Featured Cigars - August 2017

For cigar aficionados, the Camacho brand is synonymous with “full” – as in full-bodied, full-flavored, and full of character. Their blends usually promise a powerful well-balanced smoke brimming with aromatic flavor. This is precisely why Camacho makers Christian and Julio Eiroa have developed such a loyal cult-like following – that and their profile of 90+ rated cigars, including this one to which Cigar Aficionado gave a rating of 91. Handmade...

Released in October 2010 by General Cigar, the La Gloria Cubana Serie N is the sister brand to the already popular La Gloria Cubana Serie R line. Wanting a richer and bolder cigar to add to the lineup, General Cigar’s production manager, Yuri Guillen, created this beauty with the help of Michael Giannini and Rick Rodriguez – collectively known as Team La Gloria Cubana. Bound and filled with a Nicaraguan proprietary blend, it is then finished...

Part of the AVO Improvisation Series, the AVO 90th Classic Covers Limited Edition was created to celebrate the 90th birthday of Avo Uvezian (who passed away in March of 2017 at the age of 91), a true embodiment of the jazz-loving musician and cigar impresario. With six different tobaccos from three countries, this bad boy begins with a mixture of rare long-leaf ligeros from the Dominican Republic that have been aged for 10 to 11 years. Securing...

Premiering in the US market in 2009, the Assassin hails from Honduras and is blended by cigar master Paul Flores. It all begins with a thick and oily Brazilian Maduro wrapper that has been extra fermented, securing a Cuban-seed Dominican binder from the Cibao Valley and a bold core of aged long-fillers from Peru and Nicaragua. This stick is full of charisma, full of flavor, and medium to full-bodied with chewy hints of espresso beans, hearty...

Being well-versed in the old world cigar traditions, Felix Mesa draws from three ancestral generations of tobacco cultivation in Cuba’s famed central region. Now hailing from Nicaragua where it is handmade at Mesa’s own factory, the El Galan Campechano Maduro begins with a beautiful Ecuadorian Maduro wrapper which enrobes a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan picadura filler (short fillers) from Jalapa, Condega, and Esteli. With excellent...

The Padilla brand is built upon high quality, low volume handmades that utilize rare, very expensive materials. It continues to earn high ratings, receive top honors, and wow enthusiasts at the same time. The Padilla 1948 was released to commemorate the 1948 publishing of Las Rosas Audaces, the first book by Ernesto Padilla’s father, renowned Cuban poet Herberto Padilla. This stogie was around for a few years then disappeared, but it’s back...

The Boss Cigar Company first made their appearance in the tobacco industry in early 1996 with a production run of just over 600 boxes. Boss’ master blender is a third-generation Cuban tabacalero, whose factory in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, employs five seasoned Cuban master rollers. Blended by the famed Henke Kelner, Jr. in the Dominican Republic, this immaculately constructed cigar features a Brazilian Habano wrapper, a Dominican...

Debuting at the 2016 IPCPR (International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association) Convention & Trade Show, the Montecristo Pilotico Pepe Mendez commemorates Pepe Mendez, a Cuban exile who many acknowledge as being responsible for achieving better consistency and cleaner flavors out tobaccos. He is also credited for discovering “El Cibao”, a region in the Dominican Republic known for its fertile soils and rocky terrain. It was there that...

This one of a kind stogie comes from the mastermind Kaizad Hansotia; you might not be able to say it three times fast, but the name has rapidly swept through the cigar industry. Known as the master blender behind the tremendous Gurkha brand, he's admired for his mastery of fine tobacco blending and creativity in developing attractive packaging for his cigars. The Cojimar Private Collection Maduro is named after the famed fishing village...