Casa Magna Oscuro

With Daniel slacking it out of town, I know we are running thin on reviews this week. And the fact that I have been dealing with a bit of family things as well as a heavy work load doesn’t help. Luckily, a good friend and great BOTL Adam who owns my favorite local shop, Tobacco [...]

Montecristo Petit Edmundo (Cuban)

The Montecristo Petit Edmundo is quickly making it’s way to the top of many people’s favorite cigar lists. It’s a fairly new cigar to the Montecristo brand and brings a totally different blend of Cuban tobacco into the mix. It may share a name similarity with it’s larger brother, the Montecristo Edmundo, but the flavors [...]

Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series Maduro Principe

The Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series is a fantastic, toothy looking box-pressed cigar from Nicaragua. This is the type of cigar you keep in your humidor for special occasions, then light it up sit back and enjoy. This line was released in 1994 to commemorate the Padrón Cigar Company’s 30 years in business. As you can [...]

Man O’ War Torpedo

The Man O War line is the brain child of the Cuban born Abdel “AJ” Fernandez. AJ is now living in Nicaragua but used to work under the supervision of Cuban cigar master, Alejandro Robaina. After moving to Nicaragua, AJ began making his own line of cigars as well as blending for other companies. Some [...]

Illusione ~mk~ The Teaching Machine

Illusione is the creation of Dion Giolito and is a true small batch production line. Dion has put a lot of thought into the name of the line and the name of each vitola. All have a significance behind them and each has a meaning to Dion himself. The Illusione goal is to “re-create a [...]

Padrón 1926 Serie No. 35 Maduro

Padrón is synonymous with great high-quality cigars, both on the premium and inexpensive levels. Most anyone who smokes cigars has tried or at least heard the Padrón name. Damaso Padrón and his sons cultivated tobacco fields in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, in the 1800’s and began the legacy of the Padrón family name. Sometime later, [...]

Garo Habano Blue

Our friends over at Garo Habano Fine Cigars sent us a few of their cigars to be reviewed. Over my next few reviews I will be evaluating the samples they sent us. You can read more about Garo Habano Fine Cigars by visiting their website at www.garohabano.com. Garo Habano was established in 1996 by Dr. [...]

Oliva – NUb – Cain Habano Ligero Belicoso Cigar Review

I don’t even know where to start with this review, but I am extremely lucky to have gotten my hands on one of Oliva Cigars newest products, The Cain Habano Ligero. Being that I am new to cigar reviews, I spend a lot of time reading other sites and blogs. One name stood out as [...]

Camacho Corojo Monarca Cigar Review

This week’s review (although a little late) is Camacho’s Corojo Monarca. Although I am an infused cigar smoker, these were sent to me via a campaign Camacho was running. I’m not going to go into details, just know that because of this campaign I will not be posted any pictures of the cigar I took [...]