Featured Cigars - Sept 2016

Today the La Palina brand is known for their high quality, exceedingly flavorful, and well-made cigars. The Red Label toro you have in your shipment today is all of that and more and received a well-deserved 92-rating from Cigar Aficionado. Carefully handmade at the PDR factory in the Dominican Republic, this stogie starts with a long-filler blend from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, followed by an Ecuadoran binder, and finished with a...

You might not be able to say it three times fast, but the name Kaizad Hansotia has rapidly swept through the cigar industry. Known as the master blender behind the Gurkha brand, he's admired for his mastery of fine tobacco blending and creativity in developing attractive packaging for his cigars. Released under Gurkha’s East Indian Trading Company’s line, the Gurkha Hudson Bay Churchill is handcrafted at one of Nicaragua’s top factories. This...

Founded in 1844 by Herman Upmann, a German banker, the brand was originally rolled in Cuba and then distributed by Mr. Upmann to his best customers as a promotion. Later, it became one of the most popular Cuban brands smoked in the world. The cigar you have in your shipment today is the third installment of the Media Noche series by H. Upmann and it’s a real slam-dunk. This hand-crafted beauty starts with a dark, oily, and toothy Pennsylvania...

The third installment to Ramón Bueso’s already incredible and highly rated lineup is the one cigar that he has always wanted to make and we couldn’t be happier that he did. Not only is each leaf aged, flawless, and handpicked, each cigar was carefully crafted by hand. Starting from the inside out, first we have an incredible wide range selection of long filler leaves that include 2008 Nicaragua Esteli, 2010 Honduras La Entrada, 2008 Honduras...

Being well-versed in the old world cigar traditions, Felix Mesa draws from three ancestral generations of tobacco cultivation in Cuba’s famed central region. Now hailing from Nicaragua where it is handmade at Mesa’s own factory, the El Galan Campechano begins with a beautiful Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper which enrobes a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan short-filler remains from Mesa’s highly-rated blends. With excellent construction and...