La Palina introduced their first maduro, La Palina Maduro, at IPCPR in 2012. Available to customers in November 2012, the cigar retails for $9.25 and comes in boxes of 20. The cigar is made with a Mexican maduro wrapper, double Honduran binders and Nicaraguan fillers. Currently, the cigar comes in 4 sizes: 60 – 6 […]
Opus X Chili Pepper
Fuente’s Opus X brand has long been a standard for high quality, rare cigars. They are sought after worldwide and include many special sizes that are highly coveted. One of those rare cigars is the Opux X Chili Pepper. Named that after the special shape the figurado is rolled into, it has long been something […]
Accessory Review: Xikar Mayan Table Top Light and Xikar VX Metal V Cutter
I’ve had several people ask me to do some accessory reviews, especially of items I use regularly. I thought that was a good idea and something that seems neglected by us and many of our other brother and sisters of the leaf reviewers. For the first review, I had to use two of my most […]
Gun and Cigars – Lets Strike a Match Up
Ben: This article, which I co-wrote wrote with Student of the Gun host and author, Park Markel, took on an interesting concept of pairing cigars with certain firearms. Many of us shoot for recreation, hunting, sport, etc and we also smoke our cigars on the range while doing it. Paul had the idea of what […]
Quesada Jalapa Robusto
A couple years ago, Quesada released the Seleccion Espana to the Spanish market, but only in the US to a very select few Quesada retailers. People that were able to get some, like myself, absolutely loved the cigar and bombarded Quesada with request to have a full release here in the US. This year, Quesada […]
Davidoff Royal Salomones
The Davidoff brand has always been known as the pinnacle of cigar perfection and the luxury brand cigar in the industry. Their attention to detail in cigar making is second to none. All of this also translates into an expensive cigar. If you’ve ever seen a video or were lucky enough to visit their factory […]
Elogio Habano Crescent City Cigars Exclusivo
Crescent City Cigars has released a special exclusive cigar from Elogio called the Elogio Habano Crescent City Cigars Exclusivo. If you’ve followed me for very long, whether on Twitter, Facebook or my video reviews, you know about how much I’ve fallen for the Elogio brand. A very small, exclusive boutique, these cigars are made to exquisite standards […]
Dunhill Aged 2003 Reserva Especial
General Cigar made the Dunhill Aged 2003 Reserva Especial for Dunhill at their Dominican facilities, using a special aging process which uses tercios covered in yagua, bark of the Royal palm. Yagua allows excellent protection for the tobacco while still allowing it to breathe. This process takes about 2 years. The tobacco is then aged in […]
Ben’s Recent Smokes – Inaugural Edition
I figured it was about time to have my first week/month in smoke at Stogie Review. Its kind of a Stogie Review specialty. Instead of limiting my time frame to either days, week or month, I’m just going to call it my recent smokes because I truly have no idea how far I might go […]
Top Cigars of the Year – A Second Opinion
As you’ve probably seen, its that time of the year where you are bombarded by Top Cigars of the Year list. The biggest and most influential of the list is the one put out by Cigar Aficionado, the lifestyle magazine. Usually this leads to a run on, at the very least, the top ten cigars […]