Featured Cigars - August 2016

AJ Fernandez has done it again. This time with a deliciously dark, incredibly powerful, and intriguingly mysterious stogie that is aptly named Fallen Angel. Rolled with care at AJ Fernandez’s legendary Tabacalera Fernandez factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, this one of a kind stogie starts with a wrapper which is a super dark and oily Sumatra Ecuadorian Oscuro leaf. This leaf is not only rare, it’s cut at the best and most flavorful priming known...

With a name like John Bull and a bulldog’s face on the label you may be thinking this cigar was meant for Murl. Trust us, he’s as particular as any club member and while not a regular panelist, he does chip in his two cents on many occasions. Murl thinks the John Bull is a great value—a good quality, mild handmade at a great price, an ideal everyday stogie option for “man and cigar-chomping dogs alike.” Out of the gates, John Bull has already...

The J.C. Newman Cigar Company has been around since 1895, and it was all started by Julius Caesar 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 earned 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...

The Macanudo Cru Royale is not your typical Macanudo. Released in 2010 at the IPCPR (International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association), this cigar was masterfully blended under the watchful eye of the one and only Benji Menendez from General Cigar in the Dominican Republic. His team included some of the best cigar masters in the world including the general manager of General Cigar, Francisco Rodriguez. This team...

La Perla Habana is one of the most coveted labels in cigar history. Two of the industry's most respected entrepreneurs, Sergio Cuevas and Doug Wood, took it upon themselves to recreate La Perla Habana, a well-known Cuban brand, in the Dominican Republic. They’ve created a cigar in which commitment, quality, and flavor are paramount: a cigar worthy of its name, “Pearl of Habana.” We think they've done an exceptional job with this highly rated...