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Romeo y Julieta Edición Limitada JR 50th Launching Next Week JR Cigar, one of the most popular cigar retailers in the world, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As is often the case with anniversaries in the cigar business, there will be a special cigar. The Romeo y Julieta Edición Limitada JR 50th is a 5 x 54 robusto extra made by JR’s sister company, Altadis U.S.A. It uses a Mexican criollo wrapper over a Connecticut broadleaf binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. It is being produced at Tabacalera de García in La Romana, the Dominican Republic. ....
Share Since 2004, Cigar Aficionado has selected its Top 25 Cigars, with one cigar claiming the top spot as the definitive Cigar of the Year. It isn’t easy to stand out in today’s premium cigar industry, with hundreds of well-crafted smokes from numerous countries that use tobacco in ways cigarmakers of yesteryear might not have envisioned. However, year after year, Cigar Aficionado’s expert panel of taste testers works its way through the lineup. In the end, the panel’s blind ratings analyze everything from shape and roll quality to flavor profile and draw, all of which combine to determine one winner. ....
Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Churchill Cigar Review On The Cigar Authority podcast we smoked the 1935 Anniversary the latest cigar from Altadis USA. Like many recent cigars from the company, this one is made by AJ Fernandez who seems to have his hands on every brand with a Cuban heritage. According to a press release from Altadis USA, ” The first Montecristo cigar was handcrafted in 1935 using a signature blend of tobaccos, which remains the standard by which the brand still lives up to today. Now, 85 years later, accomplishing a tribute of this magnitude required assembling a cast of some of the world’s leading tobacco experts. Working together, the famed Grupo de Maestros, Rafael Nodal and award-winning tobacco powerhouse AJ Fernandez have crafted the Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Nicaraguan. This precise and exquisite proprietary blend of aged tobaccos pays homage to the original tobaccos used in the first Montecristo cigar. The result is an exquisite blend of th ....
Share Share Bundle up, grab your lighter and pour a glass of your favorite spirit because winter is here. Whether you’re braving the snow, still lounging by the beach or anywhere in between, these superb smokes are here to heat up your winter months. We took the 17 best cigars from the September/October issue of Cigar Aficionado and recent issues of Cigar Insider. Each smoke on this list has scored at least 91 points in one of our blind taste tests, outstanding on our 100-point scale, making this an elite list of smokes. Let’s toast to the season and the New Year with these cigars, each of which is worthy of a celebration. Here’s to 2021 and happy holidays. ....
Share Photos/Altadis U.S.A. It seems every year in the cigar industry is a celebration of sorts, and 2020 is no different, as it marks 145 years of the Romeo y Julieta brand. Altadis U.S.A. is honoring the anniversary with a limited-edition, Nicaraguan Romeo called Romeo y Julieta Eternal. However, due to the star-crossed complications of this tumultuous year, it won’t be heading to stores until the 25th of January. Romeo y Julieta Eternal is a collaboration between the Plasencias and Rafael Nodal, head of product capability at Tabacalera USA. The cigars are a blend of Nicaraguan tobaccos grown by the Plasencia family on their farms in all the major growing regions of Nicaragua: Jalapa, Condega, Estelí and Ometepe. According to Nodal, the wrapper underwent twice the normal fermentation time and was aged for 26 months. ....