Featured Cigars - March 2017

General Cigar has been delivering high-quality cigars since 1848, including such greats as Bolivar, Cifuentas, Cohiba, Partagas, Punch, and Macanudo, a mild-bodied stogie which is the top-selling cigar brand in the U.S. Perhaps it’s because they live up to their appellation; in Spanish "macanudo" means "best of the best," or "first-rate” and Cigar Aficionado agrees, rating the Macanudo Café Hyde Park with a score of 90. Perhaps it’s because...

If you tell someone that the bat is back, they may make the assumption that another Batman movie may be in the works, but tell that to certain cigar smokers and they will get very excited. Originally released with critical acclaim in the late 2000’s, Murcielago was moved to another factory and almost ceased to exist, but now the bat has been revamped with a new logo and blend. This Dominican handmade was actually reversed engineered by Perez...

Released in 2015, the La Perla Habana 1515 was created to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the founding of Havana, Cuba. Carefully handcrafted by AJ Fernandez in Nicaragua, this Cuban-esque stogie starts with a hearty and rich blend of Cuban-seed long-fillers from Esteli, Condega, and Jalapa, Nicaragua, which is secured by a Sumatra Ecuador binder and a handsome Habano Ecuador wrapper, and finished with a cedar sleeve with “500 Años” (meaning...

Sporting a beautifully made triple cap, the mild-bodied Fonseca Arana is a looker. No surprise—it’s blended by cigar legend Manuel Quesada, the man behind the 93-rated Casa Magna. For the Arana, he uses a toothy, chestnut brown Habano wrapper. Under the toothy Habano wrapper, Arana uses a ’98 Criollo leaf binder of wrapper quality—so it’s like having two wrappers on the cigar! The blend consists of Cuban-seed Dominican long-fillers, also aged...

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. The Sam Leccia Luchador El Gringo in your shipment is the anticipated follow-up to the Luchador line with a heavier focus on Nicaraguan tobaccos. This Nicaraguan handmade sure is a heavy hitter. The Luchador (meaning ‘wrestler’ in Spanish) starts with...

The AVO Syncro Nicaragua Fogata is the follow-up project to the highly rated AVO Syncro Nicaragua which was the first AVO release to feature Nicaraguan leaf, with the Fogata having more. “Fogata, meaning Bonfire or Campfire in Spanish, was a great inspiration for this new cigar; it is one of my favorite settings to share unforgettable and intimate moments with my closest of friends,” said Avo Uvezian. “With Syncro Nicaragua Fogata, we went off...

Founded by Robert Caldwell in 2014, the Caldwell Cigar Company came bursting onto the boutique cigar scene with four cigars that premiered at the IPCPR in July 2015. When starting the company, Robert decided that he was going to do things his way and began scouring the world for the best tobacco leaves which he would test over and over again until getting the exact flavors he was looking for — before testing it again. He is so committed to...

Throughout the cigar world, blends to commemorate certain people, anniversaries, legacies, and even legends can be somewhat common. Some can be hit or miss but the A. Flores Gran Reserva Corojo is most certainly a hit. First released at the IPCPR in 2013, this handmade from Pinar del Rio cigars in the Dominican Republic was created to honor master cigar blender Abe Flores, considered by many to be one of the best and brightest cigar blenders...

The Armada is pure mastery, and the most limited in the Man O’ War line with only 10,000 cigars rolled each year. This cigar may have a hefty price tag but let us assure you that it is worth every penny. A personal blend by AJ Fernandez, this Cuban-esque stogie consists of a bevy of rare Nicaraguan long fillers and binder, and is topped with an oily, dark, toothy, and luscious Ecuador-Sumatra wrapper leaf, all aged and fermented to perfection...