Since its founding in 1996, Alec Bradley Cigar Co. has partnered with manufacturers throughout Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic to craft its now-vast portfolio of premium cigars. While these manu... Read More...
For those that concern themselves with more than a given cigar's branding, country of origin, and advertised body—the smokers that traverse through the weeds to find correlations with seed varietal, farms, and ... Read More...
Lords of England comes by way of Pure Aroma Cigars Inc., parent company of the better-known D'Crossier Cigars brand. While D'Crossier's cigars were known for their refined, Cuban-esque smoking profiles, the Lor... Read More...
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
— George Washington
The introduction to this review is appropriately one sentence. Everything about this cigar, even its essence, is 100-per... Read More...
Now in their fourth year of establishing Plasencia as a premium cigar brand, Plasencia Cigars released Alma del Fuego at this year’s IPCPR trade show. The third of five cigars set to be released in the Alma Ser... Read More...
Diesel is different now. No longer simply a serviceable, discount catalog/auction offering, Diesel became a full-fledged General Cigar brand in 2017, moving the Diesel Grind brand under the General Cigar umbrel... Read More...
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...
Simply put, Steve Saka is an unstoppable force in the current premium cigar market. Hell, he’s been unstoppable for a while now. Sure, he had to take some time off after departing Drew Estate (acting as the com... Read More...
Once considered one of the better-kept secrets in the world of premium cigars, JRE Tobacco and their Aladino line of cigars are now beginning to crop up in craft humidors across the country. This is, in no smal... Read More...
When the JRE Tobacco Company debuted in the summer of 2015, the company trotted out a straightforward portfolio of three brands: Aladino, Rancho Luna, and Tatascan. Taking on an old-school approach, the company... Read More...
In the year 2004, Davidoff made a breakthrough in terms of cigar blending and craftsmanship, introducing what the company claims to be the world's first cigar blend to contain seven different tobaccos. The diff... Read More...
A common mantra frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson:
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Is it possible we’ve found the Thomas Jefferson of the cigar i... Read More...