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This celebratory smoke was created for Arturo Fuente’s landmark 100th anniversary in 2012, and released the following year. It’s a beautiful cigar, with a slightly reddish hue to the wrapper. Bold from the first puff, it begins with notes of almond, and orange marmalade. The …
Made exclusively for the Cuban market, this box of Diplomáticos Excelencias spent the last five years in a locker in Havana under perfect humidity conditions, and it shows. The burn is dead even with a slow, cool rate of combustion, the draw, luxurious. It’s a creamy smoke, …
Wide and majestic cabinets of 50 cigars are becoming a rare sight in humidors, and that’s unfortunate. There’s a regal air to these boxes, which have a beauty in their plain nature, the cigars unbanded, the boxes devoid of color, the only flair a ribbon around the smokes inside. …
This big cigar comes from an intriguing box of 50: half of the cigars are traditional, box-pressed Hoyo Double Coronas, while the other half are Exclusivos, the same size as the Double Corona but presented in the round, and with a different band. The Exclusivos are flavorful …
El Rey del Mundo is Spanish for “king of the world,” and this cigar brand dates back to the mid 1800s. It once had a vast array of sizes, from the diminutive to the grand, but today it’s been whittled down to a mere two. This Taino, a Churchill, is among the many sizes that are …
One of the most delicious cigars I’ve ever smoked. At 6 1/2 inches by 48 ring, it’s nearly a Churchill, and the largest size in the long gone Don Candido brand. The draw remains flawless and the beautiful brown wrapper is still silky after all these years. It’s a very creamy …
Back in the pre-Castro days of Havana, cigars would often be marked with the designation “maduro.” It’s a practice that fell out of favor after the revolution. This dark, long cigar is a throwback from the early 1950s, and despite its age, it’s vibrant from the first puff, with …
It’s surprising how little this “A”-sized cigar tastes like cedar, seeing how it spent so many years in a cedar box. Instead, this is a nutty, fruity smoke, with light hints of peach tea that transition to more festive, concentrated notes of dried apricot and fig paste. There’s …
Even though this long corona has been sitting in a 50-count cabinet for 24 years, the dark, gleaming wrapper hasn’t lost any of its oils. Each puff delivers dense smoke that’s both sweet and savory with a palate of mocha, caramel and graham cracker atop salty notes of leather, …
This cabinet of 50 pre-Castro cigars has unusual packaging, and the smaller cigars inside come packed in foil. The smokes are dark brown, and roughish in texture, a nod to the sun-grown wrappers with which they are made, and they measure a little more than five inches in length, …
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