Cigar of the Month: March 2023

March 1, 2023

Curated to provide you with some of the best and hottest cigars on the market at an unbeatable value, there is no better way to develop your palate than with JR Cigar’s all-new Cigar of the Month Club.

Each month, we will send you five top-notch cigars in a specially designed custom-made box. For just under $31 per month, each month you will get five new cigars for you to throw into your humidor and enjoy. Subscribe for a year up-front and you will get 10% off, and get a free gift worth $60!

Joining the Cigar of the Month Club will also get you 50% off your JR Plus membership, which includes free shipping on ALL orders, not just Cigar of the Month. Cigar of the Month Club subscribers who also join JR Plus will also get a bonus cigar with each month’s box, absolutely free.

Without any further ado, let’s get into the inaugural Cigar of the Month Club lineup!

Alec & Bradley Kintsugi Toro

Country of Origin: Honduras

Wrapper: Honduras

Binder: Honduras/Nicaragua

Filler: Honduras/Nicaragua

Ring: 52

Length: 6

Strength: Medium

Smoke Time: 90-95 Minutes

Created by the namesakes of Alec Bradley Cigars, Alec and Bradley Rubin, the Alec & Bradley Kintsugi Toro shows that these young cigar blenders have a ton of potential. Kintsugi is inspired by the ancient Japanese art style of the same name, where broken ceramics are bonded with lacquers infused with precious metals to create an even more beautiful piece.

Cigars bring people together in much the same way. To create a cigar good enough to bring people together, Alec & Bradley blended Kintsugi with finely aged Nicaraguan and Honduran long fillers and dual binders pieced together with a gorgeous Honduran Habano wrapper.

Delicious flavors of leather, cinnamon, dark roasted coffee, earth, and rich spice will pour from the cap with each puff, and the smooth medium-bodied profile is a true crowd-pleaser.

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Ferio Tego Timeless Panamericana Epicure

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra

Binder: Nicaragua

Filler: Nicaragua/Costa Rica

Ring: 50

Length: 5

Strength: Medium-Full

Smoke Time: 60-75 Minutes

Speaking of cigars that display togetherness, the Ferio Tego Timeless Panamericana Epicure brings together top-quality tobaccos from across the Americas. This top-rated smoke is made with long-fillers from Nicaragua and Costa Rica surrounded by a thick Nicaraguan binder and a beautiful Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, crafted courtesy of the famous Plasencia family.

These timelessly good treats serve a rich medium-full-bodied bouquet of white pepper, espresso, leather, toffee, oak, and roasted nuts.

Released in 2014 and revived in 2021 by Ferio Tego brand owners Michael Herklots and Brendan Scott, one puff from the Ferio Tego Timeless Panamericana and you will understand why Ferio Tego dedicated itself to bringing it back for us enthusiasts to enjoy once again.

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Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Nicaragua Toro

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Nicaragua

Binder: Nicaragua

Filler: Nicaragua

Ring: 54

Length: 6

Strength: Full

Smoke Time: 90-95 Minutes

Created to celebrate the founding of the incredibly famous Montecristo brand, the Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Nicaragua Toro is an exceptional cigar that deserves a spot in any premium cigar connoisseur’s humidor. To capture the rich old-world flavors of Montecristo’s Cuban roots, Altadis U.S.A.’s Grupo de Maestros and Rafael Nodal sought out the talented cigar maker A.J. Fernandez.

Rolled and box-pressed at A.J. Fernandez’s San Lotano factory, the 1935 Anniversary Nicaragua is composed entirely of top-shelf Nicaraguan tobaccos grown on A.J.’s farms throughout the country. You can expect a complex full-bodied tapestry of peppery spice, coffee, cinnamon, earth, charred wood, and a delectable tobacco sweetness to coat your palate with each puff.

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JR Ultimate 50th Toro

Country of Origin: Honduras

Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra

Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf

Filler: Honduras

Ring: 54

Length: 6

Strength: Medium-Full

Smoke Time: 90-95 Minutes

Montecristo is not the only brand to have a significant anniversary recently. In 2021, here at JR Cigar, we celebrated our 50th anniversary, and we celebrated it in a big way. Along with popular brands around the industry making special blends just for us, we released one of our best JR Ultimate yet, the JR Ultimate 50th Anniversary Toro.

To treat our beloved customers to a top-of-the-line JR Ultimate blend, we reached out to A.J. Fernandez’s eponymous factory to bring together a hearty blend of Honduran and Nicaraguan long-fillers, a San Andres Mexican binder, and a dusky Ecuadorian Sumatra oscuro wrapper.

Each puff will provide your palate with a medium-full-bodied smoke brimming with flavors of spice, dark chocolate, leather, espresso, earth, and a dried fruit sweetness.

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Crowned Heads Le Patissier No. 50

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf

Binder: Nicaragua Jalapa

Filler: Nicaragua/Costa Rica

Ring: 50

Length: 4.38

Strength: Medium

Smoke Time: 45-60 Minutes

Our final Cigar of the Month entry is named after a famous French chef that popularized the souffle, the Crowned Heads Le Patissier No. 50, and it lives up to its namesake with a flurry of sweet and savory dessert flavors. Originally introduced as a limited edition cigar in 2021, Le Patissier proved to be so delicious that Crowned Heads just had to make it a full-time release.

Le Patissier is hand-made at the prestigious NACSA factory in Nicaragua with a Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper over a Nicaraguan Jalapa binder and long-fillers from Costa Rica and Nicaragua’s Ometepe and Pueblo Nuevo regions. With a rich medium-full-bodied profile, Le Patissier will treat the palate with a complex medley of chocolate, earth, baking spice, leather, coffee, and tobacco sweetness.

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JR Plus – Oliva Master Blends 3 Churchill

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Broadleaf Sungrown

Binder: Nicaraguan Habano

Filler: Nicaraguan Ligero

Ring: 50

Length: 7

Strength: Full

Smoke Time: 110-120 Minutes

JR Plus members get a bonus cigar in each Cigar of the Month Club box, and you are in for something good with the Oliva Master Blends 3 Churchill. The third iteration of Oliva’s Master Blends series, this gem was first released almost two decades ago but is still a prized member of countless connoisseurs’ cigar collections.

Although it doesn’t have the same name recognition as the Serie V Melanio, Master Blends 3 is made with some of the best Nicaraguan ligero long filler and binder tobaccos the Olivas have to offer. All cloaked in a robust Connecticut Broadleaf Sungrown wrapper, you will experience a full-bodied smoke brimming with bold flavors of black pepper, spice, chocolate, earth, coffee, and rich tobacco sweetness.

Be sure to get all these top-quality cigars delivered right to your door by joining the Cigar of the Month Club and becoming a JR Plus member!

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Final Thoughts

Have you missed out on the previous Cigar of the Month packs and are looking to play catch up? If you click here, you can check out the various five-packs of the previous cigar of the month samples we have left over!

Enjoy!

Comments

6 responses to “Cigar of the Month: March 2023”

  1. STEVE BROWM says:

    When does the cigar of the month ship?

  2. Paul Choate says:

    Looking for cigars that are less than med-full.

  3. Steve Q says:

    Fabulous cigars, looking forward to April’s selection

  4. Charles Duke says:

    I like mellow to medium strength, how will that work with COTM?

    • admin says:

      Hello! So as of right now we do not offer different options for each month, however it is something we are looking to add in the future. Also, we make sure to create a wide variety each month of cigars for each palate and preference.

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