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Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Umbagog
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Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Umbagog
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Cigar Review

Umbagog is the line Saka built as the most affordable regular offering in DTT’s portfolio. He named it after Umbagog Lake, his favorite fishing water on the border of New Hampshire and Maine.

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Illusione Epernay Le Elegance Petit Lancero
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Cigar Review
Illusione Epernay Le Elegance Petit Lancero
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Cigar Review

Named for the Champagne town of Ɖpernay in France, it was conceived as a more elegant, slightly milder counterpart to the original Illusione blend. It uses Nicaraguan Corojo and Criollo tobaccos with no ligero, finished in a CafĆ© Rosado wrapper, and produced at RaĆ­ces Cubanas in Honduras.

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Cigar Review
La Aroma De Cuba Mi Amor
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Cigar Review
La Aroma De Cuba Mi Amor
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Cigar Review

La Aroma de Cuba started as a Cuban brand in the late 1880s and is tied to Winston Churchill, who first encountered it in 1895. The Levin family of Ashton revived it in 2002 as a Honduran cigar, then moved production to EstelĆ­, Nicaragua in 2009, where PepĆ­n GarcĆ­a and his family make it at My Father Cigars.

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Undercrown Maduro Toro
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Cigar Review
Undercrown Maduro Toro
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Cigar Review

Undercrown Maduro is Drew Estate’s factory floor original, the blend that started as a house smoke at La Gran FĆ”brica in EstelĆ­ and became the first regular production line in the Undercrown family.

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Joya De Nicaragua Joya Silver
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Cigar Review
Joya De Nicaragua Joya Silver
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Cigar Review

Joya Silver was added in 2018 during the brand’s 50th anniversary year, using an Ecuadorian oscuro wrapper over a Mexican binder and Nicaraguan fillers, in four box-pressed sizes.

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Blackbird Cigar Co.   Cactus Wren
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Blackbird Cigar Co. Cactus Wren
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Cigar Review

Cactus Wren is a limited short-run release rather than a core line. It began as a collaboration between Jonas Santana and Tim Swanson of Cigars Daily, named for Arizona’s state bird and first offered through that Arizona-based platform.

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Principle Martinique Corona
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Cigar Review
Principle Martinique Corona
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Cigar Review

Principle Cigars is Darren Cioffi’s boutique line: antique labels, short runs, and a long partnership with Hendrik Kelner Jr. at Kelner Boutique Factory in Santiago. Martinique is the house Connecticut—Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper, Dominican Monte Plata binder, Dominican and U.S. filler—built for creaminess with more flavor than that wrapper usually promises.

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Zino Honduras Half Corona
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Cigar Review
Zino Honduras Half Corona
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Cigar Review

Zino Honduras, released in June 2026, is the next chapter in that modern lineup. It is framed as a return to the brand’s Honduran roots and a slightly more intense counterpart to Nicaragua.

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Crux Bull & Bear
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Cigar Review
Crux Bull & Bear
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Cigar Review

Bull & Bear was one of the company’s first five blends and has stayed in the lineup since that debut. It’s a Nicaraguan puro, made at Plasencia Cigars S.A.

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Diamond Crown Maduro
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Cigar Review
Diamond Crown Maduro
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Cigar Review

Diamond Crown belongs to J.C. Newman Cigar Company, Tampa’s oldest premium cigar maker. The modern line was created in 1995 for the company’s 100th anniversary, when Stanford Newman asked Carlos Fuente Sr. to help build an ultra premium cigar with no regard for cost or time.

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Tatuaje Black Label Petite Corona
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Cigar Review
Tatuaje Black Label Petite Corona
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Cigar Review

Black Label started in 2007 as Johnson’s private reserve and later became a regular-production Nicaraguan puro: sun-grown Criollo wrapper from EstelĆ­ over Nicaraguan binder and filler.

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HVC Hot Cake Maduro Half Corona
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Cigar Review
HVC Hot Cake Maduro Half Corona
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Cigar Review

HVC Cigars, founded by Reinier Lorenzo, produces its cigars in Estelƭ, Nicaragua, at FƔbrica de Tabacos HVC S.A. Hot Cake was introduced in 2020 as a regular production line after the limited Pan Caliente release.

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Warped La Colmena Amado No. 44
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Cigar Review
Warped La Colmena Amado No. 44
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Cigar Review

In the small Miami factory of El Titan de Bronze, Warped Cigars found the home for its most Cuban minded work. La Colmena, Spanish for The Beehive, is the flagship line.

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West Tampa Tobacco White Toro
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Cigar Review
West Tampa Tobacco White Toro
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Cigar Review

West Tampa Tobacco Co. launched in 2022 under Rick Rodriguez, former CAO blender, and Gus Martinez. The name honors West Tampa, where Rick’s Cuban grandparents settled as rollers in the 1950s after leaving Havana. White was one of two debut regular production lines, shipping in June 2022 from Garmendia Cigar Co.

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Cigar Review
Oz Family Maracana Robusto
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Cigar Review
Oz Family Maracana Robusto
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Cigar Review

Maracana is Tim Ozgener going back to Brazilian wrapped cigars under Oz Family Cigars, named for Rio’s Maracana Stadium.

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Cigar Review
Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Presidente
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Cigar Review
Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Presidente
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Cigar Review

The Presidente is the 6½ Ɨ 50 size. Early Don Carlos production was limited to a couple of vitolas. The Presidente released around 1997, when the line grew into a full size range. It remains a regular production cigar from Tabacalera A. Fuente.

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Cigar Review
Plasencia Reserva Original
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Cigar Review
Plasencia Reserva Original
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Cigar Review

A Nicaraguan puro made entirely from OCIA-certified organic leaf grown on family farms in EstelĆ­ and Jalapa and aged five years after fermentation. The Corona (6¼ Ɨ 44) was one of the original vitolas released with the line at the 2017 IPCPR show.

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Caldwell Long Live The King Bar-None
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Cigar Review
Caldwell Long Live The King Bar-None
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Cigar Review

In 2023 Caldwell released Long Live The King BAR NONE as a limited edition extension of the core line. This version is a Dominican puro that uses Cuban seed tobacco for both the wrapper and binder.

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Cigar Review
Perdomo Legacy Father & Son Connecticut
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Cigar Review
Perdomo Legacy Father & Son Connecticut
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Cigar Review

The Perdomo Legacy line was created by Nicholas Perdomo III as a tribute to his father. Father & Son is a limited extension of that line and a collaboration between Nick Perdomo Jr. and Nicholas Perdomo III.

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Aganorsa Leaf Rare Leaf Corojo
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Cigar Review
Aganorsa Leaf Rare Leaf Corojo
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Cigar Review

The Rare Leaf Reserve line uses specially selected tobacco lots from Aganorsa’s best farms. It is a Nicaraguan puro featuring a Jalapa Corojo wrapper, dual Criollo 98 binders, and a filler blend of Criollo 98 and Corojo 99.

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601 Maduro Box Press Prominente
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Cigar Review
601 Maduro Box Press Prominente
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Cigar Review

The Maduro Box Press (Blue Label) is the box-pressed maduro version of the 601 line, using a maduro wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and fillers. The Prominente measures 5½ Ɨ 56. The Toro from this line ranked No. 6 on Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25 Cigars of 2009.

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Warped Corto Maduro
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Cigar Review
Warped Corto Maduro
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Cigar Review

The Corto line first appeared in 2015 as one of Warped’s earlier fuller bodied offerings; an all Nicaraguan blend originally wrapped in Corojo and designed as a compact, flavorful short smoke.

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Oliva Serie V Double Robusto
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Cigar Review
Oliva Serie V Double Robusto
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Cigar Review

Produced at Tabacalera Oliva de Nicaragua in EstelĆ­, the original blend features an Ecuadorian Habano sun-grown wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and fillers that include ligero from the Jalapa Valley.

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Aj Fernandez New World Oscuro Redondo
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Cigar Review
Aj Fernandez New World Oscuro Redondo
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Cigar Review

In 2014 AJ Fernandez introduced the New World line together with his father Ismael Fernandez. The series draws its name from the historic discovery of tobacco in the Americas.

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Adventura The Chancellor
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Cigar Review
Adventura The Chancellor
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Cigar Review

The Chancellor joins the Royal Return series as a limited edition release created in collaboration with longtime ADVentura ā€œright hand manā€ Adrian Acosta under the brand’s Elite Broker Program

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Cigar Review
Gellis Family Marevas
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Cigar Review
Gellis Family Marevas
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Cigar Review

Warped Gellis Family Marevas is the inaugural release from Gellis Family Cigars, the personal brand launched by Kyle Gellis, founder of Warped Cigars.

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Cigar Review
Johnny Tobacconaut Maduro Gordo
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Cigar Review
Johnny Tobacconaut Maduro Gordo
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Cigar Review

The Johnny Tobacconaut series first launched in 2015 as a playful space-themed line inspired by a fictional astronaut who travels the galaxy in search of exceptional tobacco.

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Cigar Review
Ashton VSG Sorcerer
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Cigar Review
Ashton VSG Sorcerer
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Cigar Review

The Ashton Virgin Sun Grown first reached the market in 1999 as a full strength offering from Ashton and the Fuente family. The name points to its signature Ecuadorian sun grown Sumatra seed wrapper, grown under natural cloud cover and fermented to a dark oily finish.

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Cigar Review
My Father Le Bijou 1922 100 AƱos LE
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Cigar Review
My Father Le Bijou 1922 100 AƱos LE
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Cigar Review

First issued in 2022 and now returning every two years, it is restricted to just 1,922 boxes of 22 cigars in each of two sizes.The regular Le Bijou 1922 line was already PepĆ­n’s personal tribute to his father, the ā€œjewelā€ of the family.

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Espinosa Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special 2026
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Cigar Review
Espinosa Knuckle Sandwich Chef Special 2026
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Cigar Review

The Chef Special series delivers a new limited edition each year, and the 2026 version arrives with a rich brown wrapper, bold band artwork, and a distinctive purple foot.

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