Next up was a visit to General Cigar. Across the spectrum of it’s brands, General Cigar seemed to have something new to offer all around. All new holiday gift sets will be offered at Christmas time featuring special holiday stockings with brand logos loaded with cigars ready to be hung by the chimney. Foundry Cigar […]
A visit to the La Flor Dominicana showed us LFD has a new cigar, a fancier looking solomones and a line extension of sorts. La Nox is the newest Limited Edition LFD cigar blended by Tony Gomez. La Nox uses a Brazilian wrapper with a San Andreas Binder and Dominican filler tobaccos from LFD’s La […]
On day two of the show we were surprised to see so many “Sold Out” signs on products in the Altadis booth. Part of this was due to the number of limited production cigars being released, but there were also a few new regular production items on display as well. Here are a few highlights […]
It’s never hard to find the Drew Estate booth, it’s usually the one emanating hip-hop music and has a large crowd of people walking around. This year, the two story booth was even easier to find with it’s convenient location right as you walked in to the convention center. The Drew Estate booth had plenty […]
Next up we headed over to the Rocky Patel booth. Every hour or so a jam session broke out featuring Latin rhythms from bongos and drum boxes that also doubled as humidors and ashtray stands. But it was some great new cigars that caught our attention! Cigar smokers can expect three new releases from Rocky […]
Our second stop of the day brought us to the Alec Bradley booth. It was 11AM on the first day and there was a good crowd in the booth. More than the fact they were serving coffee, there were a lot of new products on display. Here are a few highlights of what we saw […]
Davidoff Escurio Robusto Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano Binder: Brazilian Filler: Dominican (San Vicente, Piloto and Olor/Piloto Seco), Brazilian (Cubra and Mata Fina) Prelight: One of the many reasons that people smoke Davidoff is their vigorous strive to have the best quality and most consistent cigar. With the first look at the Escurio, one can tell it […]
Davidoff’s latest release, Escurio, has shipped to retailers and is expected to arrive in stores between the 24th and 29th of July. This is the second release of the “black label” band following up the highly acclaimed Davidoff Nicaragua. Having smoked a sample of the Escurio Robusto, I expect it to receive a similar praise […]
