Featured Cigars - June 2015

Amati may be known for some of the best stringed instruments out there but now they will soon be known for some of the best everyday, anytime, anywhere, not to mention delicious smokes that are on market. The Amati Torpedo starts with mélange of Dominican long-fillers and binder, and is secured with an extremely handsome Connecticut wrapper. Mild enough for beginners but still complex enough for the veteran smoker this mild smoke will deliver...

Rocky Patel has the Midas touch – any blend he releases is as good as gold. Over the years, his blends have tended toward the fuller-bodied and highly complex, but his Connecticut line was produced as an intentional counterpoint, providing an easy going, milder blend. A handcrafted cigar of Honduran tobaccos hand rolled in Danli, Honduras, it boasts long leaf fillers ensconced beneath a Connecticut-shade wrapper, delivering a consistent...

A small-batch production and released at the IPCPR (International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers) in 2012, the Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet Seleccion is a collaboration between Abe Flores and the Rodriguez brothers – the men at the helm of Pinar del Rio cigars. This Dominican puro is brimming with long-fillers of Dominican Vuelta Abajo tobaccos, a Dominican binder, and wrapped up in a Dominican Habano wrapper that features plenty of sheen and...

We love the whole line of Man O’ War cigars but this is one for the books! This luscious smoke is nearly exclusively for you, our members, with it only distributed to a very, very small handful of retail stores, other than that, its just you! The Man O' War Dark Aged Maduro is carefully blended by hand at AJ’s very own Tabacalera Fernandez in Esteli using a rich blend of Nicaraguan Esteli and Ometepe, Honduran Jamastran, and Pennsylvania...

Nub’s Double Maduro marks the second installment in a series of limited edition releases from Studio Tobac, which is one of the many side projects that Oliva Cigars has. The Nub cigar is considered to be one of the most innovative cigar concepts with its line of short, corpulent, and well-filled cigars. Knowing that the sweet spot in a typical cigar is about a third of the way through, the Oliva team was determined to capture the sweet spot...