Featured Cigars - January 2014

The Clasico line of cigars are handmade in the Dominican Republic and are absolutely delicious. This mild to medium cigar has a top-grade Sumatra Java wrapper, a Connecticut Shade binder, and is packed with a Cuban-seed blend of Nicaraguan and Dominican long-fillers. Once lit, you can expect flavors of cream, toast, and nuts with hints of sweetness and pepper. Mild enough for any time of day, we enjoyed ours with a Czech Pilsner...

Nat Sherman offers enough variety in its impressive roster of blends and sizes to keep one trying new cigars for months on end! Hobart is a part of their “Host” series that has a rustic aroma as well as solid, mild-to-medium strength flavor. It is a super-smooth handmade cigar, rolled with a Connecticut shade wrapper and Dominican and Honduran long leaves as binder and filler. Nat Sherman cigars have a rich history (not to mention their rich flavor)...

The J.C. Newman Cigar Company has been around since 1895, and it was all started by Julius Ceasar Newman rolling his first cigar in his family’s barn in Cleveland, Ohio. Once he discovered his passion for cigars, he moved his family down to Tampa and quickly had a world-class reputation for producing high-quality premium cigars. Even though most of their cigars these days are made in the Dominican Republic, in 2009 the family started working with...

Handmade in Cofradia, Honduras, Hoyo de Monterrey Reposado en Cedros was released in 2010 at the IPCPR (International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association) show. Hoya de Monterrey began in Cuba in 1960, produced by leaf grower and founder José Gener. His family farmed in the Vuelta Abajo valley (famed for its fertility) for many years during the late 1800s, making this one of the most deeply historically-rooted brands on the market...

The award winning show, Sons of Anarchy, now has its own line of cigars thanks to the partnership between Twentieth Century Fox's Consumer Products division and Meier & Dutch cigar distributors. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, it’s about a gun-running close knit motorcycle club operating out of the fictitious town of Charming, California. One of the stars of the show is real-life cigar enthusiast Ron Perlman, who portrays the club's ominous and...