Tagged Toro

August 18, 2017

Undercrown Sun Grown is the third and highly anticipated release in Drew Estate's popular Undercrown line of cigars. Drew Estate introduced Undercrown in 2011, marketing the cigars as an affordable alternative ... Read More...

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Kentucky Fire Cured Swamp Thang

June 30, 2017

When Drew Estate's Kentucky Fire Cured cigars were released in 2013, the cigars landed in the midst of a brief cigar boom of fire-cured tobacco experimentation. And while some would say Drew Estate was late to ... Read More...

Camacho Cigar Dojo Imperial Stout Barrel-Aged cigar review

Photo Review: Imperial Stout Barrel-Aged

June 28, 2017

Cigar Reviews, Dojo Cigars, $8 to $10 Range, 2017, Photo Reviews

Cigar Dojo has teamed with Camacho Cigars to introduce our most ambitious collaboration to date: Imperial Stout Barrel-Aged. For this, the Dojo's seventh limited edition cigar project, we have aligned several m... Read More...

Camacho Corojo Box-Pressed BXP Toro cigar review

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Camacho Corojo BXP

June 6, 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...

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Cohiba Macassar Toro Grande

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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Florida Sun Grown Limited Edition Trunk-Pressed Toro

May 9, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $10 to $15 Range, 2017

Drew Estate's Florida Sun Grown (FSG) cigar line was officially announced in May of 2016, going on to debut at the first-ever Florida Barn Smoker event on June 4, 2016. Florida Sun Grown is unique in that it ut... Read More...

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E.P. Carrillo Dusk

April 14, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $5 to $8 Range, 2017

Fate has a peculiar way of uprooting the plans of mere mortals. For example, Ernesto Pérez-Carrillo, Jr. did not set out to pioneer the popularity of highly-rated “boutique” blends. Nor did he set out to become... Read More...

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Plasencia Alma Fuerte

April 4, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $15 & Over, 2017

Until recent years, it has been the common convention—perhaps written in stone and delivered as a sort of "cigar bible" to the first consumers of hand-rolled tobacco—that all respectable manufacturers be direct... Read More...

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Fuente Fuente OpusX 20 Years Celebration

March 27, 2017

Cigar Reviews, $15 & Over, 2017

1992. For lovers of the grape, it was an unremarkable year—the vine destroying louse, Phylloxera ran rampart throughout California, while rains of biblical proportions devastated the vineyards in southern Franc... Read More...

Camacho Ecuador Box-Pressed BXP toro cigar review

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Camacho Ecuador BXP

March 16, 2017

After re-envisioning the Camacho brand as the "Bold Standard" in 2013—arguably among the most drastic and influential cigar overhauls in the last decade or more—Camacho built upon their newly simplified lineup ... Read More...

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