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Cigar Reviews and Ratings at Cigar Inspector. A Cigar Smoker's Journal. Best Cigars - Top 10 Selling Cigars - Most Popular Lines. The Top 10 Cigars of the Year. Casa Magna Robusto. The 25 Best Cigars of 2010 | Top 25. The smoke has cleared and the ashes have settled. After puffing our way through an entire year of taste tests, the editorial team at Cigar Aficionado has chosen the Top 25 Cigars of 2013. We smoked more than 700 cigars to get to the 25 that made this list, and the process was a thorough one. As the year drew to a close, we reviewed the list of cigars that had scored at least 91 points in Cigar Aficionado or Cigar Insider blind taste tests throughout the year. We culled that list to 45 cigars, eliminating those no longer on the market and considering only the highest-scoring cigars from each brand.
(If a Cohiba Robusto, for example, scored 93 points and a Cohiba Esplendido scored 91, we promoted the Robusto to final consideration and eliminated the Esplendido.) What was left was a list of 45 standout cigars. At the conclusion of that taste test, 13 cigars had rated high enough to be considered candidates for Cigar of the Year. Best Bargain Cigars of 2010 | News & Features.
David Savona Posted: January 7, 2011 Everyone appreciates a bargain, especially today. Cigarmakers from around the world are striving to release cigars with good quality as well as reasonable price tags. If a cigar scores 88 points or more and has a suggested retail price of $6 or less, we call it a Best Buy. Some are made by familiar names such as Arturo Fuente, C.A.O., La Gloria Cubana, Oliva, Padrón and Rocky Patel. 93 points C.A.O.
La Aroma de Cuba RobustoNicaragua • 5" by 54 • $5.25 Vallejuelo Robusto GordoDom. 92 points Alec Bradley Family Blend D3Honduras • 4 1/2" by 58 • $5.95 La Gloria Cubana Serie R No. 3Dom. Vallejuelo Gran ToroDom. You must be logged in to post a comment. Best Bargain Cigars of 2009 | News & Features. Gregory Mottola From the Print Edition: George Lopez, January/February 2010 Americans are natural bargain hunters. It's a national instinct that has developed over decades of comparison shopping, chasing down sales and other adapted behavior to best survive in the free market. The cigar smoker wants as much value for his dollar as anyone else, but is also cognizant of quality, perhaps more so than the average consumer, so we have amassed our annual list of high-quality, bargain cigars.
This year, a bargain is defined as any cigar that costs no more than $6 and scored no less than 88 points in our ratings. The previous "bargain" cap was $5, but given inflation, rising taxes and the general increased costs of operation, we decided to raise the margin by a dollar. As a result, the list grew exponentially. These entries were taken from both Cigar Aficionado and the Cigar Insider. 91 points Brick House Churchill, Nicaragua 7 1/4" by 50, $5.75 Oliva Serie O Torpedo, Nicaragua 6" by 52, .60. Stogie Review. Padron 1964 Anniversary Exclusivo Maduro « Cigarfan.net. Padron’s 1964 Anniversary cigars are so classic at this point that it’s hard to believe the blend is only fifteen years old. The 1964 was created to celebrate the Padron company’s 30th Anniversary in 1994. It was also, as George Padron added in a CA interview, “something special as we went to nationwide distribution.”
There are currently ten sizes in production, all available in either a sun-grown natural wrapper or maduro. The maduro version seems to be the most popular, but I have to say I like the natural just as well, if not better. Padron is proud of its seed-to-smoke, vertically integrated operation, so the Anniversary blend is like all the rest of their cigars: an undisputed Nicaraguan puro.
Jorge Padron, the patriarch of the family, explains that the cigars are square pressed, “because they reminded me of the squared cigars in Cuba that I used to smoke. The cigars I smoked for the review were from 2006. Construction Notes Tasting Notes Conclusion Final Score: 94 Other Reviews of Note. Frank Llaneza 1961 Cuban Corona « Cigarfan.net. Frank Llaneza is a lion of the cigar industry who has been described by the Wall Street Journal as “the last grand old man of the cigar business as it was carried over from Cuba.” He is best known as the former president of Villazon & Co., which was started by his father and his partners in Tampa in 1920. Young Frank was conscripted into the cigar industry, starting out with janitorial duties in his father’s factory, a job that he would have gladly forsaken to spend more time in school instead. But this was the during the Depression, and his choices were limited. As part of his education in the business he soon left for Cuba, where he learned how to select wrapper leaf under the legendary Angel Oliva, Sr., a man who would become first his mentor and later his collaborator.
Llaneza was on the ground in Cuba “when Fidel Castro came down from the mountains into Havana.” He saw changes on the horizon, but initially he didn’t see the extent of them. Six sizes are available: Construction Notes.