Aging Room’s La Boheme is a Star
I have reviewed and enjoyed several cigars from Boutique Blends, the organization behind the Aging Room and Swag. Last year the Aging Room launched another premium cigar called La Boheme, named after a famous opera. At the 2014 IPCPR, Aging Room gave me the “Pittore”, a 5 1/8 X 52 vitola of La Boheme, to review. La Boheme uses an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper around Dominican binder and filler....
Accept the Challenge! A New Royal Maduro from Gurkha.
Gurkha has had a lot of success with its Royal Challenge blend and in 2014 Gurkha extended the brand by introducing a Maduro version. The Maduro wraps a broadleaf maduro around the Habano/Honduran binder and Nicaraguan/Dominican filler of the original Royal Challenge cigar, giving it a new taste. The size profile ranges from a 5 X 50 robusto to a 7 X 52 Churchill. Gurkha provided me with a...
1881 Perique – Unique from Tabacalera Incorporada
Tabacalera has one of the oldest, if not the oldest, tobacco operation dating back to 1881. Tabacalera is based in Makati City in the Philippines. In 2014 Tabacalera introduced its 1881 Perique cigar. Perique is better known to pipe smokers as it is sometimes blended into pipe tobaccos for its strong aroma and flavor. True Perique is produced only in St. James Parish, Louisiana where the tobacco...
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...
