Featured Cigars - November 2014

General Cigar has been delivering high-quality cigars since 1848, including such greats as Bolivar, Cifuentes, Cohiba, Partagas, Punch, and Macanudo, which is what you have received today. Macanudo is one of the top selling cigars in the world due to their consistently mild and pleasant character and exceptional construction. Cigar Aficionado agrees, rating the Macanudo Maduro Hyde Park with a score of 90. These hand-rolled sticks are a blend...

Sam Leccia is the mastermind behind Leccia Tobacco. You may not have heard of him, but he spent a number of years working for the Oliva cigar family, so you probably have had some of his cigars. Sam believes that every cigar has a sweet spot where, at some point during the smoke, it achieves the pinnacle of its flavors. He was driven to see if he could create a cigar that would capture this sweet spot from the very first puff and hold it to...

Meticulously rolled in Nicaragua, the Limited Reserve line is individually wrapped with cedar and tipped with a gold foot, indicative of the intricate pleasures within. Underneath the cedar wrapper, the gorgeous Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper holds a Honduran binder and long-leafs. We found the Churchill featured this month on the mild to medium tasting end of the spectrum, leaning towards mild with notes of white pepper, tobacco, cedar...

The blend is an all-Nicaraguan blend of aged Cuban-seed tobaccos secured by a three year old Habano binder from Nicaragua and cloaked in a dark and oily Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper. The Arganese Maduro offers a classic maduro flavor profile: an array of coffee and dark chocolate flavors complemented by a naturally sweet maduro finish. Look for this medium-bodied stick to dish out a dense, rich tobacco core defined by ample notes of...

The CAO Extreme is not messing around. At first glance you’ll notice the oversized band and upon further inspection it will tell you everything you need to know about this one-of-a-kind powerhouse. It starts with a hearty blend of long-leaf ligeros from Honduras and Nicaragua with a dash of La Entradas long-fillers that is secured by a spicy Nicaraguan binder. This monster is finished off with a rich, dark, and oily Ecuadorian Habano ligero...