How do you follow up being named cigar of the year for 2021? You change up the wrapper on the All Saints Saint Francis. This new release from All Saints takes the binder and filler from the award winning release and adds a Habano Colorado wrapper. Made at TAVICUSA in Nicaragua, a cigar factory owned by Rocky Patel the Saint Francis Colorado comes in 4 sizes and today we take a look at the Robusto. […]
Turning 85 is a big deal, and Tabacalera Palma wanted to do something just as exciting to commemorate this incredible feat. When they sat down to think of ways to accurately convey what this occasion meant to them, they decided to consult their fathers. Jochy Blanco revisited dozens of scribbles and stand-alone paragraphs in his father’s notebooks and reexamined the tobacco growing and processing wisdom of two generations, along with the cigar manufacturing wisdom of one generation. […]
Over the last couple of years it feels like the Winston Churchill Limited Edition from Davidoff has become one of those cigars you seek out. From it’s luxurious packaging to its refined blend I’ve come across more people anxiously awaiting the release. Like many Limited Edition cigars they size changes up from year to year and the 2022 release is no different. This year the cigar measures 5 7/8 x 61 and I can’t help […]
The La Gianna Havana brand first came to market in 1994 and has continued non-stop ever since. Totalamente Hecho a Mano in Spanish means “totally made by hand” using tobaccos from Danli, Honduras and this is where and how La Gianna Havana cigars were born. Danli has been a tobacco source and cigar manufacturing region since 1765, when the Spanish crown established a royal tobacco trading post. In recent years, the brand underwent a packaging change with new […]
In January of 2020, The Cigar Authority podcast send out a sample of a cigar to their care package members that was in consideration to become the new Abuelo cigar in the United Cigar Group portfolio. That cigar was met with overwhelming positive comments and the cigar went into production. Now shortly after our own David Garofalo became a grandfather, the cigar has reached the market. Abuelo means grandfather in Spanish and the Abuelo cigar […]
United Cigars has begun shipping Garofalo La Famiglia following the press release of the new Garofalo La Famiglia in December of 2020. The new Garofalo La Famiglia is a special collaboration between New England retailer David Garofalo and Nick Perdomo, Jr., president, and CEO of Perdomo Cigars. “Making a special line of cigars for my close friend, David Garofalo, is an honor for the Perdomo family,” states Nick Perdomo, Jr. “The original Garofalo Legacy Series has been a […]
Turning 85 is a big deal, and Tabacalera Palma wanted to do something just as exciting to commemorate this incredible feat. When they sat down to think of ways to accurately convey what this occasion meant to them, they decided to consult their fathers. Jochy Blanco revisited dozens of scribbles and stand-alone paragraphs in his father’s notebooks and reexamined the tobacco growing and processing wisdom of two generations, along with the cigar manufacturing wisdom of one generation. […]
United Cigars has begun shipping Garofalo La Famiglia following the press release of the new Garofalo La Famiglia in December of 2020. The new Garofalo La Famiglia is a special collaboration between New England retailer David Garofalo and Nick Perdomo, Jr., president, and CEO of Perdomo Cigars. “Making a special line of cigars for my close friend, David Garofalo, is an honor for the Perdomo family,” states Nick Perdomo, Jr. “The original Garofalo Legacy Series has been a […]
Attendees of the 2021 PCA Trade Show, an annual convention held by the Premium Cigar Association, retailers, were able to purchase cigars that were only available to those in attendance. One of the companies that offered such a product was Tom Lazuka’s Asylum Cigars. The cigar also features a hybrid Habano wrapper grown by Julio R. Eiroa in Honduras that has never been used before. Cigar Review: Asylum PCA Exclusive Wrapper: Honduras Hybrid Habano Binder: Honduras Filler: Honduras Length: 6″ […]
In December 2020, United Cigars announced the release of the new Garofalo La Famiglia cigar line which has begun shipping to retailers. The new Garofalo La Famiglia is a special collaboration between New England retailer David Garofalo and Nick Perdomo, Jr., president, and CEO of Perdomo Cigars. “Making a special line of cigars for my close friend, David Garofalo, is an honor for the Perdomo family,” states Nick Perdomo, Jr. “The original Garofalo Legacy Series has been a […]