Featured Cigars - October 2024

Debuting at the IPCPR Trade Show (International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers) in 2018, the La Gloria Cubana Estelí is a modern interpretation of the classic La Gloria Cubana cigar. Handcrafted to perfection, this bold smoke starts with a with a rich ligero wrapper from Nicaragua’s Jalapa Valley that hugs a Honduran Jamastran binder and Honduran Jamastran and Nicaraguan La Entrada fillers. Medium to full bodied, expect notes of cedar, spice...

While most of the Partagas cigars are created in the Dominican Republic, the Partagas Valle Verde in your shipment was handcrafted in Honduras. This complex blend starts with Nicaraguan Estelí Ligero, Nicaraguan Jalapa, and Mexican San Andrés fillers, followed by a Cameroon binder, and finishing with a Mexican San Andrés wrapper, making this the first Partagas cigar to feature the San Andrés. Smooth and complex, this smoke will lend notes of...

It wasn’t long ago that Xikar was only known for their lifetime guaranteed high-end cigar accessories and not their lines of premium cigars which they offer as well, some with 90+ point ratings! The band on their HC Series cigars features palm trees that are meant to represent the El Corojo farm in Cuba where the famed Corojo tobacco was developed. The Xikar HC (Havana Collection) Series Habano Colorado not only has a 92 rating from...

The man behind the highly rated 601 brand, Erik Espinosa, is back! To say he knows cigars is an understatement – to say the least – as he’s worked with Alec Bradley, Gurkha, Rocky Patel, and Drew Estate, just to name a few. Born in Cuba, Erik is one of the best in the business and has just about mastered every aspect of the cigar industry while earning high ratings for his impressive creations. This month’s psychedelic themed creation is...

The REO Chairman is a beautifully crafted stick. The cigar's dark Costa Rican maduro wrapper is an evenly colored deep chocolate brown, smooth, with minimal veins and a somewhat oily feel. The cigar lights easily and burns evenly with a firm gray ash. The blend is a mixture of aged Honduran and Nicaraguan long-fillers with a Nicaraguan binder, delivering complex flavors ranging from sweet nuts to mild, mellow maduro flavors, to chocolate with...

Rocky Patel is one of the hardest working men in the industry and according to some, nearly mythical. The Sun Grown Maduro is an exciting addition to his already widely popular and staple Sun Grown line that was released over a decade ago. Unlike the original line which is still produced in Honduras, the Sun Grown Maduro is handmade at Rocky Patel’s boutique factory, Tavicusa, in Estelí, Nicaragua. It also was given a well-deserved...

The Graycliff 10 Year Vintage Maduro Pirate is another top-notch cigar to come out of Honduras. This medium to full bodied smoke offers an ultra-refined and fully matured dark and oily Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, a delicious Honduran binder, and extensively aged, exquisite long-fillers from Honduras and Nicaragua. Light it up and find lots of smoke with a razor sharp burn and rich, deep flavors of cedar and cocoa, with a creamy, earthy...

AVO is normally known for their mild to medium bodied smokes with classic Dominican profiles but the Syncro line seeks new and diverse flavors from other tobacco-rich regions. The AVO Syncro Nicaragua in your shipment today is the first box-pressed cigar for AVO and is their first cigar to feature nutrient-rich tobacco from the black soils of Ometepe, Nicaragua. Inside this handsome smoke you will find Nicaraguan, Dominican, and Peruvian...

The Crowned Heads Mil Días is named after the 1,000 days it took to create. Yes, that’s right, it took 1,000 days to complete this smoke and it’s well worth the wait! This Cigar Aficionado 91-rated smoke was hand-rolled in Nicaragua and starts with fillers from Peru, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua that are secured with a Nicaraguan binder and finished with a handsome Ecuadorian Habano wrapper leaf. Medium to full in body, this smoke offers creamy...