A Quality Gordo Maduro From Erez
Erez Cigars targets their products at the premium segment of the cigar market and uses the internet as its primary sales channel. Their cigars are all hand rolled and sent from the factory direct to the smoker. I met Yaniv Erez at the 2013 IPCPR where he was promoting his brand of Dominican cigars. Yaniv states that the Reyes Family, with over 150 years in the tobacco business, grows the leaf...
Best in Jamaica – Blue Mountain
One of the most sought after products from Jamaica is its Blue Mountain Coffee, world famous for its mild flavor and lack of bitterness. Besides making coffee, these beans are also used as the flavor base for Tia Maria coffee liquor. It is logical then that a Jamaican business man, Marvin Wright, uses the well-known Blue Mountain moniker for his cigars although the sticks are made in Esteli,...
Pride of Jamaica – House of Barrington
We receive hundreds of cigars a year to review. Today’s selection comes from the manufacturer, who we met at last summers industry trade show. An unassuming man with a passion for his country and cigar making. As a small boy in Jamaica, young Barrington Adams found authentic gold doubloons on his parents’ property, an exciting occurrence, foreshadowing what was to come. These...
A Cigar For John Wayne!
John Wayne (born Marion Morrison) was “only” 6 feet 4 inches tall but his swagger and voice made him appear bigger than that in the 140+ pictures that he starred in. John was chain smoker of cigarettes but were he to select a cigar today that fits his persona, I would bet on the Troncoso by La Cosecha Cigars. This cigar is a “branch”, not just a stick, made to be a 6 ½ X 70 box...
An Extra From Azan
Roberto Pelayo Duran has a long career in the cigar industry, partly in production and partly with the distribution organization of Cubatabaco, the Cuban state tobacco company. This distribution organization, Habanos S.A. formed in 1994, controls the promotion, distribution, and export of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide for Cubatabaco. In 2000, Altadis purchased a 50%...
Azan Delivers Value in Short Campana
Roberto Pelayo Duran has enjoyed a long career in the cigar industry, partly in production and partly with the distribution organization of Cubatabaco, the Cuban state tobacco company. This distribution organization, Habanos S.A. formed in 1994, controls the promotion, distribution, and export of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide for Cubatabaco. In 2000, the French/Spanish...
