Cohiba

The Cohiba Spectre features eight varietals of tobacco from five countries.

A curated selection of the top big-brand and boutique cigars to smoke or collect now…

The chef’s Harvest Inn resort will host a three-day festivity to honor the legendary Cuban cigars…

In 2014, Cohiba unveiled a new limited-edition cigar, the Dominican-made Cohiba Luxury Selection, which earlier this year was named Robb Report’s Best of the Best cigar. Now the manufacturer has released a new iteration of that cigar—the Cohiba Luxury Selection No. 2 (cohiba.com), which is available as a 6 × 52 toro. Like the double […]

Contrary to popular opinion, not all Havanas are stellar stogies. Here is how to make the most of the relaxed new rules.

Ashton Symmetry This medium-strong to full-bodied cigar is the first new Ashton release in a decade and the brand’s first to contain Nicaraguan filler tobaccos. Blended by Carlos Fuente Jr., the Symmetry combines tobaccos from Chateau de la Fuente and Villa Gonzalez in the Dominican Republic and Fuente’s Un Buen Vecino farm in Nicaragua. It […]

Much like the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, the market for top-quality cigars this holiday season is defined by three themes: the past, the present, and the future. Through the handiwork of such brands as Avo, Arturo Fuente, L’Atelier, and Cubano Limitado, smokers are once again enjoying thin and elegant lanceros, a classic cigar […]

Convivial Pursuit The art of winemaking is not unlike that of matchmaking: Success in either endeavor requires a keen understanding of relationships, as Doug Shafer, president of Shafer Vineyards, well knows. In 1984, after becoming the winemaker at his father’s estate in the Stags Leap District, Shafer made the propitious decision to hire Elias Fernandez […]

BLACK DIAMOND Made for the J.C. Newman Cigar Company by its partner Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia., Diamond Crown has always been known for its Connecticut shade wrapper and trademark 54-ring gauge in a variety of lengths. The best Connecticut broadleaf is deeply fermented, resulting in the dark, oily wrapper of the relaunched Black Diamond, […]