Put a Torano Brick into Your Humidor!
Torano Family Cigars has their Brick cigar as a value offering. In 2014 Torano made a few minor changes and markets the Brick in 2 sizes, a 6 X 60 Robusto and a 7 X 56 Churchill. The Brick has a filler blend from Nicaragua and Honduras with a Honduran binder and Ecuadorian Sumatra seed wrapper. The 2014 Brick version is a remake of an older Torano standby stick. I was given a 6 X 60 Brick at the...
Nat Cicco has a Cuban Sandwich Legend!
Outside the cigar industry Cuban sandwiches have ham, pork, cheese and other ingredients for a tasty lunch. But Cuban sandwich cigars refer to the use long and short fillers together, sometimes with the long filler “sandwiching” the short filler in between. Nat Cicco’s Cuban Legend cigars use this construction approach for their Habano special edition Cuban Legend which contains Nicaraguan...
New Roberto Duran Premium Offering – Cacique Guama
I have smoked and enjoyed the complete Azan line from Roberto Duran Cigars and at the 2014 IPCPR, Duran launched a premium line in 4 sizes, each with a unique name. I was given the new Cacique Guama to review, a 6 X 60 cigar with Nicaraguan and a proprietary tobacco filler, Nicaraguan binder and wrapped by an Ecuadorian Habano Criollo. The Guama was average in appearance with a moderately firm...
JC Newman’s Pearl of the Sea
Aside from a pretty woman’s neck, the best place to find pearls of the sea is in a bed of oysters. In 2012 JC Newman introduced their Perla del Mar and had them available for the 2013 IPCPR where they gave me one to sample and review. I recently inspected the bottom of my humidor and found the JC Neman Perla biding its time until I selected it. The Perla I had was the “G” , a 6 ¼ X 54...
1875 Romeo Y Julieta – Good, But With a Complicated Pedigree
Romeo and Juliet – would be lovers kept apart by differences between their families. The Romeo Y Julieta brand name/global market is no different. The non-US version is Cuban produced and sold outside the US by Habanos SA. Altadis produces the US version in the Honduras. Another complication is that Altadis also sells different Romeo Y Julieta cigars where the 1875 is after the name of...
Kuuts Has a Winner With the Placeres Reserva
Kuuts has their cigar factory in the Danli region of the Honduras where they make their Kuuts Nicaraguan, Placeres, Miro and Zapata brands. Although Kuuts has been selling in Europe for a long time, they entered the US market in 2013. At the 2014 IPCPR Kuuts gave me a Placeres Reserva 6 X 54 Colosos to review. The Placeres brand comes in 5 sizes and has a Habano Jalapa wrapper around a Costa...
