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Length: 7”
Ring Gauge: 48
Strength: Medium
Rating: 90
There are few people in the cigar industry who have achieved the level of recognition AJ Fernandez has in such short a time. Like many in the business, he was raised in Cuba where he was a student of tobacco growing and cigar making, but when AJ opened shop in Nicaragua, he quickly gained a reputation for being one of the nation’s best cigar makers. From the beginning, he understood that to produce outstanding cigars day after day, year after year, you have to grow your own tobacco and control the process. He operates 10 farms and 2 factories where his brands are precisely crafted under his watchful eye.
New World Cameroon is a brand that was created to commemorate the discovery and introduction of tobaccos grown in the New World (the Americas) to the old. Since 1492, these tobaccos have been the benchmark the world over. Additionally, the brand commemorates the 1st time AJ blended a cigar with his father, Ismael. Using Nicaraguan filler and binder tobaccos grown on his farms, AJ Fernandez capped this blend with a beautiful medium-brown, genuine Cameroon wrapper. Cameroon tobacco is a rare leaf and extremely flavorful. This box-pressed, medium-bodied cigar has wonderful notes of cedar and toasted nuts with hints of cinnamon, cocoa, and citrus. The New World Cameroon is a refreshing blend that will keep you coming back for more.
Length: 7”
Ring Gauge: 56
Strength: Mild-Medium
Cigar makers love to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and other special events with limited edition cigars. Nick Perdomo of Perdomo cigars has a bit of a different philosophy. He doesn’t want to create blends that people will only be able to enjoy in a short period of time. He wants to create cigars that you can enjoy over and over again. With that idea in mind, Perdomo created the Perdomo 20th Anniversary line as a regular production brand that celebrated his 20th year in the premium cigar industry. He meticulously plans for these celebratory cigars by growing and harvesting tobaccos of the utmost quality while ensuring there is enough supply in the pipeline to create a blend that is both captivating and can endure long haul production. While he has created limited products before, he prefers to make cigars that you can keep coming back to.
Perdomo’s philosophy of creating outstanding quality cigars at fair price points has served him well over the years, and his Perdomo 20th Anniversary Connecticut is an instant classic. He uses a blend of specially grown tobaccos from his farms featuring Nicaraguan Filler and binder leaves along with a gorgeous, golden-colored Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper that is oily and smooth. Tasting notes include cedar, cream and coffee with hints of honey, pepper and white chocolate. The Perdomo 20th Anniversary Connecticut is a rich and flavorful blend worthy of any celebration!
Length: 5”
Ring Gauge: 50
Strength: Mild-Medium
Rating: 88
Can’t clip my wings! That’s the motto of this upstart, boutique cigar company. Blackbird Cigar Co. produces some really interesting sticks using great tobaccos. They also own their own factory in the Dominican Republic where they can control production from raw material to finished product. While the brand is young (it launched in 2019), their debut products created quite a stir in the industry. Each cigar blend they produce is named after a bird or bird-related. In this case, the blend is named after a black bird and called the Jackdaw.
The Blackbird Finch is how the company wants you to enjoy a morning cigar. It is smooth and pleasant with just the right amount of complexity to pair well with a cup of coffee. It’s made in their factory in the Dominican Republic with care using a rich blend of top tier tobaccos. The blend features filler tobaccos from the Dominican Republic and the USA along with an Indonesian binder leaf. Topping the blend is a nice, medium brown Sumatra wrapper. Tasting notes include flavors of sweet cream. Almonds, and natural tobacco along with hints of pepper, vanilla, and cedar. These cigars are easy going and a perfect way to start your day!
Length: 5”
Ring Gauge: 50
Strength: Medium
Rating: 88
Cohiba is one of the most well-known names in the cigar industry, and it may be one of the best-known luxury brand names in the world. Ask anyone who swims in the upper echelons of society and they will surely tell you that Cohiba is the pinnacle of luxury. So how does one create a new Cohiba blend for this marquee brand? Very carefully. The management team at Cohiba approach each new product in a way that befits the status of its name. Their commitment is to create new and exciting blends for the brand using the finest raw materials (tobaccos) available, at the best factories in the world, and they only use their best cigar rollers to produce these cigars. It is this commitment that ensures each Cohiba will be a special experience for those who choose to enjoy them as they continue to create new cigars worthy of the Cohiba name.
At first glance, you know the Cohiba Red Dot is something special. Its gorgeous and well-styled red band grabs your eye and draws you in to take a closer look. The next thing you notice is the amazing Cameroon wrapper leaf that is amazingly uniform and full of “tooth” to let you know you’re in for one heck of a ride. Underneath is a combination of the finest Dominican Piloto Cubano filler tobacco and a Jember Indonesian binder leaf. After being rolled by some of the finest torcedores in the world, these spectacular cigars are laid to rest for at least 12 months in cedar chests to ensure maturity. Tasting notes include flavors of cedar, fatty nuts, and coffee along with hints of pepper, earth, and caramel. All of these flavors are well balanced and never overpower. These gorgeous cigars smoke beautifully and are truly worthy of the Cohiba name.
Length: 5”
Ring Gauge: 50
Strength: Medium
Rating: 88
There’s something about the Swiss and premium cigars. Maybe there’s something in the water, or maybe it’s the mingling of cultures and traditions from France, Germany, and Italy. Whatever the case may be, many people from Switzerland have made the jump into premium cigars. The name of Zino Davidoff comes to mind (and rightly so), but there are a few others who have broken free from local distribution and entered the world market. One of those is Cavalier Geneve, and boy did it make a splash in the US market. Retailers were excited by the simple band featuring a man with a horse and the great quality of the cigars. But it was the gold diamond on every cigar that really piqued their interest. Was it a bit of a gimmick? Maybe. But it is their hallmark. The gold diamond made of smokable/edible 24k gold is on every one of their cigars.
Sebastien Decoppet, Cavalier Geneve’s owner, wanted to create something totally unique in the premium cigar space. He wanted to create a blend centered around a Viso Jalapa wrapper which is normally reserved for premium cigar filler tobacco. It took him plenty of time to source enough quality material to create a cigar using this wrapper. The blend includes Habano filler and binder tobaccos just like in their popular Black II blend. But the Viso Jalapa wrapper changes the blend and creates a cigar that is medium in strength, but deep with rich complex flavors of toasted breads, cedar, and earth along with hints of nuts, browned butter, and raisin-like sweetness. The brand’s hallmark smokeable Gold Leaf Diamond is prominently displayed on each cigar in hopes to entice you into picking some up. The packaging and gold may draw your attention, but the well balanced flavors and excellent construction will have you coming back for more.
