Featured Cigars - June 2025

Unlike Discovery’s extremely popular documentary-filled Shark Week, the Dark Shark Churchill will be a new permanent fixture in your humidor. This handmade starts with a solid Brazilian midnight-black Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper, below which we have a Nicaraguan binder and a feisty blend of Cuban-seed Nicaraguan long-fillers. This combination leads to bold and smooth flavors of coffee beans, earth, and sweetness, very much as...

La Perla Habana is one of the most coveted brands produced today. Two of the industry's most respected entrepreneurs took it upon themselves to recreate this well-known Cuban brand in the Dominican Republic. Sergio Cuevas and Doug Wood have created a cigar in which commitment, quality, and flavor are the sole concerns. Using closely guarded techniques to age and blend the tobaccos, these men have produced a cigar that is worthy of the name, the...

Astral is a highly recognized and praised brand. The Talanga Valley Selection is handmade in, where else… Honduras' beautiful Talanga Valley. This smoke is the newest addition to the Astral line and is still made in very small quantities. Starting from the inside out, there is a multi-country blend of Nicaraguan, Brazilian, and Dominican long-fillers encased with a Mexican binder and finished with a Honduran wrapper. We found the draw good...

Bruised but not broken, Nestor rebuilt his business once more, this time based in Honduras. Now after many decades of toil and takeover, Plasencia owns cigar operations that span two countries, with more than 4,500 employees producing 33 million premium hand-rolled cigars per year, all rolled from Cuban-seed tobacco. His Nestor Reserve line offers a rich and robust taste with a wonderful aroma and exquisite construction. Note the beautifully...

The man behind the highly rated 601 brand, Erik Espinosa, is well known in the industry for doing whatever he wants while going above and beyond to make sure the quality of his cigars are second to none. To say he knows cigars is an understatement – to say the least – as he’s worked with Alec Bradley, Gurkha, Rocky Patel, and Drew Estate, just to name a few. Born in Cuba, Erik is one of the best in the business and has just about mastered...

Named after Shakespeare’s literary masterpiece, Romeo y Julieta has been around since its start in Cuba way back in 1875. After becoming incredibly popular during the 20th century, they moved to the Dominican Republic due to the Cuban Embargo. Remaining one of the most popular brands in the world, Romeo y Julieta offers a number of lines, including this month’s Reserva Real, which is a little more hearty than others in their famous 1875...

The CAO Black in your shipment today is one of CAO’s finest creations and can only be found at a handful of selected retailers. Handmade in Honduras, each stogie is individually wrapped. The cigar starts with a stunning dark brown Connecticut-seed wrapper grown in Ecuador, is bound with a zesty Nicaraguan Habano leaf, and is finished with a well-aged three country blend from Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Take off the cedar wrap and use...

Something wicked this way comes… The Diesel Wicked is back. Having one of the best reputations in the business, Diesel cigars continue to impress. The Diesel Wicked is hand rolled in Nicaragua and is produced in extremely limited quantities due to the rare tobaccos that are used, including the jaw-dropping, dark, thick, oily, and dazzling broadleaf maduro ligero wrappers from Pennsylvania. Underneath is a hand selected top-priming Habano...

For cigar aficionados, the Camacho brand is synonymous with “full”—as in full-bodied, full-flavored, and full of character. Their blends usually promise a powerful well-balanced smoke brimming with aromatic flavor. This is precisely why Camacho makers Christian and Julio Eiroa have developed such a loyal cult-like following. 1962 was the year that Julio Eiroa, exiled to Honduras by Castro, began yet another life of cigar making in a different...