Featured Cigars - Sept 2024

Introduced in 1999 and part of the Drew Estate portfolio, ACID cigars are known for their unique flavors and aromatics. Over the years, Drew Estate has released a wide multitude of unique brands, but perhaps none more intriguing than ACID. These cigars are rolled with tobaccos which have undergone an unusual curing process in a cuarto aromático (aroma room). Each cuarto contains a wide array of different essential oils, herbs, and botanicals...

Here we have yet another Nicaraguan gem by Tabacalera Perdomo. The Perdomo Slow-Aged 826 is a solid cigar chock-full of an extensively aged blend of four different Nicaraguan filler leaves including a choice strain of ligero leaf that amps up the flavor profile. This is then bound with a Nicaraguan long leaf and finished off with a chestnut-brown Connecticut shade leaf that may be darker than you’re used to. This combination will not only...

Someone said, "Arganese is not a household name, probably not even in the Arganese household" and it's apt. But this toothy cigar is so good and sells at such a reasonable price, "Arganese" may just become a well known name in your household. It could also become your go-to everyday stick. The blend is an all-Nicaraguan array of aged Cuban-seed tobaccos secured by a three year old Habano binder from Nicaragua and cloaked in a dark and oily...

Punch is one of the oldest Habano brands, founded in 1840 by Don Manuel Lopez of Juan Valle & Company and intended for the booming British market. The name Punch is drawn from a famous puppet show, "Punch & Judy"; the clown, Mr. Punch, is still seen today on some of their cigar boxes with his sly smile and cigar. This time, Mr. Punch has stepped into the ring ready to rumble. The Knuckle Buster series has become a cult favorite within the Punch...

A Nicaraguan puro, created 10 years after the launch of the landmark Joya de Nicaragua Antaño blend, the new Dark Corojo—an even fuller variety— puts a different spin on the Nicaraguan classic. Note how heavily it sits in the hand. The beautifully constructed Dark Corojo is a brute, jam-packed with big boy tobaccos. The Corojo-seed wrapper is grown in Nicaragua, and has been carefully fermented to achieve its super-dark color and excessively...

Over the last few years, Lost & Found has been gaining in popularity with cigar smokers due to the rare and unique blends that have been released, and the Antique Line is no exception. In fact, Caldwell has described the Antique Line as “the oldest, most special, best-tasting cigars… the caviar of what we do with Lost & Found.” This month it’s our pleasure to bring you one from vintage 2006, of which there are multiple varieties. Handcrafted years...

Some have said the original Man O’ War Virtue should be named the “Peacetime Virtue” since it’s a milder, tamer version of the full-flavored blends in the Man O’ War portfolio. The 10th Anniversary edition you have in your shipment was created to celebrate the 10 years since the original came out and this version keeps the spirit of the original but with more body and flavor. The Virtue was developed by Abdel “AJ” Fernandez, a protégé of Don...

Mark Twain once said, "Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar." Anyone who is acquainted with Twain through his legacy of literature knows he was a man for whom cigars were as important as the written word. He’s also famous for declaring: “If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go!” In the history of cigars, no one has been a bigger fan or a more dedicated...

The Ave Maria brand is known for its elegance in not only its smokes but in the packaging as well. Like the others in the Ave Maria portfolio, the Immaculata features a stunning band and has the quality that people have come to expect from them, although this smoke is mellower than some others from the brand. We believe Ave Maria to be one of the best brands in the business and the Immaculata is further proof of that statement. Blended by the...