Current Featured Cigars - May 2025

Starting out as an entertainment lawyer and slowly making the transition into cigar maker, Rocky Patel not only made it through the cigar boom of the 1990s but has settled into being one of the most renowned cigar makers around. The Rocky Patel Vintage 1999 is the third installment of the unparalleled success of the Vintage line, and has racked up ratings of 90+ points. Unlike its counterparts from the same line, the ’99 Vintage isn’t boxed...

Ramon Bueso is a name that you may or may not be familiar with, but that doesn’t mean that you haven’t smoked his wonderfully created cigars. Bueso started in this industry over 40 years ago as a tobacco grower where his family’s land was the first tobacco farm in Honduras. At the ripe age of 15 he became a cigar roller, eventually evolving into factory supervisor at the famous Villazon factory which is the original home base for Honduran...

The Villazon factory in Honduras has been a key piece in the cigar industry for many years where skilled artisans have created blends for Excalibur, Hoyo de Monterrey, and Punch to name just a few. Now called HATSA (Honduran American Tabaco SA), they still make some of the best cigars out there, rooted in deep tradition. The Villazon Maduro is made with this tradition in mind and is packed full with Colombian, Dominican, and Honduran...

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...

Founded by the late Zino Davidoff, Davidoff cigars are the epitome of pleasure and the good life, and if you have ever smoked a cigar by Davidoff you know that all Davidoff cigars maintain well-defined standards of quality and excellence. The tobaccos that are used in the different blends have been cultivated in accordance with the most ancient traditions, in the richest soils and ideal climatic conditions of carefully selected fields. The...

Worldwide, AVO sells over three million cigars annually – a big jump from its first year production of 100,000 cigars back in 1988. The brand was created from the passion for fine tobacco possessed by one Avo Uvezian, the son of a family of musicians from Beirut. Avo moved from Beirut to New York to study piano at Julliard and after opening a restaurant and piano bar in Puerto Rico in the early ‘80s, he discovered his love for cigars. After...

Released in 2019, the Montecristo Espada Estoque is a luxurious, full-bodied cigar that represents the pinnacle of Montecristo’s Nicaraguan craftsmanship. Created in collaboration with the Plasencia family, one of Nicaragua’s most respected tobacco growers and blenders, the Espada Estoque is crafted entirely from vintage Nicaraguan tobaccos. The blend features a rich Habano Jalapa wrapper, wrapped around a core of carefully aged Nicaraguan...

The Valkyrie in your shipment today is truly one of kind. Handmade in Nicaragua, this stellar stick has a Nicaraguan binder and fillers and is finished with a very special Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper leaf known as a “Desflorado”. According to Cigar Aficionado, Desflorado is: Tobacco that has been topped, or removed of its flower, seeds, and sometimes the entire upper portion of a tobacco plant. This causes the tobacco plant to redirect its...

Founded by the late Zino Davidoff, Davidoff cigars are the epitome of pleasure and the good life, and the Zino Platinum Scepter Series is both. Handmade with the utmost care in the Dominican Republic, the Scepter Series is a truly handsome cigar wrapped with a shiny, golden brown Connecticut wrapper from Ecuador. Underneath is a Dominican binder and a delicious blend of long-fillers from Peru and the Dominican Republic that have been...