Recently our own David Garofalo was at the Habanos Festival where he was able to secure some cigars for review here on The Cigar Authority. The first of two cigars that we plan to review is the Cuaba 20th Anniversary. The Cuaba was officially launched 20 years ago in 1996 at the Claridge Hotel in London, England. To date all of the Cuaba cigars have been part of the perfecto family. The brand was launched […]
For the last 20 years not only has he made some of the most popular cigars in the industry, but he has also fought for our rights as cigar smokers in the public eye like no other manufacturer has done. To commemorate the 20th Rocky Patel has released a cigar that is described on his website as, “Celebrating 20 years in the business of creating iconic cigars, we couldn’t deliver something short of magnificent. This […]
This weekend on The Cigar Authority we will discuss the winners of The 2015 Cigar Trophy Awards as presented by Cigar Journal magazine. Last year it feels as if the awards were dominated by Flor de Selva and Maya Selva Cigars who this year began to make a push to improve their footprint in the American market. The company which is headed by Maya Selva, a Franco-Honduran; began selling cigars in France in 1995 and […]
In 1995 Rocky Patel entered the cigar industry and to commemorate 20 years in the business, he debuted the new 20th Anniversary at the 2015 IPCPR. Made in Honduras the cigar features a Honduran wrapper and fillers from Jamastran (Honduras) as well as Esteli and Jalapa (Nicaragua) The cigar is available in 6 box pressed sizes.
The Perdomo 20th Anniversary features tobaccos grown on Perdomo’s farms in Esteli, Condega and Jalapa Valley in Nicaragua. Each cigar in the Perdomo 20th Anniversary is barrel-aged in bourbon barrels for 14 months. The cigars are available in both a Sun-Grown and Maduro format with 6 different vitals. Cigar: Perdomo 20th Anniversary Size: Robusto (5 x 56) Wrapper: Sun Grown Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Nicaragua Strength: Medium-Full The Look: The Perdomo 20th Anniversary Robusto is a soft box pressed beauty with a reddish-brown wrapper […]
Fresh off his appearance on The Cigar Authority Radio Show we ran into Jon Carney at IPCPR in Las Vegas. While we discussed many of the 2014 New Releases in an earlier post, we get a first hand look at the new beer stein that goes along with the new 1994 cigar. Although this is a limited edition it definitely looks like something worthy of being tracked down.
As we pre-record our Saturday broadcast with Jon Carney from La Flor Dominicana I am going to attempt to do my first ever live blogging cigar review. Today’s cigar is the new 1994 from Litto Gomez’ La Flor Dominicana… The cigar comes in 4 sizes and has a wrapper from San Andreas with binder and filler from the Dominican Republic. Cigar: La Flor Dominicana 1994 Size: Mamba (7 x 52) Wrapper: San Andreas Binder: Dominican Republic Filler: Dominican Republic […]