. Any great project, especially cigars, takes hundreds of hands and a lot of trust and contribution to com... Read More...

86%Generally OK

Cohiba Connecticut Robusto

velorok

September 5, 2019

Cigar Reviews, $15 & Over, 2019

I'll come right out and say this at the start—I feel like the non-Cuban Cohiba is a cigar that shouldn’t be. To be sure, you’ll find plenty of American-distributed versions of the old, famed Cuban brands that e... Read More...

89%S'more Please

Partagas Legend Corona Extra Leyenda

Jack Heyer

April 11, 2019

Cigar Reviews, $10 to $15 Range, 2019

At the annual IPCPR trade show in 2018, General Cigar Co. released a new line for the Partagas brand. The Partagas Legend was created to pay tribute to the most influential figures over the years; those that he... Read More...

Partagas 1845 Clasico robusto cigar review

86%Empty Barrel

Partagas 1845 Clásico Robusto

Alex Martinez

August 15, 2018

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2018

Like all things that have been experienced, revisiting them has benefits and cons. Revisiting an attractive girlfriend that may not be as alluring anymore (well, neither are we), rediscovering a car that you co... Read More...

86%Nostalgic

Macanudo Inspirado Black Robusto

EL Oso Fumar

July 31, 2018

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2018

If you have spent any significant amount of time smoking premium cigars, you have smoked a Macanudo (just taking a wild guess here). Whenever I reflect on the nostalgic nature of cigars, I'm reminded of Macanud... Read More...

89%Connecti-bano

Macanudo Inspirado White

velorok

February 6, 2018

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2018

I, like many, many smokers, recall having a Macanudo as my first real cigar. I remember it fondly: June of 1992 (when they were still made in Jamaica), heading to West Virginia with my father—he stopped at a ga... Read More...

87%Feeling Blue

Cohiba Blue

Jordan Guttormson

June 16, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2017

Before Sean Williams was announced as the new face of Cohiba and even before the Cohiba Blue was introduced to the public, General Cigar Company (parent company of Cohiba) teased the cigar's release to the ciga... Read More...

89%Old School

Partagas Heritage Robusto

Jordan Guttormson

May 17, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2017

Partagás is famously among the world's oldest cigar brands in current production, dating back to 1845 (as you'll often see on the cigar's bands) in Havana, Cuba. Like nearly every non-Cuban duplicate brand, the... Read More...

88%Woodsy

Cohiba Macassar Toro Grande

Steve Stevens

May 11, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $15 & Over, 2017

Several years ago, the General Cigar Company’s Cohiba division began a collaborative project with the rapper Shawn “Jay Z” Carter which resulted in a spin-off brand named “Comador Cigars.” These cigars were rol... Read More...

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