Another Winner comes from 231 Rockhill Road
Cuban Stock has done it again!!! It has been a tiring year at CigarMayven.com. We had several challenges with our CigarMadness2016 contest. All of our reviewers were smoked out having to smoke and score well over 65 cigars in a short 6 week period. Speaking for myself, I took a few weeks off from cigars. And then cam back to deal with web issues that had developed while we were all busy...
John Thomas From D.R. Wholesale – a United Nations Cigar
D.R. Wholesale Cigars from Orlando Florida showcased several cigars at the annual IPCPR held in New Orleans in 2015 and provided me with a sample of their John Thomas (JT) brand. I found very little information on D.R. Wholesale. However, the JT cigar was a 7 X 60 handful with an Habano wrapper around an Ecuadorain binder and filler from Honduras, Mexico and Panama and Nicaragua. I consider the...
Jose Blanco’s New Senorial Cigars Are Worth A Try
Jose Blanco has a well established reputation after a long career at La Aurora and a shorter stint at Joya de Nicaragua. Leaving a short retirement, Jose created Las Cumbres Tabaco in 2014 to launch his new Senorial blend, marketed as a full bodied, full flavored cigar. This blend uses Dominican Piloto Cubano and Dominican Corojo fillers with an Esteli Nicaraguan binder, all wrapped by an...
Esteban Carreras- A Nice Smoke
It’s been quite some time since I enjoyed reviewing a cigar. Reviews over the past month or so have focused on our CigarMadness2016 smoking contest. Results of that contest should be posted within a few weeks to coincide with the basketball. It has been fun smoking and reviewing some great sticks. But it has left little time for other reviews. If you can’t sympathize because...
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...
OPK by Battleground Cigars Is OK
Battleground Cigars features Civil War themes when naming its blends. Battleground is located in Hazardville, Connecticut which was a major supplier of gunpowder to the war so the naming approach makes historical sense. At the 2015 IPCPR Battleground gave me an OPK (Old Powder Keg) to review. The OPK was 6 X 62 box pressed cigar with a Corojo wrapper, Connecticut binder and Dominican and...
