Cigar Brand Highlights

If you’ve spent any time exploring boutique cigars, you’ve probably come across Black Label Trading Co. Cigars. This isn’t a brand that's necessarily trying to appeal to everyone; these cigars are built for smokers who want bold flavors, small batch production,...

Montecristo cigars are about as recognizable as a cigar name gets, built on consistency, balance, and a reach that covers just about every kind of smoker. New to premium cigars or twenty years deep, you have a reason the brand...

Aganorsa Leaf is best understood as a tobacco company that happens to make cigars, not the other way around. That distinction is what separates it from most cigar brands in the premium cigar space, and it explains why the company...

Camacho Cigars is a strength-forward cigar brand founded in Miami in 1961 by Cuban cigar maker Simón Camacho and made today at the Rancho Jamastran factory in Danlí, Honduras. It built its name on Honduran Corojo and Criollo tobacco, pepper-heavy...

Arturo Fuente cigars come from a family business that started in Ybor City, Florida, in 1912 and now grows its own tobacco at Chateau de la Fuente in the Dominican Republic. The core lines are Chateau Fuente, the Gran Reserva...

Ashton Cigars is a premium brand launched in 1985 by Philadelphia tobacconist Robert Levin and made in the Dominican Republic by the Fuente family, known for rock-solid construction and refined, balanced flavor across lines like the Classic, Cabinet, Aged Maduro,...

If you’ve been around premium cigars for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard the name San Cristobal. It’s one of those brands that comes up when people start talking about “safe bets”, cigars that consistently deliver flavor, balance, and a...

Rocky Patel built his cigar empire from scratch; nobody handed it to him. A passion project he picked up in the 1990s grew into one of the most recognizable names in premium cigars. Vintage 1990, the Decade, The Edge, whatever...

E.P. Carrillo is the cigar brand of Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, a Cuban-born master cigar maker whose family fled to Miami in 1959 and rebuilt its cigar business there. Today the cigars are handcrafted at Tabacalera La Alianza in the Dominican Republic....