Kuuts Fires Up the Zapata
Kuuts has their cigar factory in the Danli region of the Honduras where they make their Kuuts Nicaraguan, Placeres, Miro and Zapata Cigars. Although Kuuts has been selling in Europe for a long time, they entered the US market in 2013. I previously reviewed the Miro (not my favorite) and the Placeres Reserva (a good cigar at a good price). At the 2014 IPCPR Kuuts also gave me a Tabacalera Zapata...
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...
Cuban Stock Has a New Chubby VP
Cuban Stock Cigar Company launched an addition to its Chubby line of large ring gauge cigars at the 2014 IPCPR in Las Vegas. The new line is called “Boss” and comes in 3 lofty title sizes – the Chairman (7 X 60), the CEO (6 X 56) and the VP (5.5 X 56). Yanev Levy, the founder of Cuban Stock Cigar Company and probably both its Chairman and CEO, gave me a VP to test. The Boss series uses a...
SWAG Black Lavishes Big Flavor on a Robusto
Boutique Blends has 3 well-known brands – Aging Room, SWAG and Oliveros. I have enjoyed a number of Aging Room offerings and, at the 2014 IPCPR, Boutique Blends president Rafael Nodal provided me with one of their new creations, a SWAG Black. The Black comes in 4 sizes and the 5 X 54 robusto is called “Lavish”. The Lavish is promoted as a full bodied Dominican puro using tobacco aged for 8...
Double Nickel Cigar by Rodriguez
Lou Rodriguez Cigars sells exclusively through “brick and mortar” stores and targets the mature smoker looking for limited production cigars. At the 2014 IPCPR Rodriguez introduced its new cigar called the “double nickel”. The band is orange and black with a large “55” on it. In keeping with the name, the cigar is 5.5 X 55 – two double nickels. Old smokers like me remember the...
Curivari’s Seleccion Privada
Curivari began in Europe in 2003 and expanded into the USA in 2010, just in time to join our “still ongoing” recovery from the Great Recession. While the company maintains a low profile in the US, I found their cigars on the websites of most major internet sellers. Every year Curivari launches a new cigar and at the 2014 show they provided me with their Seleccion Privada Maduro, a Nicaraguan...
