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....
Dunhill’s 80th Anniversary Cigar
80 years covers a lot of history – from the end of the Great Depression to the end of the Great Recession (a coincidence?). Dunhill celebrated the 80th anniversary of its Don Candido line by issuing a very limited edition called Seleccion Suprema in only 1 size – a 6 X 50 toro. Dunhill states that this is the most exclusive launch in its history and the cigar is available in 8 count boxes...
Gurkha’s East India Classic Havana Blend Is Quite Good
East India has 6 separate blends in the market and the Classic Havana Blend is one of the best. The Havana Blend is offered in 4 shapes (robusto, toro, XO and figurado) and sports San Andres tobacco wrapped around proprietary binder and filler. The Havana is box pressed and made in Nicaragua. Gurkha provided me with a Havana toro at the IPCPR in New Orleans. The toro was attractive with an...
Crossfire Cigars Hit The Bullseye With Its Count of San Andres
I have reviewed Crossfire Cigars for a couple of years and found their cigars to generally be above average. At the 2015 IPCPR Crossfire introduced their Library Series, a new blend aimed at the premium market segment and they gave me a sample of the Count of San Andres to review. The San Andres was a 6 ¼ X 56 box pressed beauty, slightly darker than milk chocolate. It was firm and easy to...
Armistead by Battleground Cigars Deserves a General’s Name
When we hear about the war between the Blue and the Grey, famous sites such as Gettysburg, Manassas or Shilo and Generals Lee, Sherman and Grant come to mind. But Battleground Cigars, seemingly far from the war by being based in Hazardville, CT follows a Civil War theme in naming its cigars. At the 2015 IPCPR Battleground gave me an Armistead (Confederate General), one of their Widow’s Son...
