Tuesday, January 15, 2013

ZIno Platinum Z-class

Zino Platinum Z-Class cigars feature Nicaraguan and Honduran longfillers framed in Peruvian binders and capped in dark Dominican wrappers grown in the Yamasa region. These carefully-selected and aged tobaccos create a spicy, medium-to-full bodied cigar. While Z-Class is the fullest-bodied and most complex Zino Platinum to date, each shape has its own unique strength and flavor. Zino Platinum smokers demand perfection, and Z-Class delivers exactly that.

My Uzi Weighs a Ton

Introducing Jonathan Drew’s latest creation, My Uzi Weighs a Ton - a most excellent edition to Drew Estate’s Subculture Studio. This joint project with Joya de Nicaragua is medium to full in body, and boasts a husky series of 60-ring vitolas booming with flavor. Dark and oily San Andres maduro wrappers conceal a hefty dose of Nicaraguan and Brazilian long-fillers secured by a smooth Connecticut ’Capote’ binder. The smoke is hearty and rich, unveiling a deep series of bold yet balanced flavors from start to finish. Layered with complexity - earth, leather, pepper, sweetness, cocoa - the massive 60-ring frame is the ultimate vehicle to savor each of these complex intricacies throughout the slow and cool burn.

Flor De Las Antillas

Box-pressed beauties from My Father.

Introducing the Flor de las Antillas, the first entirely box-pressed line from My Father cigars. Meaning ’Flower of the Antilles’, the Flor de las Antillas represents Cuba, the largest island in the Greater Antilles islands, and home to the Garcia family’s rich cigar making heritage. Traditionally focused on more full-bodied cigars, Flor de las Antillas ventures into the company’s untapped niche of a true medium-bodied experience.

Featuring an all-Nicaraguan blend of tobaccos, Flor de las Antillas maintains My Father’s reputation for crafting full-flavored, well constructed handmades. Greeting you from the outside is a dark brown Nicaraguan Sun Grown wrapper beautifully box-pressed and smooth to the touch. This leaf houses a bouquet of Nicaraguan long-fillers and binder, to create an exceptionally balanced and smooth experience. Each Flor de las Antillas delivers a distinct array of flavors, including notes of cocoa, pepper, sweet cedar, and earth. From start to finish, Flor de las Antillas maintains its smooth character and never goes a tick over medium-bodied, creating an anytime of day My Father experience.

It didn’t take long for Flor de Las Antillas to catch the eye of critics earning eight 90+ ratings, including #1 Cigar of the Year honors and a 96-point score in the process, which noted: "Delicious from the first puff, with notes of nutmeg, white pepper and just enough strength without being overpowering. They are hard to put down."

Monday, December 17, 2012

La Aroma De cuba Mi Amor reserva

Hand-crafted in Nicaragua at Pepin Garcia’s My Father factory, Mi Amor Reserva is draped in a dark and enticing Cuban-seed San Andres Oscuro wrapper. This toothsome leaf hugs a potent array of aged Nicaraguan long-fillers. Together this ensemble delivers a bevy of rich, smooth flavors in spades. Notes of roasted coffee, cocoa, earth, sweetness and a hint of cedar all make an appearance behind an impressively refined finish. Throughout the cool, slow burn, expect a gentle note of spice to enter the fray, weaving its way through the impressive bouquet. Although a tad stronger than its counterpart, Mi Amor Reserva never sacrifices an ounce of that renowned La Aroma smoothness.

torano master maduro and salutem

Since launching the original Master in 2010, the brand has received numerous 90+ ratings, including a 98 rating in Cigar Journal Magazine, the Torano Family added a Maduro version with a Nicaraguan/Dominican core, Ecuador Habano binder, and a sun-grown Nicaraguan Habano Maduro wrapper. The result was a complex cigar with an abundance of flavor and sweet-spicy notes.






 
Salutem cigar by is a new, exciting cigar from Carlos Torano. Salutem means Welcome in Latin and we certainly welcome this new intro. Dressed in Habano wrapper from Ecuador, with Jalapa Valley binder, and Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Cameroon filler blend this brand is complex and very well balanced. Choosing Cameroon tobacco for the filler makes for a unique and tasty blend with outstanding spicy-sweetness. The process of including Cameroon inside the cigar (instead in the outside wrapper) is rare and adds to the distinctive aroma of the Salutem cigar. The wrapper is an awesome Habano leaf grown in Ecuador, soaking with rich tobacco aromatic oils that ensure even, study, burn and add plenty of nutty flavors to the Salutem cigar. There is a very unique taste to these cigars. I enjoy them.
 

La Flor Dominicana Limitado V Cigars

  The newly released LFD Limitado V cigars will be La Flor Domincana's fifth installment in the Limitado cigar series, which is released every two years. This new LFD Limitado V has a awesome powerful blend with fillers coming from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic which is wrapped by a seamless Ecuadorian Sumatra ligero wrapper. These La Flor Dominicana Limitado V will be very scarce and La Flor Domincana only produced 2000 boxes in the States

CAO concert series


 
The CAO Concert is a real concert to all your senses. The box design is a recreation of an old Marshall Music amp with the exact layout of the different gain controls and the cigars inside are the best of CAO. Nashville which is synonymous with music and cigars has a new player in town courtesy of CAO. The CAO Concert is perhaps their most adventurous and exceptional release to date. From the brand that was launched in Nashville and marches to the beat of its own drum comes CAO Concert, a new collection that celebrates CAO’s ties to music and harnesses the legendary energy of Music City. “CAO Concert was inspired by the brand’s roots in Nashville,” commented Ed McKenna, CAO’s senior brand manager. “When listening to music at a concert, or even in your own backyard, it’s a great time to sit back, enjoy a great cigar, and enjoy the people you’re with. That’s what Concert is about.”The four-cigar collection is firmly planted in the full-medium-bodied range, with great harmony of flavor among the tobaccos. CAO’s Rick Rodriguez created the blend which features a special combination of four different Nicaraguan and Honduran fillers, not previously used in any other General Cigar offering. Wrapped with a lustrous Ecuadorian Habano Rosado and bound with CT Broadleaf, CAO Concert begins with a kick of pepper, mellows with hints of subtle sweetness and comes to a full-flavored finish.