Sinistro Habana Vieja Corojo Soft Launching in January
Sinistro Cigars’ Habana Vieja line is getting a third varietal, with a soft launch currently scheduled for mid-January.
The Sinistro Habana Vieja Corojo uses a Dominican corojo wrapper, a Nicaraguan HVA binder that has been aged for 10 years, and a mix of Dominican and Nicaraguan tobacco in the filler. The line is made at the La Aurora Cigar Factory in the Dominican Republic.
It is being released in a 5 x 50 robusto vitola, though the company is exploring other sizes to include in the line’s eventual full launch. Coleman Fine of Sinistro Cigars told
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These ratings indicate a high level of quality throughout the cigar market, as 109 of the 267 cigars we rated (41 percent) scored 90 points or higher. And 66 cigars scored 91 points or higher, earning our accolade of Humidor Selection. Every major cigar-producing country contributed cigars to that list, though 30 of the cigars in this segment hail from Nicaragua. Currently, Nicaragua exports more premium cigars to the U.S. than any other country, and its proliferation of high ratings speaks to both the high quality of tobacco on the agricultural end as well as meticulous cigar production on the industrial side.
If you’re looking for a 90 pointer, you’re more likely to find it from Cuba than any other country. We rated 24 Cuban cigars this year, and 16 of them (66.7 percent) scored 90 points or higher, a larger percentage of 90s than any other major cigar-producing country. (Though 80 percent of the Mexican cigars rated this year scored more than 90 points, we only tested f
JetBlue Airways today announced it will introduce service in four all-new destinations as part of a broader plan to add 24 new nonstop routes in the first half of 2021. Between February and June, JetBlue will touch down for the first time in Miami; Key West, Fla.; Guatemala City; and Los Cabos, Mexico. Nine of the 24 routes will serve the four new destinations from JetBlue focus cities, with the remaining 15 markets linking existing JetBlue cities with new nonstop service. All the routes are aimed at immediately generating cash revenue and capturing traffic where the airline anticipates customer demand. Seats on new flights are on sale starting today.
Eduardo Halfon Takes Questions (and Comments) From a
Group of Throwaways
December 16, 2020
People call them Throwaways because they’re good for nothing. I met them on my last afternoon in Bogotá, in an industrial zone called Puente Aranda, under an airy, almost invisible drizzle that wasn’t enough to get anything wet.
I had been in Bogotá for a week, counting the days until I could go home to Nebraska, where my son was about to be born, and taking part in so many library and bookstore events that they were starting to blend into one. The same audience. The same topics. The same questions. And not only the same questions, but my same answers. Mechanical, worn-out answers I’d polished and practiced until I knew perfectly well which one would spark a laugh, or empathy, or silence. Over the years a writer develops a spiel that doesn’t just prop up his work but also his whole reason for being a writer. He perfects the foundational myth (how he started writing: by accide
Release Date: November 2020
Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3
Covered in a gorgeous milk chocolate brown wrapper that has quite a bit of tooth, the CAO Vision features numerous veins running up and down its length. There is very little noticeable oil present and one sample has a small soft spot located halfway between the main band and foot band. The aroma from the wrapper and foot is a combination of sweet cedar, cocoa nibs, leather, barnyard, hay, earth and graham cracker sweetness, while the cold draw is full of cocoa nibs, cedar, sourdough bread, cinnamon, espresso beans, hay and indeterminate sweetness.