It’s not Warped. Or maybe it is. For the last year, Kyle Gellis—best known as the founder of Warped—has been teasing cigars made under the Jason~Dumont. It actually started with a wine label, which led me to believe that this was a cigar being made for a winery. As it turns out, that’s very much […]

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Abe Flores has reblended and redesigned the PDR 1878 line, and has given it a new name: the PDR 1878 Recordando a Santiago. The name translates to “remembering Santiago,” the city in the Dominican Republic where PDR Cigars is headquartered, along with a number of other cigar factories and tobacco farms. View this post on […]

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Next week, the Davidoff White Edition 2012 will return as part of Davidoff’s Vault program. The 5 3/4 x 52 robusto extra was originally released in 2012 as part of Davidoff’s annual limited edition series. It’s a Dominican puro that uses a piloto seco binder over five different fillers: hybrid 254 viso, piloto ligero, San […]

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Viaje has seemingly always been a company that preferred to maintain some mystery about its cigars, though some releases send to get more secrecy than others. Which makes it seem perfectly obvious that the company would add the word mystery—or rather, M?stery—to one it lines, the Skull and Bones. The Viaje Skull and Bones line […]

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The 2020 version of the La Palina Goldie is arriving in stores. It’s the ninth Goldie release since 2012, though the cigar is known as the Goldie No. 6. It measures 6 1/2 x 56, the thickest vitola in the line to date, and uses the same blend as past releases. That means an Ecuadorian […]

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