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Doble Corona
| Country: Hondura | Ring Gauge: 55 | ||
| Filler: Nicaragua | Length: 7" | ||
| Binder: Dominican | Size: Doble Corona | ||
| Wrapper: Nicaragua | Price: $14.95 |
Made By: Toraño
DUNHILL ESTUPENDO (1985)
This cigar offers up dry peppermint flavors on the wrapper, with a perfect construction and draw. It has notes of nutmeg and peanuts on the palate.
THE 25 BEST CIGARS OF 2010
After a year of puffing on some 700 new cigars from all around the world, the smoke has finally settled in the Cigar Aficionado offices and we have our Top 25 cigars of the year. They will be unveiled this week exclusively on CigarAficionado.com
THE 25 BEST CIGARS OF 2010
We began with a list of our top-scoring cigars culled from blind tastings conducted in the magazine and in Cigar Insider. We started the contest with 60 smokes that had scored at least 90 points in one of our taste tests.
DAVIDOFF CHÂTEAU LAFITE ROTHSCHILD (1989)
What a treat! This small cigar has a compact but smooth draw with hints of chestnuts and cinnamon on the palate, and then a core of earthy, wood chip flavors. It was impossible to put down.
La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Chisel
Litto Gomez is a creative cigarmaker, and perhaps his greatest innovation is coming up with the Chisel shape in 2003. The flattened figurado has a head that looks like a handtool or the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument. Its latest incarnation—fall of 2010—is our No. 10 cigar of 2010, the La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Chisel.
E.P. Carrillo Elencos Edición Limitada 2010
Ernesto Perez-Carrillo has been making cigars for a long time. He learned his craft from his father, working in Little Havana at their tiny factory called El Credito Cigars, the birthplace of the non-Cuban La Gloria Cubana. That smoke became one of the first true hits of the cigar boom, and grew into something far larger.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
GURKHA WARLORD Doble Corona
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
THE EDGE SUMATRA Toro
THE EDGE SUMATRA
Toro
Source: Cigar Aficionado
Rocky Patel has become a star in the cigar business thanks to his never-ending drive to meet cigar smokers and his creation of bold, fair-priced blends. His biggest hit has been The Edge, which began as an unadorned chest of 100 cigars packed without bands. The package did, however, have a label that warned of the strength of the cigars inside. The Edge begat several other versions from Patel, and the latest (released this past fall) is The Edge Sumatra Toro. The 6-inch x 52-ring smoke is strong and spicy, with wood and ground pepper notes. It’s powered by Nicaraguan filler and an Ecuadoran Sumatra wrapper, and made under contract for Patel at the El Paraiso factory owned by the Plasencia family. At just over $5, it’s a true bargain.
| Country: Honduras | Ring Gauge: 52 | ||
| Filler: Nicaragua | Length: 6" | ||
| Binder: Honduras | Size: Corona Gorda | ||
| Wrapper: Ecuador | Price: $5.25 |
Distributed By: Rocky Patel Premium Cigars Inc.
Made By: El Paraiso
NAPLES BAY TOBACCO BLEND Torped
NAPLES BAY TOBACCO BLEND
Torpedo
The cigar that was given to me is entitled the Pla and it shares the namesake of the stores proprietor and legend Osvaldo Pla. As the story goes it is a blend designed by Pla himself and then produced by the Emilio Sanchez “PATICO”, ex A. Fuente supervisor for over two decade. The Pla’s exterior is a smooth Connecticut-Habano hybrid wrapper grown in the ever popular Connecticut growing fields of . Both the binder and filler are comprised of Dominican tobaccos, and fill out the cigar nicely without any noticeable soft spots.
Flavor: The Pla Blend smokes like a Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real to me in the fact of its simplicity of flavor. It starts off with a little hint of bitterness and then builds into a strong leather tone for the rest of the smoke. It is pleasant and creamy from start to finish, but rarely deviates from the leather notes.
Draw: The draw was solid and allowed for some slight resistance in the inhalation. I cut my cap minimally and was able to achieve an excellent draw, which goes to show the fine construction of this cigar.
Construction: As mentioned above the cigar has a smooth texture too it, and has a solid construction value, in that it does not have any soft spots.
Burn: The Pla Blend burns smoothly throughout, and I was pleased to not have to touch it up at all. Even with the wrapper issue, I was able to let it naturally burn through the unraveled parts without correcting the burn path, which was nice. The ash was tight striated grey ash and would remain firmly on the end of the cigar until one was ready to doff it off into the ashtray.
Final Verdict: This cigar is only available at the Naples Bay Tobacco store. The Pla blend is a fine consistent cigar that reflects the Naples Bay Tobacco name well. While the price point for the torpedo is around $7 and probably a bit steep for the average consumer, it does serve as a fine example of a premium smoke. If you are looking for a complex cigar this would probably not be the stick for you, but if you are looking for a creamy mellow luxurious smoke, then the Pla Blend is a fine cigar to enjoy on a lazy summer afternoon
| Country: Dominican Republic | Ring Gauge: 52 | ||
| Filler: Dom. Rep. | Length: 6 1/2" | ||
| Binder: Dom. Rep. | Size: Torpedo | ||
| Wrapper: Ecuador | Price: $7.00 |
Distributed By: Naples Bay Tobacco.
Made By: Emilio Sanchez “PATICO”.
Arturo Fuente Cigars
Marketing Video. Executive Producer Doug Scott, PTG Studios. Editor Chris Bukowski
C.A.O. LX2 Gordo
C.A.O. LX2
Gordo
| Country: Honduras | Ring Gauge: 60 | ||
| Filler: Nicaragua, Dom. Rep. | Length: 6'' | ||
| Binder: Honduras | Size: Corona Gorda | ||
| Wrapper: Nicaragua | Price: $8.75 |
Distributed By: C.A.O. International (Henri Wintermans)
Monday, March 21, 2011
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History Channel Cigar Video
A video that was produced by the History channel provides us with lots of cigar information. Arturo Fuente and the family are part of this video, tips and secrets are shared, and all around informative.
