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Review: Toraño Exodus 1959 50 Years Box-Pressed Robusto (Prerelease)

Today we will be reviewing another new release from the 2010 IPCPR trade show. Many of you are very familiar with the Carlos Toraño name as well as their Exodus 1959 50 years line. There are currently 3 vitolas in the line…. Robusto (Box-Pressed) — 5 x 50 Short Churchill — 6 x 48 Torpedo [...]

News: Cuba to Allow for Private Jobs

It’s unclear how this will affect Habanos S.A., but the new policy announced today will without a doubt have a large impact on the cigar industry. Private farming has been allowed for a while, but the expansion of private jobs in Cuba is a first. Havana, Cuba (CNN) — Cuba announced on Monday it would [...]

Review: My Father Limited Edition 2010

For those of you that don’t know, in October of 2009, the rumor mill started putting out some details on a brand new, very limited Pepín cigar that was going to have quite a few firsts for the industry. While unnamed at the time, it was eventually dubbed the My Father Limited Edition 2010. At [...]

Weekly News (September 13, 2010)

The La Aurora 107 Lancero is being released for orders literally right now… Anyways, hopefully I’ll get ahold of them soon. If you’d like more information about how to order, you can find information here. I should note, after talking to Jason Wood of Miami Cigar Co., I should stress there are only three-hundred boxes [...]

Review: Padrón Family Reserve No. 46 Maduro

It’s been 46 years since José Orlando Padrón started selling cigars. Having sold over 100 million cigars to date, Padrón is one of the most prestigious brands out there today. The skill and passion they have for cigars is obvious in the many different cigars they release. Whether you are smoking a Padrón 2000 or [...]

News: La Aurora 107 Lancero Confirmed

First off, I apologize for the lack of updates, the hotel WiFi is awful. Straight from Mr. Jason Wood’s Twitter account, it’s confirmed – the La Aurora 107 Lancero is happening. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a bit, but it’s coming. I spoke to Mike from Buckhead Cigar and he confirmed that the first sampling, even [...]

Review: Nestor Miranda Art Deco Robusto Grande (Prerelease)

[Editor's Note: Well, it seems that despite all of the information, marketing and rumors to the contrary, there is NO Pelo de Oro leaf in the Nestor Miranda Art Deco blend. It must have been an EXTREMELY bad FU, as even the samples from the the IPCPR show, that was only 3 weeks ago, if [...]

Review: Guillermo León Belicoso (Prerelease)

[Editor's Note: This is a review of a Prerelease cigar that was released at the IPCPR Show in New Orleans a few weeks ago. Most of the time, we in the blog community are only given one sample of any cigar that is released at the show, and so most of the reviews in this [...]

Review: J. Fuego Origen Originals (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Around April of this year, J. Fuego started releasing a new cigar onto the market in very small quantities, called the “Origen Original”, a new vitola in the Origen line…The idea behind this vitola was quite different then his other cigars, (and truth be told, quite different then [...]

Weekly News (September 6, 2010)

I guess my excuse for this being late is that it’s Labor Day, so I took some time off. The big news of the week was out of Santiago, DR (or wherever Guillermo León was at the time), my beloved La Aurora 107 Lanceros will be shipping boxes of twenty-one on October 7, 2010 (10/7) [...]