Featured Cigars - March 2023

Rounding out Carlos Toraño’s extremely successful Exodus 1959 series is the Silver Edition. This premium 100% long-filler, handmade cigar honors the Cuban cigar families who escaped Castro’s takeover of their lands and factories in 1959. Its well-aged filler combination of Costa Rican, Honduran and Mexican tobaccos is held together by a Costa Rican binder, then encased in a handsome Honduran Criollo ‘98 wrapper. Look for a moderately oily...

Ramón Bueso is a name that you may or may not have heard of, but that doesn’t mean that you haven’t smoked his wonderfully created cigars. Bueso started in this industry over 40 years ago as a tobacco grower where his family’s land was the first tobacco farm in Honduras. At the ripe age of 15 he became a cigar roller, eventually evolving into factory supervisor at the famous Villazon factory which is the original home base for Honduran cigar...

The Nub Double Maduro, more commonly just called the Nub Dub, marks the second installment in a series of limited edition releases from Studio Tobac, which is one of the many side projects that Oliva Cigars has. Nub cigars are considered to be one of the most innovative cigar concepts with its line of short, corpulent, and well-filled cigars. Knowing that the sweet spot in a typical cigar is about a third of the way through, the Oliva team was...

Having been around since the 1980’s, Avo Uvezian has made his mark in the cigar industry by making some of the most prestigious cigars on the market. Born in 1926 in Beirut, Lebanon, Uvezian was originally known as a musician turned composer, and he is most famously known for writing Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night. In the mid 1980’s Uvezian met cigar master Hendrick Kelner in the Dominican Republic and together they started making...

Out of the gates, John Bull has already been called “the working man’s Excalibur.” The cigar is pretty, with a dark, toothy appearance thanks to the silky Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper that cloaks a Dominican binder and a mellow blend of Nicaraguan and Dominican tobaccos. Together they deliver a fairly smooth, mild to medium-bodied smoke. Upon first light, note the interesting mix of dark tobacco flavors and crisp, mellower tobacco flavors...

The Graywolf in your shipment today was created to commemorate Captain Graysmith’s notorious schooner, Graywolf, which was scuttled in 1726. This smoke features a rich, toothy and oily Cameroon wrapper that looks as good as it tastes, as well as a Honduran binder, and it’s filled to the brim with Honduran long-fillers. This thing is begging to be lit. You’ll notice the easy draw and level burn along with notes of tobacco, nuts, and...

El Rey Del Mundo, which translates to "The King of the World", was one of the most expensive Cuban cigar brands produced in the 20th century and dates back to 1848. Like most great Cuban brands, most are now manufactured outside of Cuba so they can be sold in the United States. However, the El Rey del Mundo Reserva Nicaragua Miami Toro in your shipment today was handmade at the famed El Titan de Bronze in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. It is...

There are many classic pairings out there: peanut butter and jelly, chips and salsa, spaghetti and meatballs, etc. Well the people at Buffalo Trace, who have over 200 years of experience in the distilling business, also thought of another classic pairing: bourbon and cigars! In pursuit of this, they set out to make their own perfect cigar to match their world famous bourbon, and the exceptional result is what you have in your shipment...

The Ave Maria brand is known for its elegance in not only its smokes but in the packaging as well, and the Divinia is no different. Like the others in the Ave Maria portfolio, the Divinia features a stunning band and has the quality that people have come to expect from them. This stunning boxed-pressed handmade features a Habano Sun Grown wrapper that hugs well-aged Nicaraguan Cuban-seed long fillers and a Nicaraguan binder. Once lit, your...