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Named for the founding father of Oliva Cigars, the Oliva Serie V Melanio is composed of aged Nicaraguan ligero tobaccos beneath a slick Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper. The Oliva family has had a near-flawless track record of making awesome cigars as of late, so naturally I was expecting good things when I set out to evaluate […]
CyB is the first joint cigar creation of the Joya de Nicaragua factory with the collaboration of famed cigar maker Jose Blanco since he joined the company in 2011. These premium smokes were originally called “Cuenca y Blanco”, before undergoing a name change to avoid any confusion with other similarly-named brands. A change of pace […]
A couple of weeks ago George Rico (Gran Habano, G.A.R.) came by the office for a visit and was kind enough to drop off a few samples of his new limited release cigar under the S.T.K. imprint, the G.A.R. Opium. Only 1000 boxes of 20 were produced of the Opium, which features a Habano/Corojo hybrid […]
The story of Drew Estate is not your typical cigar story; it’s one of trial and error, striving for the impossible and reaching for a dream. Drew Estate has been making cigars since 1998 when two fraternity brothers, Jonathan Drew and Marvin Samel, started selling cigars in a small kiosk in the World Trade Center […]
The new small-batch offering from Quesada cigars, the Quesada Jalapa has the same filler/binder blend (Nicaraguan and Dominican filler with Dominican binder) as the immensely popular Quesada Espana. The difference is that these new small-batch stogies are wrapped in a Nicaraguan Jalapa claro wrapper, the result of an experimental crop grown by Nestor Plasencia back […]