John Thomas From D.R. Wholesale – a United Nations Cigar
D.R. Wholesale Cigars from Orlando Florida showcased several cigars at the annual IPCPR held in New Orleans in 2015 and provided me with a sample of their John Thomas (JT) brand. I found very little information on D.R. Wholesale. However, the JT cigar was a 7 X 60 handful with an Habano wrapper around an Ecuadorain binder and filler from Honduras, Mexico and Panama and Nicaragua. I consider the...
Panacea 658
With so many cigar producers out there it is hard to find anything new and genuine in the clutter of people rushing to market bad cigar to take advantage of the popularity that cigars have become. So, it is with great joy that I discovered a Panacea Green label in my humidor. Obviously, it was a stick obtained at last years trade show, that I was now just getting to. To start with...
Montecristo’s Monte – My “Go To” Cigar
Altadis is behind a number of well-known brands such as H Upman, Romeo y Julieta, Saint Luis Rey and Montecristo. However, Altadis is also the exclusive seller of luxury Cuban cigars worldwide handling Cohiba, Davidoff, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey. I have smoked all of them. This is a company that knows quality cigars and in 2013 I had the pleasure of reviewing the introduction of the...
La Sirena’s King Poseidon – the Mermaid’s Cigar
La Sirena (the Mermaid) has been on the market for about 6 years and has grown from the original blend to 4 blends – Original, Merlion, Oceano and Old School. And the brand split off from Miami Cigar to be owned by Arielle Ditkowich, its founder. I expect Arielle is the beautiful mermaid prominently displayed on La Sirena’s website. I try to visit as many booths as possible at the IPCPR and...
Entrada – THE cigar from Omaha.
In 2013 another cigar retailer launched his own blend of cigars, this time from Omaha Nebraska. The cigars are made in Nicaragua by Casa Fernandez and the cigar is called Entrada (entrance) and the company is called Casa de Entrada. As a retailer, Casa de Entrada makes the cigars for brick and mortar operations only and launched the cigar at the 2014 IPCPR where they gave me a 6 X 60 gordo to...
A Threesome on a Blue Mountain?
Blue Mountian Cigars, Marvin Wright’s Nicaraguan cigar company, sells a stick that looks like 3 different cigars cut into thirds with the cap part of the maduro cigar attached to the middle of a Habano cigar and the foot is from a Connecticut wrapped cigar. Hence the name El Threesome – for 3 wrappers around 3 blends, all separate but in the same cigar. Unusual approach and unusual...
