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A lighter offering from Matt Booth and Room 101, Miami snow, a long filler cigar that won't break the bank. A delicate Connecticut wrapper envelopes Honduras binders and fillers that contain habano leaves. Toro - 6 x 50 Wrapper - Ecuador Connecticut Binder - Honduras Filler - Honduras Body - Med. Strength - Mild Smoking Time - 1 hr. 40 min.

The second release from Alec & Bradley brings us the Gatekeeper, which won #7 cigar of the year with a 95 rating in 2020. Robusto - 5x50 Wrapper - Ecuador Habano Binder - Nicaragua Filler - Dominican & Nicaragua Body - Med Strength - Mild+ Smoking time - 1+ hr.

Camacho has come out with a new core line cigar and was released on September 7th of this year. As the name suggests, the cigar is composed of broadleaf tobacco. Wrapper - Honduras Broadleaf Binder - Honduras Filler - Honduras, Dominican Republic Body - Med. Strength - Med. Smoking Time - 2 hr.

Johnathan Drew of Drew Estate, James Hetfield (Metallica Co-founder), and Rob Dietrich (Master distiller of BLACKENED American Whiskey) collaborated to bring you the bold to the core cigar: Blackened M81! Released September of 2022, this cigar can still be hard to find, although I picked up my box at an event around June/July of 2023. Robusto - 5 x 50 Wrapper - Mexican San Andres Maduro Binder - Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf Maduro Filler - Nicaraguan and Pennsylvania Broadleaf Maduro Smoking Time - 1.5 hr Body - Full Strength - Med+

Jas Sum Kral (JSK) has created a "Munchies" line of cigars which offers the cigar smoker a flavored option, but without that chemical taste. This time we will try the Rocky Road cigar. 5 x 50 Wrapper - Mexican San Andrés Binder & Filler - undisclosed Body - Medium Strength - Mild+ Smoking Time - 1.5 hrs.

Announced this last May, Drew Estate has created a new vitola to add to their popular H99 Privada Line, the Super Ancho. Super Ancho translates to super wide, and they weren't kidding. A 6 x 60 cigar is not for the faint of heart. Through this month, the Super Ancho will only be available to Drew Estate Diplomat retailers as event only cigars. After this month, the cigar will be a part of their full-time line up. Wrapper - hybrid stalk-cut/cured H99 Connecticut Corojo from Connecticut River Valley Binder - Mexican San Andrés Otapan Negro Último Corte Filler - Honduran, Nicaraguan, and Pennsylvania Green River One Sucker Body - Full Strength - Medium Smoking time - 2.5 hrs.

Ezra Zion offers a unique cigar of the month club, by combining it with coffee. You will receive 5 total cigars: 2 core line cigars, 1 unique member only cigar, and 2 general but limited-edition release cigars (as all their stuff is). The last 2 cigars may or may not be the same as what you receive. The August 2023 cigar of the month brings us members only cigar, the Cereal Killer (5.75 x 46). The coffee of the month is Eleven Year Anniversary Roast. Each monthly bag of coffee is 12 oz. Pros: Fast shipping, good variety, fresh coffee, biodegradable bits, aged core line cigars Cons: Email only for all forms of communication, unique monthly cigar tends to be the exact same as the previous year's month

Jas Sum Kral decided to get into the infused/flavored cigar game and they pushed the envelope, intentionally, with the packaging. Love or hate their game, let's review this cigar. JSK's proprietary infusion process offers a one-of-a-kind enhancement to their lineup of premium “Munchies” cigars coming in one vitola, 5×50. Their promise is "to deliver a cigar that is never overpowering, never overbearing, and certainly never with the chemical taste other brands are known to have." Vitola - 5 x 50 Wrapper - Habano Binder - ? Filler - ? Smoking time - 1+ hr. Body - Medium Strength - Mild

Not all boxes are made equal! Let's get into the details of this Room 101 cigar. After Breakfast in Portugal, Miami Snow is the second of three limited edition blends created by Matt Booth and crafted at AJ Fernandez's factory in Nicaragua. Available in only a single vitola, 6.0"x50 Toro, this blend is the most mellow of the three. It has a golden Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over Habano-seed long-filler grown in Honduras.

Murcielago de Oro is a newer release cigar for 2023 and happens to be a TAA store exclusive with production limited to 1,500 boxes of 20 cigars, a run of 30,000 cigars. The original Murcielago (by Espinosa) utilized a Mexican San Andres Maduro wrapper, however the Oro uses a Mexican San Andres Claro wrapper! Espinosa claims the Oro is less sweet than the original release Murcielago, let's see if they are right. Box Pressed Toro - 6 x 54 Wrapper - Mexican San Andres Claro Binder - Nicaragua’s Jalapa region Filler - Nicaragua Body - Med+ Strength - Mild+ Smoking Time - 2 hr.

A new cigar company, Sagrado, has recently hit the United States market and will soon be branching out into other countries. Today I will try the Magnifico, but no information is provided about the wrapper, binder or filler! Edited - 8/5/23 - I just found out that the Magnifico is no longer in production. Sagrado has changed rolling/blending factories and will no longer produce this cigar. "Sagrado Cigars, a premium Dominican hand-rolled cigar brand, is crafted with quality, precision, and cultivated from the finest tobacco plants. Sagrado signifies "sacred" in Spanish and our unique blends are designed with this in mind. Our flavors evoke emotions, creating an experience whether you are a cigar aficionado or indulging in one for the first time. Sagrado embodies the idea that sacred moments like these should be shared and celebrated between friends, family and loved ones. Our passion shines through the product we produce. All cigars are crafted in the Dominican Republic, under master cigar roller supervision, and aged for a minimum of 90 days to ensure superior quality and exquisite flavors. Robusto - 5x50 Wrapper, binder, filler - ? Body - Med + Strength - Mild +/Med Smoking time - 1 hr.

Ezra Zion has created a new blend they are adding to their core line of cigars. That's right, this will be one more cigar you can actually find and get on the regular. Inspired by smoking other boutique company cigars, such as Tatuaje, Viaje and Illusione, Ezra Zion put out their own blend to pay homage to those expiriences. Unlike other releases, we actually know the make-up of the binder and filler tobaccos! 600 total cigars were released last week, which is actually more than most of the releases I've seen from EZ. Vitola - 5 x 50 (only one size to date) Wrapper - '99 Corojo Binder & Filler - Nicaragua Body - Medium+ Strength - Mild + Smoking time - 1.5 hr.

Each subscription that is sent out is unique, meaning not every person will receive the same cigars. You will receive 2 core line cigars, 1 monthly member only cigar, and 2 cigars of limited releases (these will vary from person to person). You will also receive a bag of coffee with your subscription, and that roast blend differs from month to month, which may or may not match your monthly cigar.

Ezra Zion cigar and coffee of the month has arrived. As always you receive 2 core line cigars, 1 member only unique cigar, and 2 other various cigars which may or may not be the same as everyone else in the monthly club.

The popular actor who is known to smoke cigars nearly daily, collaborates with Illusione to create the PIV Robusto. Released in November of 2021, PIV Robusto is a Nicaraguan Puro that is known for it's spiciness, probably as a result from the double binder consisting of Corojo 2012 leaf. Vitola - 5x52 Wrapper, Binder, Filler - Nicaraguan Smoking time - 1.5 hrs. Body - Med + (but varied from startup) Strength - Med/Med +

Each Month, Ezra Zion will ship 5 cigars and a 12 oz. bag of coffee to its members. 2 cigars will be from their core line, 1 cigar will be unique to members only, and the remaining 2 cigars will be random fill from previous releases (which may or may not match someone else's order). The coffee comes as whole bean in a vacuumed sealed bag, and each month will have a different blend. Ezra states they use 1/10th of 1% in quality, of rare beans found around the world.

Steve Saka and his crew at Dunbarton decided to give pipe tobacco a try, blending both pipe and cigar tobacco leaves together into one unique cigar. The resulting effort led to now five unique cigar blends, each using a different pipe tobacco. All the StillWell Star cigars come in one vitola, 6 x 52. Additionally, all have an Ecuadorian habano wrapper and a Mexican San Andrés cultivo tronto negro binder. The Bayou No. 32 uses Red Virginia and St. James Parish Perique pipe tobacco along with Nicaraguan cigar tobacco in the filler portion of the cigar. Smoke time - 1 hr. 45 min. Body - Full Strength - Medium

Let's try this dark wrapper cigar on this very cold spring day! The Espinosa Especial was released in 2015; I am trying it for the very first time. No. 4 - 5x52 Wrapper - Mexican Capa Negra Binder & Filler - From the 4 main growing regions of Nicaragua (Esteli, Jalapa, Condega, Ometeppe) Body - Full Strength - Medium Smoking Time - 1 hr.

Camacho's candela was actually phased out for awhile until new FDAS laws went into effect making it harder for new blends to be released to the American market. Camacho then re-released this candela near St. Patrick's Day of 2018. The cigar is built on the brand’s original Corojo blend (90 rated), instead uses a candela leaf that was flash-cured over a charcoal fire and then placed over a Honduran corojo binder and filler. The cigar used for this review was aged at least 1 year in my humidor. Comparisions are made (in the video) to the other candela which I smoked right away. Robusto - 5x50 Wrapper - Honduras candela Binder & Filler - Honduras corojo Body - Med+ Strength - Mild+ Smoking time - 1 hr.

Gurkha originally produced this cigar 15 years ago as a limited edition. Once again, this cigar has been released but this time will be available as part of their core line. This particular cigar is part of their late August 2022 soft release. Robusto - 5x52 Wrapper - Habano Binder & Filler - Nicaraguan Body - Med.+ Strength - Mild+ Smoking time - Approx. 50 mins.

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Let's try the new Oct. 2022 released cigar, Allegiance, and see if it compares to the Pledge (which made cigar of the year). Allegiance is the first cigar EP Carrillo has made which was not made exclusively in their factory. This was a collaboration between Oliva and Carrillo and made in Nicaragua's Oliva factory. Side Kick - 5x50 Wrapper - Ecuadorian Sumatra Binder & Filler - Nicaraguan Body - Med. Strength - Mild Smoking time - approx. 1 hr.

Foundation released the cigar in August of 2022 and has been smoked, and enjoyed, by many! The Olmec was produced by AJ Fernandez Factory. Robusto - 5 x 50 Wrapper - Mexican San Andres Binder & Filler - Nicaragua Body - Medium Strength - Medium Smoking Time - 45 mins (Filmed Oct '22)

Part of their core line, The Black II was designed to give a traditional and aged maduro expierence. You can find this cigar in many vitolas (sizes). Robusto - 5 x 50 Wrapper - San Andres Binder & Filler - Habano Body - Full Strength - Medium

Liga Privada Unico Serie limited release line of cigars was created because the blends were so delicious, and Drew Estate wanted to share, but the tobaccos were not plentiful enough for a regular production release. UF - 13 Dark comes in one size only, 5.5 x 52 with a fan tail cap and a dark oily wrapper. Not much information is provided by Drew Estate for this cigar, but it's believed to be a Nicaraguan Puro.