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The CAO Session is the latest release and has been introduced as the siganature cigar of CAO Master Blender Rick Rodriguez. The CAO Session comes in 20 count boxes in the following vitolas: Garage (5 1/4 inches by 54 ring gauge, $8.59) Bar (6 by 49, $8.99) Shop (6 by 60, $9.59) Todays review is […]
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The CAO Flathead V19 is the latest in the Flathead brand. It is a limited production of 2,350 boxes.
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Earlier this month, CAO announced the fourth blend of the Amazon series. It’s called Orellana and it joins the three other blends; Amazon Basin, Fuma em Corda and Anaconda, each featuring rare Amazonian tobaccos.
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M.Esteli is a new cigar brand, just released from Bombay Tabak. It joins the ranks of the well received MBOMBAY and GAAJA brands.
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The Romeo y Julieta 1875 Nicaraguan is a puro that was released late last year. As the name implies, the cigar is constructed with wrapper, binder and filler leaves from Nicaragua. The cigar is manufactured by Plasencia Cigars S.A. for Altadis.
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This week, I’m reviewing Sinistro Cigars’ Habana Vieja. The cigar I sampled came as part of my monthly StogieBird subscription. The Habana Vieja I smoked was a Corona vitola with a length of 5 1/2 inches and 42 ring diameter.
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Diesel’s Hair of the Dog was released in March of this year. It was developed by AJ Fernandez with Justin Andrews, (Senior Brand Manager at General Cigar) and rolled at Tabacalera AJ Fernandez in Esteli, Nicaragua.
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Drew Estate’s ACID Blue is the “flagship” line of ACID which was first produced back in 1999. The cigar is on the smallish side at 4″ by 38 ring gauge and are sold in boxes of 40. The blend is comprised of a Connecticut Shade wrapper and a binder and fillers from Nicaragua. AppearanceThe CT. […]
Continue ReadingA long time ago, I signed up on a website named Quora. Since then, I get a lot of emails from the site with questions it thinks I can answer. The majority of the questions are unrelated to the topics had listed in my profile. Some of them are intelligently written and I at least […]
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Diesel’s Whiskey Row which was released in June, is a partnership between Diesel, A.J.Fernandez and Rabbit Hole Bourbon. The cigar is distributed by General Cigar Corporation. Rabbit Hole Bourbon provided used bourbon barrels to A. J. Fernandez who then placed Mexican binder leaf in the barrels for aging.
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