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Review: La Caridad Del Cobre Javelin (Prerelease)

Never heard of La Caridad Del Cobre Cigars? You are probably not alone. This small boutique brand is owned by Frank Herrera a Miami based Intellectual Property attorney. A few years ago he started LCDC Cigars as a side project. He quickly realized that if he was going to be successful in the cigar industry [...]

Review: Casa Magna Domus Magnus Optimus (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In 2008, Cigar Aficionado shocked the cigar world (and yes, I think that “Shocked” is the appropriate term) by naming the newish released Casa Magna as the #1 Cigar of the Year in their ratings. The Casa Magna, a cigar made by Nestor Plasencia for the Quesada family, [...]

Review: Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch No. 1

In 2006, Litto Gomez released the first of his “Small Batch” cigars. The last few years have seen a rise in the “small batch” and “vintage” concepts with each manufacturer claiming that for some reason or another their idea was novel. However, the majority of those manufacturers, while not necessarily copying Litto, certainly were following [...]

Redux: E.P. Carrillo Edición Inaugural 2009

Today we will be looking at the , a cigar I reviewed way back in August of 2009. This turned out to be one of those cigars people loved or hated for various reasons, but I loved the cigar back then, mostly due to the incredible balance and complex, albeit fairly light, flavors. Here is what [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Elencos Don Rubino

Today we will be taking a look at a cigar we had planned on reviewing back when it came out in April, but decided to hold it for this week, the E.P. Carrillo Elencos! In Late 2010 E.P. Carrillo, released their Edición Limitada, a 6 x 54 Double Robusto sporting a Brazilian Habano wrapper with [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Core Line Maduro Club 52 (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Back in the cigar boom of the 1990′s, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. was extremely well known for his cigars that he blended for La Gloria Cubana and the sticks with Maduro wrappers were some of his most popular and noted cigars. Everyone knew that E.P. Carrillo, Ernesto’s new company, would [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Short Run 2011 Cañonazos

  The E.P. Carrillo Short Run is back for another year. First, a quick look back at the “Short Run 2010.” The Short Run 2010 production was approximately 108,000 cigars featuring an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, Nicaraguan Criollo binder, and Nicaraguan and Dominican filler   The Short Run 2011 shares a couple of similarities with its [...]

Review: El Centurion Lancero

I started Lancero50 with what I consider the perennial favorite amongst the mainstream releases as the best regular production Lancero on the market today, the My Father No. 4. And so fittingly, on Father’s Day nonetheless, I end with another cigar from the García family, one of the most prized and cigar that many thought [...]

Review: Don Pepin Garcia Blue Label Lancero

The Blue Label is the only offering from the Holiday Lancero Sampler to be available in another form, or so we think. I’ve had a few of the Puff n’ Stuff, but haven’t been able to compare them directly to those in the sampler. (This review is one out of the sampler.) Given the timeline [...]

Review: My Uzi Weighs a Ton 5 x 60 (Prerelease)

The newest release from Jonathan Drew, My Uzi Weighs a Ton (MUWAT) is the end product of a journey that started with Jonathan creating a blend during on the Cigar Safari tours last November. As Jonathan himself said: “The beginning of the project actually started during the B.O.T.L tour because this was the very first [...]