Tuesday, June 7, 2011

La Gloria Cubana Serie N and Artesanos de Tabaqueros


La Gloria Cubana Oscuro!

Serie N is a bolder, richer addition to the storied La Gloria Cubana line. Crafted with a pitch-black Oscuro wrapper leaf, and a proprietary Nicaraguan binder and filler blend, Serie N unleashes a bold, complex profile. Notes of coffee, cocoa, pepper are finished by slight sweetness. Delicious indeed.

And to take it to the next level, La Gloria Cubana Serie N comes impressively presented in a high-gloss hexagon shaped box.


The Artesanos de Tabaqueros is truly a unique delight from La Gloria Cubana. Handmade in the Dominican Republic with a Honduras filler La Gloria has brought this cigar to a new level. Two thirds of the cigar is comprised of a beautifully rich Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, while everything from the band down is Connecticut shade. Two distinct flavors dance wonderfully together allowing a combination of chocolates and coffee from the Sumatra side and a distinct flavor of earth and nuts from the Connecticut side. This medium body cigar offers a clean, slow burn, and just the right amount of spice for a pleasurable experience.


In a buy 2 get 1 free deal you can try one in each size!

Avo Heritage


An Avo with a nice bite to it.

The Heritage Series of AVO is a remarkable, medium to full-bodied blend that pays homage to the farmers, blenders, and rollers responsible for making AVO one of the industry’s premier, super-premium brands. Avo Uvezian worked side by side with cigar-making legend Hendrik ’Henke’ Kelner to select the finest Cuban-seed, Ecuadorian sun-grown wrappers attainable, and combine a robust mixture of Cuban-seed Dominican long-fillers inside. The result is a satisfying series of rich, complex flavors delivered in smooth, balanced fashion. The core is creamy with notes of toast and cocoa, and a touch of sweet cedar and subtle spices on the finish.

AVO Heritage Series was awarded a 90-point rating, noting: "A very dark and oily cigar that smokes evenly. It starts out a bit papery but warms to show a woody, leathery
character and apple-like sweetness."

Cain Daytona


Oliva Cain Daytona cigars, like their cousins, are handcrafted by Oliva Cigars in Esteli, Nicaragua. This new edition consists of longfiller ligero leaves grown in the Jalapa Valley rolled in a lush, milder tasting Habano wrapper, making this 'straight ligero' blend very attractive to those who want a more medium-bodied Cain cigar. Daytona offers a full-flavored, ultra smooth smoke with an excellent balance of flavors that include coffee, mild pepper, and sweet tobacco notes.


Tatuaje Ambos Mundos

Just in!

Ambos Mundos Cigars by Tatuaje’s Pete Johnson, was created of 2009 to be an affordable line. The Ambos Mundos uses a slightly lesser grade tobacco, usually Tobacco with nothing more but a few blemishes like water marks, mainly in the wrappers used on his highly acclaimed Tatuaje Brown Label and Cabaiguan cigars. These tobaccos may be a lower grade, but they pack all the taste and body you expect from a Nicaraguan cigar created by Pete Johnson and Don Jose Pepin Garcia. Packed in boxes of 25 available in a handful of sizes ranging from a 5 x 50 Robusto to a 5 ½ x 56 Grande, and also available in two wrapper styles a Nicaraguan Habano or an Ecuadorian Sumatra.