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Continue reading →: Review: Ferio Tego Timeless PrestigeThe Ferio Tego Timeless Prestige’s profile may be familiar, but it’s never careless. Everything has a place. Nothing feels accidental. The cigar doesn’t try to impress. It simply knows what it is.
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Continue reading →: Where the Hell Is the Spice?Spice is one of the most misunderstood words in cigar reviewing. It isn’t always flavor. Sometimes it’s aroma. Sometimes it’s heat, pressure, dryness, irritation, lift, or structure. It’s not about whether a cigar is spicy. It’s about where the spice lands, how it moves, what it touches, and whether it…
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Continue reading →: Exciting New Release from… La Gloria CubanaYes, you read that correctly. And no, it’s not a limited edition like the 8th Street or Spirit of the Lady. It’s called Intención, and it’s a new regular-production cigar. According to LGC, Intención “goes back to the beginnings of La Gloria Cubana by bringing fans bolder blends and larger…
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Continue reading →: Review: Crowned Heads Mil Dias MaduroThis isn’t the Mil Días I expected. I went in anticipating Broadleaf darkness, but the cigar had other plans. It’s full of energy and lively to the end.
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Continue reading →: Review: Definition Cigars One13Some cigars are enjoyable. Some cigars are impressive. One13 is invasive. In a good way. But still invasive.
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Continue reading →: Hygroscopy and YouTobacco is hygroscopic. It constantly exchanges moisture with the air around it, absorbing, releasing, adjusting, and equalizing long before it ever reaches your humidor. That single property shapes the cigar. A cigar doesn’t stop being tobacco once it’s rolled. It keeps negotiating with the world around it until the moment…
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Continue reading →: Boutique Blenders I Pay Attention ToThe best boutique cigars don’t just taste good. They feel directed, as if someone had an idea and followed it all the way through. These are the blenders and blending teams I watch because their cigars make me stop, listen, and ask what they were trying to say.
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Continue reading →: Guest Review: La Aurora Family Creed PerveranciaThe second in La Aurora’s Family Creed line, this cigar’s blend sheet suggests strength and aggression that’s earthy and spicy. And La Aurora’s own market copy says it’s supposed to be bolder and stronger than the Fuerte Sol. But Perseverancia has other things in mind. Read the review on Katman’s…
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Continue reading →: Review: Lanuza Cigars MaduroThe Lanuza Maduro may seem chaotic, but it’s a study in controlled chaos. It changes faces again and again, like a Bian Lian performer. Yet the core never disappears, and the cream never stops holding everything together. This cigar doesn’t change because it loses control. Those changes were designed.
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Continue reading →: HVC La Decoración Quick ReviewIt walks like a Cuban. Talks like a Cuban. But its flavor profile is Nicaraguan through and through. It is delicious, expressive, and surprisingly nuanced. This is one of the few cigars I’ve found that lives up to that Cuban-meets-Nicaraguan ideal.



