Oliva Master Blend 3
For the past number of years, Oliva has specially blended a line of cigars called the Master Blends. This cigar is form the third in that series, hence its name. It’s also called Liga Maestra. The tobacco blend for this years cigar is all Nicaraguan with the filler being a ligero leaf (this is a very rich an intenste tobacco leaf), the binder being a Habano, and the wrapper being...
Cusano P1 is a Bundled Delight
Cusano deconstructed To be honest, I can’t remember the last time I smoked a bundled cigar. And, if I didn’t know that this stick was a bundled product, I couldn’t have tasted a difference. Bundled cigars are frequently made using left over or scrap tobacco. It is not seconds in the sense that it is inferior in any way, but rather, it may be...
E.P. Carillo Long History- New Cigar
Ernie Carillo has a long history in the cigar business. His father, made cigars for many years after coming to this country form Cuba after the revolution and Ernie after a stint as a Jazz musician returned to the family busines – making La Gloria Cubana cigars many years ago. After a very successful run at the helm of this cigar company he sold out. Shortly thereafter he founded EP...
A Fuente Gran Reserva
A. Fuente is celebrating their 100th anniversary year. They have been making cigars for a very long time. And it shows. The company is run by Carlos Fuente, Sr. and his children, Carlos Fuente, Jr. (known as Carlito) and Cynthia Fuente-Saurez. They are wonderful people quite generous and charitable. They have provided for the education of thousands in the Domincan Republic by...
Rafaeli Churchill, a Jeweler on a Budget
David Rafaeli, a jewler, is the CEO of Miraculous Templar Cigars and selected the Templar’s Iron Cross with a diamond insert as the cigars logo. At first look you notice that the cigar appear to be too veiny, lighting end appeared unfinished. You also notice the end is prepunched for you, usually a mark of an inferior cigar. Nevertheless, it proves to be a reasonable cigar in the right...
St. Luis Rey Titan a Full Bodied Giant
This is a large cigar. The tendency over the last few years of smokers is to seek out and enjoy larger shapes. And, this will certainly fit that bill. Cigar ring size or gauge is measured in 64ths of an inch, so 60 is almost a full inch around. That’s a lot of cigar. In addition to being a bigger cigar with more tobacco, larger rings smoke cooler. The thicker the cigar the...
