Cigar Reviews

Named after France's Champagne capital, the Epernay is the thinking person's cigar—refined, elegant, and subtly complex in a world that mistakes volume for value. This is the antidote to bigger-is-better.

Released twice a year and selling out almost instantly, the Supreme Leaf is Aganorsa's showcase blend—and the FOMO is completely justified. This is Nicaraguan terroir at its absolute finest.

All tobacco from a single farm plot, aged five years, and priced at $8. If that sounds too good to be true, welcome to the Perdomo Lot 23 Maduro—the cigar that makes the entire industry look overpriced.

The family that grows more tobacco than anyone in Central America finally launched their own brand—and the Alma Fuerte proves they can make cigars every bit as well as they grow tobacco.

Named after Columbus's discovery of tobacco, the New World is AJ Fernandez's love letter to bold Nicaraguan puros—and at $7, it's the most generous love letter you'll ever receive.

Blended by Carlos Fuente Jr. for the Ashton brand, the VSG is a full-bodied Dominican that has been quietly embarrassing flashier cigars for twenty-five years. The cognoscenti know.

Cigar Aficionado's #1 Best Value Cigar has no business tasting this good at this price. Foundation's Charter Oak Habano is the cigar equivalent of finding a Michelin-star meal at a diner.

Cigar Aficionado's #1 Cigar of 2025. At $75 per stick, it forces the ultimate question: is any single cigar worth that much? After smoking ours, we have a very clear answer.

Connecticut cigars have a reputation problem—too mild, too boring, too forgettable. Drew Estate's Undercrown Shade dismantles every one of those assumptions with creamy, nuanced elegance.

Pete Johnson's former private reserve blend in a slim lancero format that concentrates flavor like nothing else. This is the cigar that converts lancero skeptics into lancero evangelists.

The torpedo that defined the format. Created in 1935, the Montecristo No. 2 remains one of the most iconic cigars ever made—when you get a good one, nothing else quite compares.

The world's most beloved short smoke has been converting non-smokers and delighting veterans for over thirty years. The Cameroon wrapper is the secret weapon, and the perfecto shape is the delivery system.

Bold claim? Perhaps. But when a cigar achieves near-universal adoration across every corner of the enthusiast world, at some point you stop hedging and simply acknowledge greatness.

Cigar Aficionado's 2012 Cigar of the Year at under $10 a stick. Flor de las Antillas is the gateway cigar that never gets old, the everyman's smoke that punches absurdly above its weight.

Is the Cohiba Robusto the greatest cigar ever made, or the most overhyped? After fighting through counterfeits, inconsistency, and eye-watering prices, we finally have our answer.

Named after patriarch Melanio Oliva, this figurado represents four generations of tobacco expertise distilled into a single, flawless cigar. The construction alone deserves a standing ovation.

Born as Drew Estate's private blend for factory workers, Liga Privada No. 9 became an accidental legend—the ninth attempt at perfection that finally got everything right.

Full-bodied, relentlessly complex, and built with the craftsmanship of a family that has been rolling cigars since before most of us were born. Le Bijou 1922 is the Garcia family at their most uncompromising.

They said it couldn't be done—a full-bodied, sun-grown wrapper cigar from the Dominican Republic. Carlos Fuente Jr. didn't listen, and the result changed cigar history forever.

There are cigars you smoke, and cigars that change the way you think about smoking. The Padron 1964 Anniversary is emphatically the latter—a Nicaraguan puro so perfectly balanced it borders on unfair.