Blue Eyed Jacks’ Revenge is the second release in the second chapter of the ADV story. Following up on Barbarroja’s Invasion. It’s time for revenge, says the ADVentura website. ADVentura Blue Eyed Jack’s Revenge is available three sizes; Corona (6 x 44), Toro (6 x 54) and today’s review Robusto (5 x 52). The first chapter was released in 2022 months before the factory suffered a devastating fire that wiped out everything the company had. […]
Aganorsa Leaf Arsenio is named after Arsenio Ramos the former master blender at the Nicaragua based company who passed away in 2018 at the age of 83. It’s the first time Aganorsa has released a cigar with his name, though when the company was known as Casa Fernández there was a line called, Casa Fernandez Arsenio which has long been discontinued. Arsenio Ramos was born in Cuba in 1934 where we worked for decades in […]
The Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 3 is the latest release of a brand that was almost dead. In July 2019, Rafael Nodal and his team at Altadis USA resurrected a brand that was barely alive with the release of the Trinidad Espiritu No. 1. The history of the brand dates back to 1905 in Cuba. In 1920, Diego Trinidad Jr. took over the family business, incorporated it in 1958 and renamed it TTT Trinidad. Then […]
The Wise Man Corojo is a new cigar with a tie in to an old cigar and a lesson in poor marketing. El Güegüense will go down has one of the worst names in the history of cigars. The cigar which was named after a satirical play written in the 16th Century was difficult to pronounce and spell making it a very hard name for the typical cigar smoker to grasp. It wasn’t until the […]
In 2023 the Aladino Candela Robusto was launched by JRE Tobacco Co. It was released to 32 stores in a soft launch of 400 boxes total. Fast forward to 2024, JRE Tobacco has released the Aladino Toro version at TPE ’24 in Las Vegas. The cigar industry has embraced candela cigar for a St. Patricks days release over the past 12-15 years. The wrapper once dominated the cigar industry but it has become a novelty […]
According to Jon Huber, co-founder of Crowned Heads, “Mil Dias Maduro is an extension of the original Mil Dias that we announced back in July of 2020. What’s important to note, however, is the Maduro blend is not simple a re-tread of the original blend where we just swapper the wrapper leaf out. Mil Dias Maude is an all-new blend from the outside to the inside we self was worth of bearing the Mil Dias […]
3 Leaf Cigars is a partnership between Erik Wentworth who once worked for Hammer + Sickle cigars and James Ferriera, a fan of cigars with a nose for business. Will this partnership work? Will Erik Wentworth be able to take this company to higher heights then Hammer + Sickle which was from where I sit was more of a regional cigar brand. Time will tell, just like with any new company. Their first release is […]