Monthly Archives: July 2021

Elie Bleu is one of the worlds most renowned luxury producers of humidors, jewelry boxes and other wood accessories, cigar lighters and other smoking accessories. Elie Bleu combines the worlds most exotic woods with the worlds finest craftsmanship to create truly one of a kind and unique products.Each piece takes more than 6 months of meticulous craftsmanship until the company is satisfied with the product.This period includes tedious planning, adjusting, sanding, varnishing, polishing, lining... Innovating; while continually, working with essence of the rare wood. Elie Bleu has certainly raised the bar for all of these steps with its latest cabinet release. Elie Bleu has handcrafted one of the most rare, unique, and eye catching cabinets to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Arturo Fuentes Opus X cigars. The wood used is red gum and the cabinet is adorned with marquetry and bronze accents. The cabinet includes 144 of the new Opus X 25th Anniversary cigars and comes in with a price tag

The Davidoff Royal Release is arguably the most meticulously and well crafted cigars to ever have been produced. From seed to cigar Davidoff to assure that the smoking experience is fitting of royalty.The journey from seed to cigar takes 10 an astonishing amount of time 10 years. Harvested separately from all the other crops, with curing taking place in the Royal Barn. A barn built with the sole purpose of curing tobacco for the Royal Release. The Tobacco is rigorously inspected with only the best bales selected to be aged for 8 additional years. Today's Royal Release cigars were born all the way back in the 2005/2005 crop. Only the finest rollers employed by Davidoff are allowed to roll these masterpieces. These 8 master rollers have between them, rolled over 7 million cigars; with each having at least 15 years experience. And with that a quality control regime that saw them adhering to over 170 steps throughout the process, they each have had a hand in creating an utterly unique experience.

Tatuaje has been on fire this summer releasing some extremely rare, unique and down right tasty cigars; including the New Escasos luxury sizes and a blast from the past in the form of the Fausto Old Man and the C. Now into July they are keeping things rolling with the release of the T110 in both Broadleaf and Sumatra. Tatuaje founder Pete Johnson nicknamed it “Thermonuclear.” Its official name hints at this moniker. The “T” in the T110 stands for thermonuclear, and the “110” refers to its length in millimeters. The T110 was originally released as a store exclusive way back in 2009 featuring a Habano wrapper.The two new variants swap out the Ecuadorian habano wrapper of the original cigar for either a Connecticut broadleaf or Ecuadorian Sumatra leaf, both of which Johnson uses elsewhere in his portfolio of cigars. The cigars are all short robustos that measure 4 3/8 x 52, and use the same Nicaraguan binder and filler across the three variations.These full bodied beauties will be extremel

EPC as a brand was created way back in the year 2010. At that time one of their core lines was the “Short Run”. The idea behind the short run was to utilize scarce and unique tobaccos that were not plentiful enough to produce a regular line. Today this is common practice in the industry. The last time Perez-Carillo produced a short run was in 2016. Now in 2021 the short run is back; utilizing the original band from 2010. As a result you will see “Retro” stamped on each box. The Short Run blend, by its design, changes each year, so don’t expect the 2021 release to taste like releases from the past.The 2021 Short Run Retro is made with an Ecuador Habano wrapper, binder from Nicaragua and a mix of Dominican and Nicaraguan filler. The first production will include three sizes. A Short Play (5 x 50), Extended Play (6 x 52), Long Play (6 x 60). The first production will be extremely limited to only 40,000 and 150 retailers.

Tatuaje is adding some luxury to its already popular Escasos line in the form of four new sizes.The word Escasos translates to scarce or rare from Spanish—and as its meaning suggests, is made up of extremely limited cigars rolled at the El Rey de Los Habanos factory located in Miami. Rumors of these new sizes have been swirling around the industry since early 2013. The four “luxury” sizes include Tatuaje Petite Église (5 x 50), Tatuaje Clos L’Église (5 x 52), Tatuaje Gran Cazador (8 x 52), Tatuaje Gran Tatuaje (9 x 55). These cigars are without question the highest end and most meticulously crafted cigars Pete Johnson has ever released. Johnson has stated that only a handful of select rollers are allowed to roll these cigars. With only one roller producing the Gran Tatuaje vitola. All of these rollers have been rolling tatuaje cigars since the brand's inception. Visually the cigars are beautiful and come in individual coffins. To say we can't wait to smoke some of these cigars would be