Thanks for everyone who voted for this week’s review on The Stogie Review Fan Forums. It was a tight race and the La Herencia Cubana was the dark horse and came out of no where to win it in the end. The La Herencia Cubana is another cigar from the stables of AJ Fernandez. Similar […]
Gurkha Empire V
Origin : Unknown Wrapper : Ecuadorian Connecticut Binder : Unknown Filler : Long-leaf Honduran, Nicaraguan and Mexican Source : Purchased from Cigars International with my own funds Today I have for you the Gurkha Empire V. This is a cigar that there is not much information floating around on except what is on the Cigar’s […]
Gurkha Empire IV
Origin : Unknown Wrapper : Brazilian Arapiraca Binder : Unknown Filler : Long-leaf Dominican and Nicaraguan Source : Purchased from Cigars International with my own funds Today I have for you the Gurkha Empire IV. This is a cigar that there is not much information floating around on except what is on the Cigar’s International […]
Gurkha Empire III
Origin : Unknown Wrapper : Costa Rican Maduro Binder : Unknown Filler : Long-leaf Dominican and Honduran Source : Purchased from Cigars International with my own funds Today I have for you the Gurkha Empire III. This is a cigar that there is not much information floating around on except what is on the Cigar’s […]
Man O’ War Special Edition Figurado
The Stogie Review Fan Forums voted and up next is the Man O’ War Special Edition Figurado. AJ Fernandez borrows a page from the work he did with Rocky Patel in developing the Rocky Patel Fusion by making a MoW hybrid. With Rocky, AJ combined the Vintage 1990 and Vintage 1992 to make the Rocky […]
Tatuaje Black Tubos
Along with the Tatuaje Verocru Tubos, the Tatuaje Black Tubos could’ve been the most anticipated cigars to be released in 2009? Maybe? One thing that is harder to argue about is that Pete Johnson has had one of the hottest hands in the cigar industry for at least the last year. The Tatuaje Black Tubos […]
Gurkha Empire II
Origin : Unknown Wrapper : Dark Connecticut Binder : Unknown Filler : Long-leaf Ligero from the Dominican Source : Purchased from Cigars International with my own funds Today I have for you the Gurkha Empire II. This is a cigar that there is not much information floating around on except what is on the Cigar’s […]
Gran Habano Azteca (Pre Release)
Brand: Gran Habano Azteca Blender: George Rico Vitola: Toro Ring Gauge: 52ish Length: 6.00 Wrapper: San Andres Valley – Mexico (Double Maduro) Binder: San Andres Valley – Mexico Filler: Panamanian and Nicarguan Origin: Honduras MSRP: Unknown Purchased From: Sample from Kensington Tobacconist Last week while making my usual Friday afternoon visit to Kensington Tobacconist, I […]
Tatuaje Boris
The Tatuaje Boris has been out for awhile. I’m sure you’re wondering why I’ve chosen now to review it? First, when the Boris was released everyone jumped on it. Blog after blog, forum after forum were flooded with reviews. By now, you all know what an attention whore I can be and I didn’t want […]
Zino Platinum Crown Series Emperor 2009 (First Impressions)
We will see how this goes over. Since this is a First Impressions, I just basically included my notes in the write up with a bit of editing. Pre-light and first puffs – nice smooth oily wrapper, not much odor to it, see papers for info on it. Light up was great, first puffs were […]