Featured Cigars - December 2017

The J.C. Newman Cigar Company has been around since 1895, and it was all started by Julius Caesar Newman rolling his first cigar in his family’s barn in Cleveland, Ohio. Once he discovered his passion for cigars, he moved his family down to Tampa and quickly earned a world-class reputation for producing high-quality premium cigars. Even though most of their cigars these days are made in the Dominican Republic, in 2009 the family started...

We love when a new cigar comes our way; we love it even more when it’s packed with flavor and the construction is flawless. We love it even more when we find one that you can’t get anywhere else and is exclusive to you, our members. The Varina Farms Winter Warmer is all of those thing in one small, tasty morsel. The Winter Warmer features a blend comprised of a hearty Nicaraguan core and binder that comes from the rich volcanic soils of...

The Gran Habano Zulu Zulu Mas Paz White is a great example of the quality and craftsmanship they are known for. The name can be a mouth full, but this cigar was partly named after famed Colombian street artist Federico Frum, who goes by the name Mas Paz. It was also made in extremely limited quantities with a portion of the proceeds going to help renovation efforts for the orphanage La Casa de la Madre y el Niño that Mas Paz was adopted from...

Erin Go Bragh may not be as picturesque as the rolling hills of Ireland but with its smooth, lovely, golden-brown Connecticut shade wrapper it must be close. Its orange, white and green band is a tribute to the Irish flag and its name – Erin Go Bragh – means “Ireland forever,” so the fact that it’s infused with authentic Irish whiskey is no surprise. The surprise is for those wary of flavored cigars. With its subtle and nuanced flavor this baby...

The La Palina Black Label is the strongest cigar that La Palina makes to date. It starts with an extremely dark, oily, silky-smooth, and flawless Brazilian Maduro wrapper that hugs a Nicaraguan binder and finishes with a core of long-leaf ligeros from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. While this is cigar is considered medium to full-boided, we would say that it leans more towards the full side and has complex yet uber-refined notes of spice...

Ashton Distributors have owned several cigar brands for more than 25 years. Though there are several other micro-brands out there in the cigar market, there are very few that have been built as well as Ashton’s La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor. The La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor is a former #2 cigar of Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25 in 2011 but made the list again in 2016 coming in at #13 with an impressive 93 rating! Handmade at Don Pepin Garcia’s Nicaraguan...

President and CEO of the Nat Sherman brand, Joel Sherman, began working with his family’s company in 1960 at the tender age of 21. The Joel Sherman Limited Edition 75th Celebration was created in very limited quantities to commemorate his 75th birthday. This handmade from the Dominican Republic starts with a filler core and binder leaves from the Dominican and is held together with an impressive Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper. Perfectly...

Hailing from the La Zona factory in Nicaragua, the Espinosa Laranja Reserva is another blend that has earned a well-deserved rating of 94 and earning the #13 spot in the 2015 Top 25 from Cigar Aficionado. Looking at this unique stick, the first thing you might notice is the orange hue of the Brazilian Laranja wrapper that comes from the Reconcavo region of Bahia, Brazil, hence the name, Laranja, meaning orange in Portuguese. If you have never...

Nat Sherman founded his company in New York at the height of the Great Depression in 1930. Seemingly a strange time to jump in to the high-end cigar market, Nat Sherman saw an opportunity; his premium cigars would be enjoyed by people of status, and were seen along with them in the public eye—fashion executives, show business superstars and of course, the omnipresent gangsters of the day. While others were feeling the effects of the Great...