Posted in Cigar Reviews, Other Brands, tagged Di Fazio on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Size: 5″ x 60
Vitola: Robusto
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut
Origin: Honduras
Age: 3 months
The Di Fazio Connecticut is the mild offering from this small boutique outfit from Miami.
This super big ring gauge cigar took a while to light due to it’s girth, but it gave me time to admire the gorgeous Connecticut shade wrapper. A flawless satiny leaf!
Once lit, [...]
Posted in Cigar Reviews, Don Pepin, Limited Editions, Tatuaje, tagged Don Pepin Garcia, Pete Johnson, Tatuaje, Tatuaje Monster Series, Tatuaje The Frank on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Size: 7 5/8″ x 49
Vitola: Double Corona
Wrapper: a frighteningly toothy Connecticut Broadleaf
Origin: Nicaragua
Age: just arose from its coffin
The Frank. You may have heard of it. The Frank (short for Frankenstein’s monster of course) is 1st of a hopefully long line of Monster Series cigars released by Pete Johnson of Tatuaje fame for Halloween. Thirteen evil [...]
Posted in Cigar Reviews, Don Pepin, Limited Editions, Tatuaje, tagged Don Pepin Garcia, Pete Johnson, Tatuaje, Tatuaje Monster Series, The Drac on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Size: 6 3/4” x 52
Vitola: one bloody sharp Torpedo
Wrapper: a spooky Habano Maduro
Origin: Transylvania via Nicaragua
Age: Centuries, but pulled right outta the coffin!
The most sought out cigar for the Halloween season has risen from it’s coffin and come to terrorize the neighborhood! The Drac, the second in the Tatuaje Monster Series, is a dangerous looking [...]
Posted in Cigar Reviews, Don Pepin, Limited Editions, Tatuaje, tagged Boris cigar, Pete Johnson, Tatuaje, Tatuaje Boris, Tatuaje Monster Out of Costume Series, Tatuaje Monster Series on October 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Size: 7” x 49
Vitola: Churchill
Wrapper: Rosado Ecuadorian Sumatra
Origin: Nicaragua
Age: 2 months
This is a pretty popular cigar right now, it’s also pretty hard to find. This is the first of the Monster “Out-of-Costume” Series from marketing mastermind Pete Johnson of Tatuaje cigars (Havana Cellars). The “Out-of-Costume” (OOC) series concept is to take the last year’s Monster [...]
Posted in Cigar Reviews, General Cigar Co., Limited Editions, tagged Cigar Rights of America, CRA, General Cigar Co., Punch on October 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Size: 6” x 52
Vitola: Toro
Wrapper: Nicaraguan
Origin: Honduras
This review is for a special cigar and good cause. Cigar Rights of America is a great organization that helps give voice to the cigar smoker in Washington. One of the ways that the CRA has raised money is through a sampler of cigars donated by the industry’s leaders [...]
Posted in Camacho, Cigar Reviews, Limited Editions, tagged Camacho, Camacho CLE, Christian Eiroa on October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Size: 6″ x 52
Vitola: Perfecto (Diploma shape)
Wrapper: ?? (assuming it’s Corojo)
Origin: Honduras
Age: 1 year
This little puppy, known as Christian’s Blend, is currently unique to the Signature Blends travel bag, which only includes 4 CLEs, is an extremely limited and hard to find cigar. Thanks to Matt for hooking me up on the BOTL forum.
So being [...]
Posted in Cigar Reviews, Habanos, tagged Cohiba, Cohiba Siglo, Cuba, Habanos on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Size: 150 x 20.64 mm (5 3/4″ x 52)
Vitola: Canonazo (Toro)
Wrapper: Havana
Origin: The Land of the Lost
Age: 4 years 2 months
Aaaah, one of my favorite cigars. If only all toro were made this dense and full of flavor! Has 4 years slowed this freight train of flavor down? We shall see!
This came from a box [...]
Posted in Cigar Reviews, Habanos, tagged Habanos, Partagas, Partagas Lusitania on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Size: 194 x 19.45mm (7 5/8″ x 49)
Vitola: Prominentes (Double Corona)
Wrapper: Habana
Origin: Cuba
Age: almost 2 years
A dress box of Partagas Lusitanias magically appeared in my humidor a while back, and I thought it would be a good idea to check on the box to see how these Lusis were aging, as I plan on going [...]
Posted in CAO, Cigar Reviews, Limited Editions, tagged CAO, CAO Escaparate, CAO Escaparate 6 1 5, CAO Escaparate Six One Five on August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Size: 5 1/2 x 44
Vitola: Corona
Wrapper: Criollo-seed Maduro
Origin: Honduras or Nicaragua
Age: Fresh
OK, so this is basically the Criollo with a Maduro wrapper – I think. This is available at one shop, CAO’s “local” shop, Uptown’s Smoke Shop in downtown Nashville. I visited there after my tour of CAO HQs. The shop is beautiful, in fact [...]
Posted in CAO, Cigar Reviews, Limited Editions, tagged CAO, CAO Escaparate, CAO Escaparate MX3, CAO MX2 on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Size: 6 1/4″ x 52
Vitola: Torpedo
Wrapper: Brazilian
Origin: Honduras or Nicaragua
Age: Fresh
The MX3 is one of the more popular of the CAO Escaparate line. The MX2 or Maduro times two is an an extremely popular cigar in it’s own right. But the MX3 features maduro leaf in the filler as well as the wrapper and binder. [...]
