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Luciano Cigars has turned to Plasencia Cigars and its Tobacos de Oriente factory in Honduras for its latest release. | Cigar Aficionado

Plasencia Cigars is releasing a limited-edition cigar in anticipation of this year’s FIFA World Cup called Ehtëfal. | Cigar Aficionado

The handmade cigar industry gathered in Las Vegas this week at the PCA trade show to exhibit upcoming products and we've put together a list of the standout cigars and trade show highlights that caught our attention. | Cigar Aficionado

The newest buzzword in the cigar-blending world is medio tiempo: a high-primed leaf that packs a big punch. Despite being a darling to some makers, its enigmatic qualities (even its name is a mystery) has others claiming it doesn’t exist. | Cigar Aficionado

Called Espada by Montecristo Signature, the upcoming brand is billed as medium bodied and made entirely from Nicaraguan tobacco. | Cigar Aficionado

Release Date: February 2021 Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 From a visual perspective, the Plasencia Year of the Ox is an imposing sight, with its large size, bulbous foot and a golden brown wrapper that seems to glow in open shade. The wrapper is parchment rough to the touch and features a number of prominent veins, while one sample has a huge soft spot—more of a crater really—just under the secondary band. Aroma from the wrapper and foot is a combination of sweet cedar, earth, barny...

Hurricanes and Rainy Weather Have Pushed the Final Harvest to Next Month Share A field of tobacco on one of Plasencia’s farms in Jalapa, Nicaragua. The lush tobacco fields of Nicaragua would normally be bare this time of year, all the bounty of the harvest hanging in curing barns or baled for aging. This year is different. Because of back-to-back hurricanes that hit Nicaragua in November and disrupted early plantings, the season is extending an extra month, to mid-June. “We had a terrib...

May 11, 2021