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STEALS AND DEALS

Plus: our Register & Win winner of the week!

Los Angeles, October 16 – Sampler packs are one of the nice innovations on cigar retailing in the last few years, allowing smokers to try new blends without having to buy an entire box.

This week, a diverse set of brands are available in small packs, including Gispert, Romeo y Julieta Habana Reserve and even the famed Padron 1926 Series 40th Anniversary torpedoes.

And we found much more of interest in our weekly survey of our top-ten ranked national retailers:

AtlanticCigar.com:
European cigar fans already know about the VegaFina line offered by Altadis U.S.A. and it’s now available here in the U.S., and now at some serious savings.

• Macanudo Hampton Court (5 1/2 inches by 42 ring gauge in aluminum tubes), one of the most popular sizes of the nation’s most popular brand, now available in boxes of 25 for $110.00, best in our survey.

• Romeo y Julieta Habana Reserve Sampler, with one each of the four sizes in the line for just $15.95!

• Romeo y Julieta Vintage, extended with new sizes earlier this year by Altadis U.S.A., in elegant gift boxes of 10 in two sizes:

> Corona (5 1/2 x 44 in glass tubes), in a box of 10 for $44.00 or

> Toro (6 x 50 in glass tubes), 10 for $49.50.

• VegaFina, a European favorite now in the U.S.:

> Churchill (7 1/2 x 50), in a box of 20 for $72.95;

> Corona (5 3/4 x 43), 20 for $54.95;

> Lonsdale (6 1/2 x 43), 20 for $58.95;

> Robusto (5 x 50), 20 for $58.95;

> Toro (6 x 50), 20 for $63.95 and

> Torpedo (6 x 50), 20 for $72.95

BestCigarPrices.com:
Best has a fabulous value on a small sampler of the Gispert brand and good pricing on very expensive chests of 100 of the Gurkha Vintage Shaggy:

• C.A.O. Bella Vanilla Robusto (5 x 48), offered in boxes of 20 for $63.00. The same price is available for other C.A.O. flavored lines, including the Honey Robusto, Karma Sutra Splash Robusto and Moontrance Robusto.

• Gispert Belicoso (6 1/8 x 52), offered in a sampler of three for just $7.50!

• Gurkha Vintage Shaggy, named for its uncut foot at good prices, but still pricey:

> Churchill (7 x 52), offered in a carved chest of 100 for $563.00;

> Toro (6 x 50), 100 for $528.00 and

> Torpedo (6 2/2 x 53), 100 for $625.00. Cigars International:
Best prices we have seen on the new, Cameroon-wrapped Montecristo Serie C and Rocky Patel’s The Edge Lite:

• Montecristo Serie C:

> Belicoso (6 1/8 x 52), in a box of 21 for $117.95 or try five for $37.00;

> Corona (5 1/2 x 44), 21 for $81.95, or try five for $26.00;

> Robusto (5 x 52), 21 for $93.95, or try five for $29.00 and

> Toro (6 x 54), 21 for $106.95, or try five for $33.00.

• Rocky Patel’s The Edge Lite:

> Double Corona (7 1/2 x 52), in the box of 50 was $269.95, now $188.95!

> Robusto (5 x 50), 50 was $224.95, now $163.95;

> Toro (6 x 52), 50 was $247.95, now $171.95 and

> Torpedo (6 x 52), 50 was $258.95, now $178.95.

Famous Smoke Shop:
Famous owns the Caridad brand and has an outrageous deal on the Caridad Presidente (7 1/2 x 50), offered in a box of 25 – normally $39.95 – now $9.95! How can you resist?

• El Centurion, a new blend from Don Pepin Garcia, at the best prices in our review:

> Emperadores (5 1/2 x 52), in the box of 20 for $233.95;

> Gladiadores (6 1/2 x 52), 20 for $252.95 and

> Guerreros (5 x 50), 20 for $215.95.

Habana House:
United Tobacco’s Serie 601 by Don Pepin Garcia has been a hit, especially the full-flavored Blue Label maduro line . . . and it’s on sale now:

> Prominente (5 1/2 x 56), in boxes of 20 for $135.95;

> Robusto (5 1/4 x 50), 20 for $129.95;

> Toro (6 1/4 x 54), 20 for $147.95 and

> Torpedo (6 1/8 x 52), 20 was $176.95, now $139.95!

• Acid Blondie (4 x 38), offered in a box of 100 – for when friends drop by – for $89.95.

• Cusano 18 Toro (6 1/2 x 46), perhaps the best of the Cusano line, in a box of 18 for $78.95.

• Montecristo White Label Rothchilde (5 x 52), well prices in the box of 25 for $187.95, easily the best in our review.

• Oliva Serie V Robusto (5 x 54), the new and very flavorful line that’s impressing smokers everywhere, in a box of 24 for $98.95.

• Rocky Patel Sun Grown Sixty (6 x 60), a big cigar with a very big taste, in a box of 20 for $146.95.

• Romeo y Julieta Aniversario, with a lower profile than some of its siblings, but very well made and with a subtle taste, offered at nice prices in two shapes:

> Corona (5 1/2 x 44), in a box of 25 for $89.95 and

> Belicoso (6 1/8 x 52), 25 for $109.95.

Mike’s Cigars:
Mike’s has the newest size in Rocky Patel’s popular The Edge line, The Battalion (6 x 60), in your choice of natural or maduro wrappers in boxes of 20 for $119.00, best in our review.

TinderBox.com:
A nice price on a wonderful short smoke, the Romeo y Julieta Reserve Maduro Petit Robusto (4 1/4 x 54), offered in a box of 25 for $84.95.

TNT Cigars:
If you’ve always wanted to try the famous Padron 1926 Series 40th Anniversary torpedoes (6 1/2 x 54), here’s your chance. TNT is offering a five-pack of these favorites for $125.00. They’re not cheap, but if you want to try them, there they are.

• Carlos Torano Reserva Decadencia, the newest blend from the House of Torano, infused with the Chocolate Port from Wilson Creek Winery, at the best prices we have seen:

> Churchill (7 1/4 x 48 in glass tubes), in the box of 25 for $94.00 and

> Robusto (5 x 50 in glass tubes), 25 for $87.00.

• Romeo y Julieta Habana Reserve, the first Honduran-made Romeos in more than a dozen years, with a rich flavor and a very reasonable price:

> Belicoso (6 1/8 x 54), in a box of 27 for $89.95;

> Churchill (7 x 54), 27 for $89.95;

> Corona (5 5/8 x 45), 27 for $64.95;

> Robusto (5 x 54), 27 for $73.95 and

> Toro (6 x 56), 27 for $81.95.

And the winner is:
Congratulations to Fred Davenport of Moline, Illinois, winner of our “Register & Win” drawing for a free box of Sancho Panza Double Maduro Cervantes from our Perelman, Pioneer & Company humidors, courtesy of Mike’s Cigars.

Up for your pleasure this week is an elegant box of 25 Mantequilla Coronas, a very smooth blend of Nicaraguan tobaccos of medium body in what is actually a Grand Corona size of 5 5/8-inches by 45 ring gauge. They’re provided courtesy of our friends at Mike’s and will be awarded in our drawing to be held on Sunday, October 21.

To enter, just click on the “Register & Win” tab above and fill out the required information. If you have entered in the past, there is no need to re-enter; all past entries are carried forward to future drawings. You must be 21 or older to win; good luck!
~ Rich Perelman

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