The AVO Syncro Nicaragua marks a stark change in AVO’s blending strategy. Up until now, AVO cigars tended to include exclusively Dominican tobaccos–this cigar includes a variety of origins: Ecuadorian, Dominican, Peruvian, and most importantly, Nicaraguan. Now, I’m a fan-boy of anything to come out of Nicaragua, and with AVO’s reputation for beautiful construction and…
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Everyone loves a good mystery. Except for cigar smokers. Brothers and sisters of the leaf want to know everything there is to know about the dried plant leaves that they’re about to smoke. Who blended these leaves? Where were these leaves rolled? Did the leaves’ mothers play Beethoven to them while they were in the…
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Let it be known: I’m a sucker for good marketing. And damn if AJ Fernandez didn’t catch my eye with the band of his newest release, the Enclave. The AJ Fernandez Enclave’s label features a Native American wearing a headdress and riding a horse–my guess would be that he’s a Sioux as most American Indians…
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A pleasant surprise arrived in my mailbox this past week: a gift box from JR Cigars–completely unsolicited but apparently as a result of my activity on Reddit’s Cigar sub-reddit. Included were 5 cigars including JR’s newest in-house blend, the JR Uncharted. So what? JR requested that I supply an unbiased review of the Uncharted (with…
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