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’s Anniversary Cigar
In 1965 the National Cigar Company (now Nat Cicco?) launched its “rejects” brand – low cost, low priced every day cigars. Zander-Greg purchased Nat Cicco in 2007 and has commemorated the Nat Cicco beginning by launching the Anniversario 1965 Liga No. 4, a premium cigar for smokers looking for full bodied strength. Zander-Greg gave me an Anniversario toro, 6 ¼ X 52, to review. The toro...
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...
New Addition to Arandoza’s Battle of the Bands
Arandoza Cigars is a family owned company that apparently started early 2011, launching its first line of cigars called Blue Label in 2012, with light blue bands. This cigar was reviewed by my compatriot in October 2012 and he gave it a 3.5 out of 5. At the 2013 IPCPR, Arandoza announced the “rebirth” of the medium bodied Blue Label line with a deeper, bolder blue in the cigar bands. This...
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...
