2012 Year in Review Part IV – Eddie Ortega on Serie-D

Continuing with our 2012 Year in Review, we once again reach back in to the video archives. This time, we meet with the man responsible for bringing Mexican San Andres wrapper to the forefront, Mr. Eddie Ortega. For those who remember, it was the Murcielago (Spanish for Bat) that got the whole Mexican San Andres wrapper craze started. We were able to catch up with Ortega at IPCPR back in August. Here’s what he had to say about the all-new Serie-D…

2012 Top 10 Cigars – Best of the Best

Now that our Top 10 lists for the best Light, Medium and Full strength cigars has been compiled and published – we continued crunching the numbers to come up with an “Over-All” Top 10 list of the Best Cigars for 2012.

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2012 Top Cigars – Best Core Lines

Now that our Top 10 lists for the best Light, Medium and Full strength cigars has been compiled and published. We thought it would be fun to slice-and-dice our information a couple of different ways. As many of you know, limited edition cigars are quite often very hard to come by. That being said, I think most would agree the back-bone bread and butter offerings in the cigar industry are the “core lines.” That being said, we went back and crunched the numbers against all 3 of our lists (light, medium and full) to come up with a “Best of the Core Lines” ranking. Those findings are included in the Top-10 list below – enjoy! Continue reading

2012 Top 10 Medium Cigars

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Welcome to Leaf and Grape’s first annual list for Top 10 Medium Cigars.  We decided to do take a different approach with our “Best Of” lists.  Instead of publishing one over-all list, we have 3 separate categories based on strength. … Continue reading