Featured Cigars - February 2024

The Banker in your shipment today requires us to travel back to Cuba in 1844. One of the blends they made was so good, unique, and exceptional, they decided to lock that one away in their bank vault only to give out to their most important (wealthiest) clients. While that original blend is long gone, several attempts were made to recreate it, and finally this award winning blend is back for us to enjoy! Starting from the inside is a vintage...

The Bohemian "Bamboo" series is another of the manufacturer's physically beautiful cigars. Draped in a delicious, ultra-smooth and silky Connecticut-seed wrapper with a gentle pig tail twist at the head, its size and shape make it ideal for a medium-length smoke. The filler is a tasty blend of Dominican tobaccos, and the binder is Dominican, as well. Though the taste is quite mild, it is extraordinarily pleasant: deep and complex with distinct...

El Mejor Espresso is a distinctively dark Nicaraguan that melds the smooth subtleties of delicate aging with the kick of hearty Nicaraguan tobaccos. The Mexican San Andrés maduro wrapper is velvety smooth to the touch, with ample oil. Our panel is always torn between smoking these types and eating them up like candy bars (hey—it’s easy to confuse the two—it’s dark, you have to unwrap it, and it’s box-pressed to boot!). The term Espresso is not

If you’re looking for a great handmade that is smooth and creamy and mild enough for any time of day then you are in luck my friend! The Dominican Cream is handmade in the Dominican Republic and features a silky, golden brown, Connecticut wrapper that hugs a Dominican binder and a ‘Cuban-sandwich’ of Dominican fillers. For those unfamiliar with that blending technique, it mostly involves using a short filler rolled inside longer filler...

Nica Libre’s goal is simple: produce traditional and complex blends that can be enjoyed by everyone at affordable prices. While their core line has somewhat of a cult following, one of their most coveted blends, the Nica Libre Silver 25th Anniversary Torpedo, may just be the best yet. This flawless boxed-pressed wonder features a bevy of Nicaraguan vintage long-fillers hugged by a super refined Nicaraguan binder. Finishing this full-bodied...

The Cohiba Puro Dominicana is exactly what its name suggests – a 100% puro from the Dominican Republic. This zesty stogie starts with an oily, super toothy, natural Dominican Habano wrapper, followed by a Dominican binder and a robust blend of Dominican long-fillers. But this stogie isn’t done yet; to maximize the flavors, each tobacco leaf is patiently aged ‘en tercio’ (an airtight bale of tightly wrapped palm leaves) within charcoaled wooden...

Strange name aside, this magical smoke made its debut at the 2018 IPCPR trade show and it’s another fantastic addition to Rubin’s already stellar portfolio that has dozens of 90+ ratings from Cigar Aficionado, Cigar Insider, and Cigar Journal, just to name a few. Hailing from Honduras, the Magic Toast boasts fillers and binders from Nicaragua and Honduras that are secured with an oily and chocolatey Honduran wrapper. Once you toast the foot, you...

With its dark, smooth wrapper, impressive oils that cast a nice shine, and its gentle box-press, the LHC Core is one handsome stogie! The glistening wrapper is a Habano Ecuador sun-grown ligero, the binder is Esteli Habano viso, and the filler consists of all the following tobaccos: Esteli ligero, Jamastran ligero, Pennsylvania Broadleaf and Nicaraguan Ometepe ligero. With this premium boutique cigar, you are in for an unadulterated smoking...

Founder of Southern Draw Cigars, Robert Holt, gives his wife, Sharon, a lot of credit for his success. To thank her, he blended a cigar that is as special as she is; enter the Rose of Sharon. This stunning smoke was handmade at the esteemed AJ Fernandez factory in Nicaragua and is chock full of Dominican ligeros and Nicaraguan long-fillers with a Nicaraguan binder, and is draped artfully with an Ecuadorian Sun Grown Connecticut wrapper. Medium...