CA Report: Top New Cigars (March 18, 2024)
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week in Top New Cigars, we review the latest blends from Plasencia, Alec Bradley, and Tatiana. Check out their stories, flavors, and discover if they’re deserving of a home in your humidor!
Great information on bundle sticks. Nica Rustica (one of the best kept secrets in cigars, my opinion of course) is one of my go to smokes and I have never been bothered by the fact it comes as a bundle. Boxes can be very cool and one can admire the artistry that goes to make a great design, but that does have to be paid for some how. Nice article, thanks.
I really enjoy a good MUWAT. The brown paper wrapping is just fine with me. I mean, how many boxes can I store on the shelf in the garage?
Just added Drew Estate Factory Smokes Maduro to my humi. Bundles of 25 and quite good.
How about adding some of your preferred bundle smokes.
Great article that completely misses the most serious consideration in the cigar making process. Each huge batch of tobacco is tested after its fernentation process is over. Yes, the finest looking leaves go in the most expensive cigars, but the first consideration is taste. Taste is the most important aspect in pricing crops of tobacco leaves. The leaves that are acrid and vulgar go ito the buck a stick bundles, and so on up the price ladder. Any stick that costs five bucks, whether in box or bundle looks and tastes excellent. The thing that amuses me about cigar sales people is, like used car salesmen, are such bee essers, that they never tell you that all crappy tobacco crops go straight to bundles, and are rarely boxed. The quality of bundles is price driven. Boxes never account for a huge price increase. The wealthy will pay whatever, and us poor people smoke crap on a low budget, but in the end, any cigar is better than no cigar, and the rich, and the poor, end up in the same dirt just like the tobacco leaves grow in.
Great article, I’m a box buyer, it’s true I’m guilty I like my humidors stuffed with pretty boxes. I do however now that I think about it buy my daily smokes ( Drew Estate Red Eyes) in 5 packs when I find the great sale price or More recently (Drew Estate Factory Smokes sweet) they are great too and they don’t even come in Boxes!! I’m buying bundles and didn’t even realize till just now. John as usual your the tip of the spear, thanks for your work, and for giving Tommy Z his meds 😉 BillVan in Harrison, AR
Acid makes some really attractive dovetailed wooden boxes, especially for Kuba Kubas… but after giving away a bunch, nowadays I just keep REFILLING the same one.
I have no problem with bundled cigars, I’m always trying to load off my empty boxes. I also buy a lot of 5 pks that come in baggies.
Great article. Pete Johnson even puts out some fantastic bundle cigars. Im not sold on bundles that are labled factory overruns because the cigars will constantly be changing you never know what blend the cigars are. But for the some of the bundles that have a trade mark name on them it can be a great way to have Quility smoke that you would other wise pay twice as much for.
Great insight to bundles / bundle brands!
Thanks for sharing a detail knowledge of Cigar. Amazing post. Keep sharing more as this.
I bought a 10 pack of Davidoff vintage release 2021 and it came in a brown paper bundle. Looks great and saved me money. I wish that I could buy box cigars in bundles and save a few dollars. I do not need any more empty cigar boxes.
If Davidoff can release in bundles, then anyone can do it.