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News: Dunhill Aged Range Adds 6 x 60 Gigante Vitola

Dunhill has added a ninth vitola to their Aged Range, a 6 x 60 called the Gigante. The news was announced via Twitter by Serious Cigars, a retailer based in Houston, TX: Dunhill adds the Gigante size (6″ x 60) to the Aged cigar series.tinyurl.com/bexjnrd — Serious Cigars (@SeriousCigars) February 4, 2013 The Dunhill Aged [...]

Review: Partagás Dunhill Selección Suprema No. 281 (1950s)

About two years ago, a good friend of mine called me up and told me he had purchased a sealed box of Dunhill Selección Supremas that he had never heard of or seen before. He asked me to take some photographs of the box, and I told him I would be happy to. In fact, he [...]

Review: Dunhill Aged Reserva Especial 2003

One of the things that seemed to fly under the radar at the 2012 IPCPR convention and trade show was that General Cigar would be manufacturing and distributing Dunhill cigars after they had spent a bit of time at Altadis. The news came out almost right between the 2011 and 2012 trade shows, and when I [...]

Review: Por Larrañaga Dunhill Selection Suprema No. 31 (1960s)

It has been said that Dunhill produced some of the best cigars in the world, and it has been theorized that the reason the cigars were so good was that they were using superior tobacco in all of their blends. However, what some people may not be aware of is that for a time, Dunhill blended their [...]

Review: Dunhill Cabinetta

Today we will be taking a look at yet another vintage cigar for this week, a 1984 Dunhill Cabinetta. It’s no surprise that we at halfwheel absolutely love anything made by Dunhill. Time and time again they knock us off our feet (see here) with their complexity, construction, flavor and almost indescribable smoothness. Dunhill cigars [...]

Review: Flor de A. Allones Dunhill Selección Suprema No.50

Today we will be looking at a very old Dunhill made cigar. Some of you may know that Dunhill not only made cigars for themselves but also had exclusive cigars made under other brands lineups. Originally Dunhill had 3 exclusive brands, Don Cándido, Don Alfredo and Flor Del Punto which were all Dunhill brand cigars. [...]

Weekly News (December 6, 2010)

The impressive C. Gars Ltd Auction finished, with 85% of the lots selling. The ten highest selling lots: Lot 141 Fidel Castro Presidencia Humidor by Elie Bleu containing 150 presidencia cigars (92 Piramides & 52 Robustos), a bunch of vintage Cuban Pesos and signed by El Presidente – £24,000 (37,500) Charity Auction Lot – Romeo [...]

Review: Dunhill Estupendos

For those of you that don’t know… As I have said before, one of the most interesting brands in cigar history has always been Dunhill, and the Dunhill Estupendos is one of the rarest (and most expensive) vitolas that they produced. It is also one of the two vitolas that came in a Tube (the [...]

Weekly News (October 4, 2010)

This past week has been nothing but crazy. Only a few hours after posting the news for the week of September 28th, Dion Giolito of Illusione dropped a bomb: the Nosotros partnership with Drew Estate is over. Pete Johnson launched his new website and gave details on the newest edition of the Monster Series, The [...]

Review: Partagás Dunhill Selección Suprema No.150 (1979)

For those of you that don’t know… In the annals of cigar history, Dunhill is considered to have produced some of the best sticks of all time… The cigars that Dunhill produced are legendary, and it has been theorized that the reason the cigars were so good was that Dunhill was using superior tobacco in [...]