Monday, December 15, 2025

Kaplowitz Media. Top-Rated Cigar Reviews of 2025

Kaplowitz Media.
Top-Rated Cigar Reviews of 2025


With an eye on beating content completely to death, I will now share five (5) of the more popular KM. cigar reviews of 2025 (listed in alphabetical order). The boldface titles are links to the full reviews. The italicized quoted bits are pulled from said full reviews, and are meant purely to entice.

AJ Fernandez Cigars New World Puro Especial Robusto in Review "Weighted blanket vibes."

Cohiba Cigars Serie M Reserva Azul 2025 in Review "The mind wanders about, a sweet taste in the mouth."

La Gloria Cubana Cigars Los Gloriosos Toro in Review ""Let them eat cake." We also have cake."

Partagas Cigars Y Nada Mas Santiago in Review "Layered like a skateboard deck..."

Powstanie Cigars San Andres in Review "A rare sparkling water encounter..."

Thanks for spending time at Kaplowitz Media. in 2025. See you in 2026! (& in the slim remainder of 2025.)

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Friday, December 12, 2025

Stolen Throne Cigars Preakness 150 LE in Review

BRAND: Stolen Throne
BLEND: Preakness 150 LE

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Corona (646)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium

NOTES:
Heapings of helpings of buttery-sweet finely-ground white pepper wrapped in suede. Then dipped in caramel. Salted with a hint of florality. Also, banana rolled in brewers yeast. Peanut and cashew butters, whipped. Cedar floors and walls. Ginger.

Elegant as in a poet familiar with the plough. Combustion and construction each do their thing sans distraction. More subtle than simple rhymes, though ash does stack dimes. Smoke this after the ponies play, its languid pace will settle them jangled nerves.

Let's hear it for Journalism.

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Monday, December 8, 2025

Kaplowitz Media. Programming Report | The Skinny on The Rest of December 2025

Kaplowitz Media. Programming Report
The Skinny on The Rest of December 2025

A heads up on the (subject to change) times of some key end-of-year festivities here at Kaplowitz Media. You couldn't possibly think of a better year to wrap-up the year of our Lord 2025. Here goes...

12/15: Top-Rated Cigar Reviews of 2025
Which Kaplowitz Media. cigar reviews garnered the most views this year? Find out and wonder why.

12/19: Top-Rated Miscellaneous Review of 2025
Which Kaplowitz Media. misc. reviews garnered the most views this year? Find out and wonder why. If I recall correctly, the field of entrants includes coffees, drugstore aftershaves, and possibly more.

12/22: The 2025 Kaplowitz Media Cigar Awards (Kappys)
The Kappys return to hand out kudos to the best of the premium cigar industry. 

12/26: Cigars of the Month for December
Speaking of fields of entrants, this is the final group included in the running for KM.cotY*.

12/29: *Kaplowitz Media. 2025 Cigar of the Year
The list drops all at once. Top ten. Which cigar will win? I've no clue. Haven't given it a lick of thought yet.

'Tis the season!

::: merry ::: 

Friday, December 5, 2025

Dunbarton Cigars Red Meat Lovers Fritanga in Review

BRAND: Dunbarton T&T
BLEND: Red Meat Lovers Fritanga

WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: Mexican San Andres
FILLER: Nicaragua, US (Pennsylvania)

FORMAT: Toro (652) Prensado
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-full
SPICE: 3.5/5

NOTES:
Raw Sugar | Jamaican Jerk Seasoning | Espresso

The espresso is poured into a charred cedar cup, stirred with leather spoon. The raw sugar is in there, and in everysavorywhere, a curiously sweet-smoothing vibe in such murky inky umami depths. In the 2nd-3rd, it dominates thru a slight lull. Surrounding the whole thing is that Jamaican Jerk. It stays on your fingers while you snack on black licorice. Comes served on toasted pumpernickel. Perhaps this reads like a near impenetrable block of text, perhaps this smokes that way, but very much worth patiently breaking through.

Use the lull.

TASTE: A-
DRAW: A
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

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