Honduran wrapper Archives

82%Steeped in Maple

Asylum 867 Auntie Petite Corona

March 15, 2024

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2024

At the start of 2022, Asylum and CLE developed three blends for the South Dakota-based retailer Deadwood Tobacco Company. The line was dubbed Chasing the Dragon, which included the Midnight Oil, Auntie, and Zer... Read More...

Plasencia Cosecha 151 Corona Gorda cigar review

91%Decadent Harvest

Plasencia Cosecha 151 San Diego

Scott Braband

March 8, 2024

Cigar Reviews, $10 to $15 Range, 2024

Tobacco harvests aren’t merely an annual task that must be endured in the tobacco world. These cosechas are documented, curated, and in most cases, celebrated tasks that are meticulously completed with a knowin... Read More...

Photo Review: Uru Doshi

Jordan Guttormson

February 24, 2020

Cigar Reviews, Dojo Cigars, $8 to $10 Range, 2020, Photo Reviews

Uru Doshi not only marks Cigar Dojo's first collaborative release in 2020, but the first time partnering with the surging Alec & Bradley Cigars—a boutique-minded sub-brand under the Alec Bradley umbrella th... Read More...

89%Magically Delicious

Magic Toast Robusto

Jack Heyer

March 13, 2019

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2019

The Alec Bradley Magic Toast has an origin story that is truly unique. On a trip down to Honduras to visit the Raíces Cubanas factory (Alec Bradley's most frequent manufacturing partner), Alan Rubin and Ralph M... Read More...

87%Textbook Draw

CAO Nicaragua Granada

EL Oso Fumar

October 3, 2018

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2018

The storied history of CAO is one froth with peaks, valleys, and everything in between. Once known for making pipes and building humidors, the company started the bold move into premium cigars during the infamo... Read More...

90%Welcome to the Jungle

CAO Fuma Em Corda

Jordan Guttormson

July 21, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2017

CAO has long been known to push the boundaries, introducing unorthodox packaging, marketing strategies, and highlighting exotic tobaccos that are often unfamiliar to the average enthusiast. This is most evident... 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...

Camacho Corojo Box-Pressed BXP Toro cigar review

90%Corojo Cubed

Camacho Corojo BXP

Steve Stevens

June 6, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2017

There is a rather simple way for a cigar manufacturer to create an extension to a popular brand of parejo-shaped cigars other than just adding another vitola or two—produce the blend in a box-pressed format. Hi... Read More...

89%Earthy

Toraño Exodus

Steve Stevens

February 8, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2017

For over a century, the Toraño family made their living in the tobacco fields of various countries. It began in Cuba in 1916 when Santiago Toraño, a young immigrant from Spain, established Toraño & Company—... Read More...

91%Family Pride

Eiroa The First 20 Years

FrostD

August 10, 2016

Cigar Reviews, $10 to $15 Range, 2016

Christian Eiroa decides to come back with a 20th anniversary blend appropriately titled "The First 20 Years Series". Christian was given the tobacco from his father, Julio Eiroa, to create this special blend in... Read More...

92%Honduran Synthesis

Rocky Patel Twentieth Anniversary

Ben Reed

January 18, 2016

Cigar Reviews, $8 to $10 Range, 2016

Last year, 2015, Rocky Patel celebrated his 20th anniversary in the cigar industry. As is his custom, Rocky released yet another anniversary cigar, the Twentieth Anniversary. Similar to his last two, the Fiftee... Read More...

89%Morning Smoke

CAO Colombia

Eric Guttormson

April 29, 2015

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2015

There are a lot of great exports from Colombia: coffee, tea, emeralds, oil, and even gold! And with its proximity to Ecuador and other tobacco producing countries, it would seem like a great place to grow premi... Read More...

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