Top 5 Top Cigars from Cigar Aficionado

March 2, 2022

 

We’re three months into the new year and by this time all the Top Cigar lists from across the industry have released their “year-end” list. One list everyone seems to follow so intently is the list from Cigar Aficionado.

If you’re a manufacturer and your cigar lands on Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25 list, you’re in some pretty elite company. We’ve done this type of Top 5 in years past. We’ve selected five cigars that have all landed in the Top 10 of Cigar Aficionado’s list over the past ten years.

We think it’s important to share the accolades again of some of these award-winning smokes with you all! So, without further ado, here are our Top 5 Top Cigars from Cigar Aficionado’s yearly prestigious Top 25 list!

Don’t forget to click on the sampler in the link below.

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Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua

To lead things off, we figured we’d start with the cigar that landed the number one spot in 2019. The Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua was created out of a beautiful friendship between AJ Fernandez and Rafael Nodal of Altadis USA. This Nicaraguan Puro is compiled with some of the best Cuban seed tobacco that can be found on AJ’s farm.

This medium to full-bodied smoke comes in a 6 x 52 “Maestro Belicoso” size that has a plethora of delicious flavor notes with each puff. Some notes you will detect while smoking this gem are pepper, earth, espresso, nuts, and cinnamon.

These 96 rated smokes from Altadis USA come in seven different sizes that either come in a box of 10 or a box of 20 and are available at our online store today.

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Arturo Fuente Don Carlos

Next up on our Top 5 Top Cigars from Cigar Aficionado is a legendary smoke from Arturo Fuente. Before the Opus X came out, this was the highly touted smoke from the Fuente Family. Landing in the number six spot of CA’s top 25 list of 2013, the Arturo Fuente Don Carlos deserves to have a spot in your humidor!

This special blend used in the Don Carlos was created for Carlos Fuente Jr. to honor his father, the namesake of this medium-bodied piece of art. This 5.37 x 52 Belicoso has a scrumptious Cameroon wrapper, all while having tobaccos from the Dominican Republic to make up the binder and filler.

Some flavor notes you’ll taste while smoking the Don Carlos are sweet cedar, coffee beans, oak, and chestnuts on the backend. Available in seven different sizes that come in a pack of 5 or a cedar chest of 25, you can now experience a taste of greatness by adding the Arturo Fuente Don Carlos to your collection!

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Rocky Patel ALR Second Edition JR 50th Anniversary

Next up on our Top 5 Top Cigars from Cigar Aficionado is the Rocky Patel ALR Second Edition JR 50th Anniversary. We chose our 50th edition of this smoke because it has the same exact blends of the original ALR, so we figured we’d share our 50th celebration a little bit longer. Landing at the number five spot in 2019, Rocky Patel was so excited to create this delicious cigar for all to enjoy.

This 6.50 x 52 medium to full-bodied gem is cloaked in a Mexican San Andres wrapper, with binder and filler tobaccos that hail from Honduras and Nicaragua. With the tobaccos being Aged, Limited, and Rare (ALR), the flavor notes are extra potent with each puff. Notes of coffee beans, roasted nuts, leather, earth, and spice can be detected while smoking this gem down to the nub.

Made in limited quantities, that arrive in a box of 10, make sure to get your hands on the Rocky Patel ALR Second Edition JR 50th Anniversary stick as soon as you can! It’s worth your time to invest in a delicious smoke from Rocky Patel.

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My Father La Opulencia

Next up on our Top 5 Top Cigars from Cigar Aficionado placed number 2 on 2018’s Top 25 list. My Father La Opulencia is another highly sought-after cigar line from the famous Garcia family. Taking some elements from the original My Father and the Le Bijou, the La Opulencia showcases the best elements from the family farm in Nicaragua.

This 6 x 54 box-pressed beauty has both Criollo and Corojo tobaccos that make up the binder, a Nicaraguan Cuban Seed for the filler, all while being cloaked with a Mexican Rosado Oscuro wrapper leaf. One element that landed the La Opulencia the number 2 cigar of 208 was its delicious flavor notes each puff provided.

Some notes you may detect while enjoying this award-winning smoke are chocolate, leather, spice, and cocoa on the backend. After smoking this once, you’ll be tempted to order a box of 20 in any of its eight different sizes.

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Oliva Serie V Melanio JR 50th Anniversary

Last up on our Top 5 Top Cigars from Cigar Aficionado is another one of our cigars that we showcased in our 50th celebration last year. Although the Oliva Serie V Melanio in the Figurado Box-Pressed size landed the number one spot in 2014, we figured we’d feature the same cigar but in a round toro. The Oliva Serie V Melanio JR 50th Anniversary is the brand’s first rounded Melano to ever be created.

Cloaked in an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, the Serie V Melanio JR 50th has Nicaraguan tobaccos that make up the binder and the filler. Flavor notes you’ll detect in this gem are toast, leather, black pepper, cinnamon, and black pepper on the backend.

With this product being already in limited quantity last year, make sure to grab your box of ten of the Oliva Serie V Melanio JR 50th anniversary smoke today!

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