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Release Date: Dec. 2020 Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 The Fratello Pennsylvania wears a very dark wrapper, a rich and earthy shade of brown that has me thinking of the soil in a well-tended garden. Between the three samples there is the occasional big vein—one of which caught my attention enough to warrant taking a picture of it—but otherwise the rest are fairly normal. There is some slight texture to the leaf, as well as a bit of oiliness. It’s rolled to a fairly firm density, and visually it looks pretty good, though as noted above that one large vein creates a bit of a distr...

Release Date: Nov. 14, 2020 Number of Cigars Released: 1,000 Boxes of 20 Cigars (20,000 Total Cigars) Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 I smoke far fewer lanceros these days than I used to, but it’s still pretty clear that this isn’t a proper lancero. It’s close to a lancero—and certainly not a Churchill—but I feel some sort of obligation to point out that 42 ring gauge is not a lancero, but rather a Lonsdale, though this is on the longer end of that designation. One cigar has a cracked foot, but otherwise the cigars look fairly appetizing, or as appetizing as a cigar can be giv...

Release Date: Dec. 19, 2020 Number of Cigars Released: Regular Production Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 Visually, the Southern Draw Manzanita is covered in a reddish mocha brown wrapper that exhibits not only plenty of oil, but also a number of protruding veins. In addition, the cigar is slick smooth to the touch and extremely firm when squeezed. The aroma from the dark wrapper is a combination of strong cedar, raisins, leather, sweet manure, earth, barnyard and hay, while the cold draw brings flavors creamy cedar, bourbon, earth, raisin sweetness, dark chocolate, generic nuts and a s...

Release Date: December 2020 Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 A very attractive milk chocolate brown wrapper covers the VegaFina Year of the Ox, which also happens to be fairly smooth to the touch and features a noticeable amount of oil. There are a few overtly obvious veins present and the cigar is firm when squeezed. Aroma from the wrapper is a combination of strong barnyard, almonds, earth, leather, hay and raisins while the cold draw brings flavors of peanut shells, earth, leather, creamy oak, pepper and massive raisin sweetness. Starting out, the first third of the VegaFina presents...

Release Date: December 2020 Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3 While the triple cap is nicely applied, this isn’t the prettiest looking shade-grown wrapper I’ve ever seen. Two of my samples also have noticeable water spots—the green discoloration you can see in the picture below. It lacks the golden hue that you’ll see a lot on the Ecuadorian-grown versions and instead has more of a mustard color that I associate with the leaves grown in Connecticut. The aroma from the wrapper—which is from Ecuador—is shockingly sweet and smells like rotten apple juice, barnyard and some red gr...