Handmade Cigars

By far our best-selling brand for over 40 years, JR Alternatives are handmade cigars that are crafted at the most prestigious factories in the world with 100% long-filler tobaccos from famous brands such as Macanudo, Excalibur, and Montecristo. Available in an array of sizes and blends, and made to be as close to the real-deal premium brands as possible, these Alternative cigars are economically priced due to their bulk manufacturing and less expensive bundle packaging. Plus, they’re just as good as any other top-quality brand on the market.

Established in 1875 and named after Shakespeare’s famous love story, the Romeo y Julieta brand has been sparking love affairs with cigar smokers around the world for over hundreds of years, and truly flourished throughout the 20th century. Sir Winston Churchill was perhaps the brand's most illustrious enthusiast, and the flagship vitola of the brand is named in his honor. Today, the popularity of this brand is stronger than ever; the company’s meticulous attention to detail combined with respect for its Cuban heritage has created a legacy of extraordinary quality, construction, and flavor that extends throughout its many line extensions. Every cigar enthusiast is sure to find the perfect Romeo y Julieta cigar to suit his or her smoking needs.

When Carlos Fuente, Sr. mortgaged his house and his son Carlos, Jr. added whatever money he had available to start a new cigar factory in the Dominican Republic, they probably only dreamed of the astounding success that this company would someday achieve. Well, the dream surely came true! Today, Arturo Fuente cigars are enormously popular. This company has redefined the art of scrupulously cultivating the perfect cigar wrapper and filler tobaccos. The Arturo Fuente line offers a medium-to-full bodied taste, with a variety of signature blends along with their classics that have won countless awards and remain revered by the most judicious cigar enthusiasts throughout the world.

From its humble beginnings in Cuba in 1935, Montecristo cigars quickly became the world’s most famous cigar trademark. The enduring tradition of Montecristo continues today in the Dominican Republic and their new factory in Nicaragua. Employing the finest cigar masters and rollers in the world, Montecristo continues to maintain its reputation as one of the finest cigars on the market and the standard by which other cigars are judged. Not a company to rest on their laurels, Montecristo provides a portfolio of fabulous blends in every shape, strength, wrapper color, and size to accommodate your smoking needs.

Our top-quality Cigar Samplers allow you to fine tune your palate and experience many of the great blends that the ever-growing premium industry has to offer. With so many different brands, sizes, shapes, wrapper colors, and countries of origin on the market; finding your favorite cigars can often be a painstaking and costly process. Here at JR, we make this task fun, easy, and affordable. Search our humungous selection of Cigar Samplers today and discover some great new smokes at the best prices that you will find on the internet!

Expertly handcrafted by General Cigar for over 40 years, Macanudo needs no introduction. It is one of America’s best selling premium cigars. Available in a variety of sizes, blends, shapes, and strengths, these handmade cigars have been described as thoroughly aged, distinctively smooth, good as gold, perfectly balanced, as nature intended, rich and intriguing, rare and luxurious, exotic and extraordinary, rich, dark, and unexpected, and just downright delicious. A staple in every connoisseur’s humidor, there’s a Macanudo cigar to satisfy every smoker’s tastes.

Since their very first cigar was sold in 1840, Punch cigars have been one of the most sought after premium brands in the world, delighting smokers with their robust flavor and outstanding quality. Today, Punch Cigars are produced in Honduras with the same standard of excellence that has been their protocol for many generations. This illustrious brand is famous for cultivating the finest Cuban-seed tobaccos grown in Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. Punch cigars have received a myriad of 90+ punch cigar reviews and ratings and hailed by their countless minions as one of the finest Honduran cigars ever made.

Jonathan Drew, Marvin Samel, and the team of artisans at Nicaragua’s Drew Estate factory are known for their edgy and innovative take on cigarmaking, while also acknowledging and adhering to time-honored tradition. With such a unique and extensive catalog (including but not limited to the extremely popular infused ACID, Liga Privada, and Herrera Esteli lines), it is no surprise that Drew Estate also has an impressive collection of high ratings from cigar publications. Offering just about every style of premium handmade cigar a smoker could want (plus pipes and pipe tobaccos), Drew Estate has ensured that cigar connoisseurs of all kinds will find a favorite, whether truly traditional in style or on the cutting edge of cigar creativity.

Gurkha cigars are Handmade in the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Using only the rarest and finest aged tobacco leaf from several nations and methodically appointing them to each of their blends, you will delight in a multitude of luxurious and unique flavors. Tastefully appointed in artistically themed packaging, and sparing no cost on quality and presentation, Gurkha is often referred to as the "Rolls Royce of cigars”.

A true classic premium handmade cigar, the affordable Baccarat brand is well- known for its flagship line’s sweet gum cap that has engaged the palates of veteran cigar smokers for decades. All rich, smooth, and high in quality while light on the wallet, each Baccarat line is crafted with care for fans of mellow to medium-bodied premium cigars while offer differing characteristics and flavor profiles.

Whether it’s that trademark sweetness or the subtler but no less satisfying recipe like the famous Repeater cigars- a mixed filler blend of choice tobaccos that sells for about $2 a stick- you are in for a very satisfying smoke at a price that you can love.

One of the biggest names in sophisticated smoking, Davidoff offers an extensive assortment of luxury handmade cigars to suit all manner of serious connoisseurs, plus an impressive array of scores from popular cigar magazines. The Davidoff selection offers a refined range in strength profiles from medium- to full-bodied, and each and every handcrafted cigar ensures an elegant experience.

The legendary Rocky Patel is one of the pioneers of the enormously popular boutique-cigar category. In addition, all of Rocky’s blends have consistently remained near the top of the list of quality small-batch cigar brands. At a factory in Nicaragua, Rocky Patel cigars are crafted with copious, complex flavors via the finest blends of premium tobaccos from a variety of nations and growing regions around the world. All of Rocky Patel’s cigars remain in high demand by consistently scoring 90+ ratings in top industry publications, and offering a dizzying array of blends that range from mild to knock-your-socks-off strong.