Category: Cigar Reviews

La Aurora USA has introduced Cazadores Flavors, a new line extension featuring three blends from La Aurora’s value-priced Cazadores line. Cazadores Flavors comes in three options: Cazadores Brown, Cazadores Blond, and Cazadores Caribbean. Each flavored line features a wrapper that is currently found in the Cazadores line. Cazadores Brown is built on the same Indonesian Maduro wrapper, Indonesian binder, and Dominican (Cibao Valley) fillers as Cazadores Maduro. Cazadores Blond uses

Quality Importers Trading Company has announced price reductions across a large portion of its XIKAR cigar accessory lineup, with the new pricing going into effect today, September 1. The changes include 24 models of XIKAR lighters and cutters, the brand’s entire lineup of travel cases, and 16 humidification-related products. According to the company, prices are being reduced between 3 and 28 percent, with an average decrease of approximately 17 percent

Miami Cigar & Co. has begun shipping two new formats for its Outcast brand, adding cigarillo tins and humidified four-packs of Toro cigars to the lineup. Both formats were first shown at the 2026 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show in New Orleans and are now making their way to cigar retailers nationwide. The Outcast Tins contain 10 cigarillos measuring 4″ x 30 and are priced at $24.99 per

La Aurora is expanding its Cazadores portfolio with Cazadores Flavors, a new flavored offshoot that will launch with three blends: Brown, Blond and Caribbean. Rather than using a single base blend for all three cigars, La Aurora has paired each flavor with one of the existing Cazadores blends. Brown uses the Cazadores Maduro as its foundation, Blond is based on Cazadores Claro, and Caribbean starts with Cazadores Nicaragua. The original

For Prime Time Special Edition 195, we present our 2026 Cigar Company Power Rankings. Back on Prime Time Special Edition 129 in 2022, we introduced a concept  Cigar Company Power Rankings. Much like College Sports has a Top 25, and how we see many pro teams ranked, we will take that same concept and apply it to cigar companies. Tonight Bear and Coop select ten companies and attempt to determine

Forged Cigar Company has announced the 2026 edition of the Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Ghooligan. This is the third year the Filthy Ghooligan has been released. Alec Bradley Filthy Ghooligan is a seasonal Halloween release. The line was inspired by the Alec Bradley Filthy Hooligan, a seasonal release for over a decade that coincides with the St. Patrick’s Day Season. Initially introduced as a Candela, the Filthy Hooligan became a

Today, we are reviewing the Fuente Fuente OpusX 25 Aniversario in the El Tributo (Churchill) size. As the name indicates, this line celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Fuente Fuente OpusX brand. OpusX is not just a vital brand for Arturo Fuente; it also holds significant importance for its creator, Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr. In late 1995, Carlito introduced the Fuente Fuente OpusX, a revolutionary cigar that demonstrated to the

Alec Bradley is bringing back its Halloween-themed Black Market Filthy Ghooligan cigar, with the 2026 release scheduled to begin shipping to retailers in September. Filthy Ghooligan is an annual offshoot of the Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan, swapping that cigar’s green candela barber pole for a combination of Ecuadorian Habano and US Broadleaf wrappers. The blend uses seven different tobaccos in total, pairing the dual wrappers with an Indonesian

On this episode of Prime Time Jukebox, we pay homage to the life and music of Dolly Parton. Dolly passed away on August 25, 2026. If you have followed Prime Time Jukebox, Dolly has been the foundation of this show. She has been mentioned in just about every episode since we started the show. On this episode Dave smokes the Ashton Churchill while Coop smokes the Avowed Hallowed Hands Box