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Last year was certainly an unlucky one, but maybe the luck of the Irish can help turn things around. In time for Saint Patrick’s Day, Alec Bradley has brought back its annual Black Market Filthy Hooligan and Shamrock holiday releases. The two seasonal smokes are shipping to retailers today.
Based on Alec Bradley’s Black Market blend, the Filthy Hooligan and Shamrock are presented in barber-pole fashion, meaning that the cigars are wrapped in multiple cover leaves of different colors to create a contrasting pattern that resembles a traditional barber pole.
The Filthy Hooligan ($10.50) comes in a bright green candela cover leaf against a darker Nicaraguan wrapper from the Jalapa Valley. The Shamrock ($12.50) is rolled in three wrapper leaves: green candela, dark Nicaraguan Habano maduro and a lighter shade of natural Nicaraguan Habano tobacco.
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Cigar Aficionado we like to enjoy the big game with big cigars. Here are 11 top-rated “A”s, double coronas and Churchills that are sure to impress. Light one up at kickoff and you’re likely to make it until halftime with a great smoke.
(94 points): The “A” size was born in Cuba, and traditionally it has been the longest size in a brand. No matter the country, today they are made in small quantities, for few people have the time to smoke one and it’s hard to find quality wrapper leaf large enough to cover these nine-inch-plus smokes. This one from the Fuente Fuente OpusX brand is 9 1/4 inches long with a 47 ring gauge. It’s amazingly complex, rich and delicious with layers of baking spices, coconut and wood a Dominican cigar through and through.
Release Date: December 2020
Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3
Visually, the Alec & Bradley Kintsugi Corona Gorda is covered in a dark brown wrapper that has a bit of tooth, but very few overt veins or signs of oil. On this particular vitola the two bands take up more than half of the available real estate of the cigar and it is nicely spongy when squeezed. Aroma from the wrapper is a combination of sweet hay, milk chocolate, sweet cedar, manure, leather, barnyard, earth and honey, while the cold draw brings flavors of strong floral and dark chocolate, along with espresso beans, hay, leather, bread, white pepper, cedar and a distinct candied pecan sweetness.
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In what is perhaps the most elaborate “greatest hits” package that Alec Bradley has ever compiled, the Ten Year Anniversary Fine & Rare Set is making its way to retailers this week. To make such a box set possible, brand owner Alan Rubin went into his inventory archives and selected a series of aged cigars from the Fine & Rare brand, some of which, he says, date back to 2014.
According to Rubin, the logistical complications arising from Covid-19, as well as subsequent hurricanes in Central America delayed the release, but first shipments are now heading to cigar shops.