Featured Cigars - July 2021

The 5 Vegas brand (read “cinco vegas”) is one of our favorite top shelf premiums. Delivering consistently superior construction and blends, 5 Vegas always delivers big in the flavor department. Hailing from the rich soils of Nicaragua, the 5 Vegas Nicaragua features a blend of Nicaraguan fillers and binder that is hugged by a stunning Ecuadorian Habano wrapper. Toast the foot and enjoy medium bodied, palate pleasing notes of caramel and leather...

General Cigar has been delivering high-quality cigars since 1848, including such greats as Bolivar, Cifuentes, Cohiba, Partagas, Punch, and Macanudo, which is what you have received today. Macanudo is one of the top selling cigars in the world due to their consistently mild and pleasant character and exceptional construction. Macanudo is also a brand that doesn’t do gimmicks, ploys, stories, or anything with crazy marketing; they have stayed...

The Kristoff brand was established by Glen Case in 2004 and is one of the fastest growing boutique manufacturers in the cigar industry. With simple packaging and without the use of flashy names, Kristoff lets the cigars speak for themselves. We can hear them loud and clear! Known for their bold and refined flavors as well as immaculate construction, Kristoff has assembled some of the finest master blenders with generations of experience.

Arganese cigars may not be a household name yet, but Gene Arganese didn’t intend it to be. After a long and successful career as a real estate developer, his passion for cigars turned into a hobby as he started making cigars for his own enjoyment and later for friends and family. After his friends, family, and clients began calling him begging for more, he found some people who would make his cigars in Santiago, Dominican Republic part-time...

Kaizad Hansotia has an inspiring resume which includes such top-rated blends as Gurkha, K. Hansotia and Sherpa. One thing we’ve noticed (perhaps you have as well) is the extra attention to detail that goes in to his cigar labels. The K. Hansotia Park Avenue Churchill is a great smoke. This is a cigar that in construction and quality compares favorably to cigars costing two or three times as much! Panelists found it to be quite smooth with just...

The legendary Romeo y Julieta brand is a favorite among premium cigar fans. They consistently produce sticks that live up to their Cuban heritage, and the Viejo is no exception. Panelists say it may be their best ever. Thick and smooth, with an oily sheen and triple cap, it’s gorgeous. Its super-smooth, thick, slightly toothy maduro wrapper is grown in the famed San Andrés Valley of Mexico. Inside, this smoke features a Criollo ’98 binder...

Ramon Allones is a prerevolutionary Cuban brand that was established between 1837 and 1845. The brand has changed hands several times and eventually landed with Partagás. While Ramon Allones hit it big in the United Kingdom during its heyday in the 1920’s, the brand has been in slow decline ever since. Wanting to make a comeback, they called upon the one and only legendary AJ Fernandez to re-blend the Ramon Allones cigars, the first to be...

Cigar master Daniel Nunez has created a beauty that was introduced in 2006 at the RTDA (Retail Tobacco Dealers of America) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Featuring a Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper that is oily, dark, and hearty, the Cohiba Black is filled with a blend of Dominican and Mexican long-leaf fillers, then is bound with a special sungrown Dominican Piloto leaf that has been aged in tercio for over three years. In case you don’t know...

La Perla Habana is one of the most coveted labels in cigar history. Two of the industry's most respected entrepreneurs, Sergio Cuevas and Doug Wood, took it upon themselves to recreate La Perla Habana, a well-known Cuban brand, in the Dominican Republic. They’ve created a cigar in which commitment, quality, and flavor are paramount: a cigar worthy of its name, “Pearl of Havana.” We think they've done an exceptional job with this highly rated...