Acme Route 66 Classic is a Good Everyday Cigar
Acme Cigars traces its roots back to the late 1800’s. Acme was a well-known supermarket chain and also known as the supplier of dubious products to Wile E. Coyote in the old Roadrunner cartoons. Route 66 opened in 1926 and was America’s best known highway until it was removed from the US highway system in 1985. So Acme Route 66 is full of nostalgia – but how is the cigar? The Route 66...
New Hoyo is Horray!
The new Hoyo cigars arrived about 10 days ago. Just as we ere finishing smoking the final 2 cigars in our CigarMadness2016 contest. So it took a few days for the msoke to clear to get to this review. At first I was concerned that after smoking the great cigars in the final rounds of the c0ntest I would be disappointed with whatever came next. Thankfully, that was this gem from General....
Crossfire Cigars’s Library Series (Connecticut) Missed a Dewey Decimal
This is my sixth cigar review of Crossfire’s offerings since 2013. At the 2015 IPCPR Crossfire introduced their Library Series, a new blend aimed at the premium market segment. A “box” of the Library Series cigars comes in the form of a high quality book that opens up to 10 cigars. The title of the book is the name of the cigar series, all authored by Crossfire. Nicely done. Crossfire...
CAO’s Steel Horse – a Biker Theme Cigar For Anyone
CAO is not afraid to experiment. This time the new Steel Horse cigar has a definite biker theme – the cap is perfectly round like the top of a piston; the band has a tire tread running horizontally across and in the center is a bike coming at you. Not finished with the theme yet – the 2 sizes have biker names – Bullneck (6 ½ X 66) and Apehanger (5 ½ X 58). CAO gave me an Apehanger at the...
Padilla’s La Pilar Really Holds Up
Padilla Cigar Company is a long time boutique and premium cigar producer. At the 2015 IPCPR in New Orleans Padilla launched a series called La Pilar (a “column” or “pillar”) No. 4 in 3 sizes. Padilla gave me 5 X 50 robusto to review. The robusto has a filler blend of Dominican and Nicaraguan tobaccos with a Nicaraguan binder, all wrapped by an Ecuadorian Habano Oscuro, although the...
Tarazona’s 305 Is a Little Above Average
Eddie Tarazona has his own boutique cigar business for a quite a while now even though I first came across them at the 2015 IPCPR. Eddie has 3 brands – Classic, 305 and Ecstasy. Tarazona provided me with one of their 305 cigars to review. The 305 robusto was 5 X 50 uses a Costa Rican maduro to wrap around Nicaraguan binder and filler. The 305 was firm enough and had an excellent draw. The smoke...
