Cigar Reviews
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Perdomo Legacy Nicaraguan Shade-Grown Epicure Review
Verdict: Box Buy (4/4). Sweet cream, roasted cashew, and a baking spice retrohale that never turned harsh... I already own a box of these, and I'd pay full retail for the next one.
Dunbarton LecheBurra Cigars Daily Edition Toro Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4). Creamy, bready, and lightly sweet from the first draw to the nub, with flawless construction the whole way — my draw tool and my lighter sat lonely the entire time. At $19.45 a stick, the price and a profile that stays in roughly the same lane keep it ou
Foundation 10 Year Aniversario Salomon Review
Verdict: Box Buy (4/4)... a Mexican hot chocolate of a cigar that stays excellent start to finish, and that's rare. Thirty-five bucks is a lot of money for a cigar, and it still earns the tier. Chocolate, baking spice, peanut, leather, and a creaminess on the retro that coats you
Espinosa Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special 2024 Toro Review
Verdict: Not Even Free (1/4). It opens mild and a little chocolatey, then slides into leather, earth and pepper, turns bitter, and goes full strength, and that whole back end is the part of cigars I like least. I smoked as much of it as I wanted to and set it down right as it hit
Liga Privada T52 Corona Doble Review
Verdict: Hand-Me-One (2/4). A well-made, well-mannered medium-plus smoke with a mild, layered leather-coffee-nut profile that never puts a standout note on the table, and a back half where the ash went brittle and the smoke kept dying on me. At right around twenty bucks a stick t
La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Magnifico Review
Verdict: Not Even Free (1/4). Leather and earth start to finish, with the little bit of sweetness I needed showing up late in the first third, carrying into the second, and then leaving for good after a relight, wrapped around a snug draw and a burn that fought me the whole way.
Diesel Whiskey Row Toro Review
Verdict: Hand-Me-One (2/4). A pleasant nutty-bready-coffee smoke through two thirds that never found the sweetness I chase, then dipped into lingering bitterness and touch-up territory in the final third. Wouldn't buy it again, wouldn't turn one down — the middle stretch was a ge
Punch Reserve Collection Robusto Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4). A mild-plus, bready-sweet Robusto with a lingering baking-spice retrohale that quietly turns to black pepper — good enough that I wish I'd bought more, held back only by a burn that fought me the whole way. I've got one left and I'm glad. A solid five in
Room101 Johnny Tobacconaut 10th Anniversary (JT10) Toro Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4)... the flavor is box-worthy start to finish, but a burn that needed five touch-ups and constant attention has to cost something, and this is what it costs.
Padrón 1926 Serie 40th Anniversary Maduro Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4)... a genuinely great cigar that only two things keep off a box: the price, and a quick fall-off right at the end. This is an excellent cigar, layered and evolving the whole way, and it does a thing almost nothing else does: it rewards a single slow puff s
Foundation The Wise Man Corojo Toro Review
Verdict: Hand-Me-One (2/4)... a pleasant, mild tobacco-sweet smoke that never develops and made me work a lighter for it the whole way. The flavor is fine... light tobacco sweetness, some baking spice, a nutty stretch late... but it barely changes over the whole cigar, there's a
Tatuaje Tattoo Universo Review
Verdict: Not Even Free (1/4)... a well-built cigar aimed at a palate that isn't mine. Earth, leather, espresso and black pepper, and almost nothing else. The construction was fine: clean wrapper, an ash that stacked dimes and held a full third. The draw was too tight the whole wa
Padrón 2000 Series Maduro Robusto Review
Verdict: Hand-Me-One (2/4)... not bad, just boring, and Padrón pricing means boring never goes on sale. This is the review where I get to say something mildly heretical: I smoked a Padrón and mostly waited for it to be over. It's competently made, the flavors are fine, and it is
Foundation The Tabernacle Havana Seed CT No. 142 Toro Review
Verdict: Box Buy (4/4)... an easy, easy box buy, and the next order will be exactly that. Phenomenal start to finish, with more going on in it than I have the vocabulary for. It dips a little in the final third like almost everything does... and even in the dip it's still a pheno
Oliva Serie V Toro Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4). A sweet, nutty, medium cigar that punches way above its price tag... and asks for a lighter more than it should. At street this is a stick I want five of in the humidor at all times. It is not a box for me at $13, and it never got anywhere near the "full
My Father Le Bijou 1922 Torpedo Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4)... for this stick, on this night, and just barely over that line. I've smoked a bunch of these, I have a box in my humidor right now, and most nights this cigar smokes like a Box Buy... which is exactly why this site rates the cigar in my hand, not the re
Asylum 13 Corojo Robusto Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4)... a mild-to-medium creamy-bread smoke that flipped my "Asylum is a gimmick brand" assumption. My first Asylum ever, and it surprised me the whole way. Near-flawless construction, a self-correcting burn with zero touch-ups, and an ash that survived a 2-fo
My Father Flor de las Antillas Toro Review
Verdict: Hand-Me-One (2/4)... the flavor's there when you manage it, but the burn fought me start to finish. This one nearly landed a tier lower. Sweet nuttiness, almond, baking spice that turns to pepper, a manageable acrid edge... and when it's burning even, the smoke and flavo
The Filthy Viking Toro Review (American Viking Cigars)
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4)... with a standing exception you should know about: catch these 20-25% off by the box, which they run about quarterly, and it's a Box Buy without a second thought. Verdicts here get judged at street price, and at street this is a very good easy-smoking fi
Crux Guild Toro Review
Verdict: Five-Pack (3/4)... and the closest a cigar has come to the box without getting one. A five-pack lives in the humidor from here on. This is the most playable cigar I've smoked... the flavor changes depending on how you puff it, and it's not a subtle difference.
Perdomo Double Aged 12 Year Vintage Sun Grown Epicure Review
Verdict: Not Even Free (1/4). I put it down midway through the final third... I wouldn't take another one even for free. The bitterness just kept building until it ran the whole show. Which stings a little, because the Maduro from this exact same line was an easy Box Buy for me.
Perdomo Double Aged 12 Year Vintage Maduro Epicure Review
Verdict: Box Buy (4/4). I'd spend my own money on this again... no hesitation. Great smoke front to back, nothing off-putting, and enough going on to keep it interesting the whole way.
Davidoff Winston Churchill The Late Hour Toro Review
Verdict: Hand-Me-One (2/4)... and that's mostly about Davidoff money. Nothing offensive about it. That's kind of the problem. It's a one-dimensional, thin-smoking, burn-fussy cigar that never gave me a reason to buy another one at this price.
Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Belicoso Review
Verdict: Hand-Me-One (2/4). There's a genuinely good cigar in here... the first third was excellent... but a weird burnt-nut note, some bite on the sides of my tongue, and a torch that never got to stay in my pocket kept it from being a yes.