Reading Time: 4 minutes Gary takes a tour of Caldwell’s The King Is Dead Escape Plan The Grand Tour. Rolled to a 5”x54 Robusto, this vitola now boasts a soft box-pressing and a spicy Mexican San Andrés wrapper. Watch now and see where the Tour ended-up.
Reading Time: 2 minutes CAO Cigars has added a new three cigar selection to their legendary ‘X’ series. CAO BX3 is blended with three Brazilian-grown tobaccos starting with a Brazilian Mata Fina wrapper, plus an Arapiraca binder and another Brazilian leaf in the filler. Learn more about them here.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Romeo y Julieta is introducing two new additions to their Reserva Real line this summer. Handcrafted in two sizes, the Reserva Real Twisted Love Story and Twisted Toro cigars, each rolled in Barberpole selections. Learn more about these innovative releases here.
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a first for Excalibur Cigars, a new one-size collaboration cigar between Justin Andrews of STG and Illusione Cigars founder, Don Giolito, has been released in limited edition. Blended entirely with long-aged, Nicaraguan tobaccos, learn more about this special Excalibur Illusione No.1 cigar here.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The CAO Arcana Firewalker uses a Nicaraguan aging method called Chincagre in which the filler tobaccos are buried deep in volcanic soil for 60 days. Whatever contributions it makes to this medium-full cigar’s flavor and performance you’ll learn in this review, and more.
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a first for the historic brand, La Gloria Cubana is releasing La Gloria Serie S cigars, the first La Gloria to use a Mexican San Andrés wrapper. Medium-full in strength, the three cigar selection is rolled in large ring gauges. Learn more here…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this latest H. Upmann collaboration between AJ Fernandez & Rafael Nodal, Gary gives the H. Upmann Nicaragua AJ Fernandez Heritage Robusto a spin. Rolled with a triple fermented Brazilian Mata Fina wrapper over rare, AJ-grown Nicaraguan fillers, see how well this cigar performed now.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Originally created as a gift to their dad from Alec and Bradley Rubin, Alec Bradley Cigars has released a special ‘Taste of the World Chunk’ limited edition sampler for Father’s Day 2022. Presented with eight exclusive 4¼” x 60 vitolas, learn more about this special sampler here.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is there little or no difference between box and bundle versions of the same cigar? Perhaps. This review of the Rocky Patel Factory Selects Edge Corojo Toro makes a pretty good case for the more economical bundle. Watch now and read all about it.
