Bolivar Cigars Aniversario LE in Review

BRAND: Bolivar
BLEND: Aniversario LE

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Habano
BINDER: Brazilian Arapiraca
FILLER: Colombian, Brazilian, Paraguayan, Argentinian

FORMAT: Toro (652)
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium-full/Full
SPICE: 2/5

NOTES:
Peanut brittle burnt in an oven, then placed in a smoker. Crumbs from a corner piece of brownie. A separate dark chocolate syrup flows and grows. A bit gruff, somewhat aggressive. Stiff leather over compost grounding. Some pipe tobaccos ghost pipes. This cigar ghosts the palate. Lo-o-o-ong finish.

At the far end of that finish, a dose of brown sugar drops and bleeds into the next draw and the next draw and the next draw, etc. Somewhere in the core is a ruby red grapefruit, baked--and on top of that is where the sugar goes. Excellent burn and draw. Isn't aggressive then is again. Some guys like that.

There's some dusty spice hither-thither.
This one might age exceptionally well.

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

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

::: very ::: 

Kaplowitz Media. Cigars of the Month for April 2026

Kaplowitz Media.
Cigars of the Month
for April 2026

(listed in alphabetical order)
(names are links to full reviews)

Bariay 1492 Red Label
Bariay 1492 Black Label

Bariay? More like BariYAY! 

::: very ::: 

Punch Cigars Rare Corojo 25th Anniversary Toro in Review

BRAND: Punch
BLEND: Rare Corojo 25th Annv

WRAPPER: Honduran
BINDER: Honduran
FILLER: Honduran

FORMAT: Toro (654)
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 2/5

NOTES:
Chocolate (unsweetened) | Earth | Wine (Tempranillo)

Tempranillo: a medium-full bodied wine, high in acidity and tannins; think red/purple fruits and leather. Dang near peppery edges. Earthiness fills out the middle here, and the middle balloons. Unsweetened chocolate happens on the other end of fuzzy borders. A warm grapefruit note twirls about.

Nice lively tension. Quite unchanging. A bit drying-tiring to the palate. Retro-hales are important and crisp-up the profile while dropping white pepper to the tongue. Not ever too terribly delineated nor complex. Enjoyable meditatively, paired with an Ethiopian coffee roasted to the light-side of medium.

TASTE: B
DRAW: B+
BURN:B
BUILD: B+

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

::: very ::: 

JC Newman Cigar Co Sarzedas in Review

BRAND: JC Newman
BLEND: Sarzedas

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Shade
BINDER: Dominican, Nicaraguan
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Toro (650)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Mild-med./Medium
SPICE: 1.5/5

NOTES:
Cocoa Butter | White Pepper | Fluffernutter Sandwich

Tastes like a sweet-tipped cigar. I like sweet-tipped cigars on occasion. My street name was Sweet Tip back when I was a b-boy. If I'm jovial, and as of this writing I am, a cigar of this type is doing its job. This one does its job with a bit more charred kick up front than some; a bit pricklier back-end.

Fluffernutters are made with marshmallow fluff and peanut butter. This one in particular is served on burnt white toast. There aren't many sounds louder or more shameful than that of scraping off bunt toast into the kitchen sink. Cocoa butter and white pepper are self-explanatory. Coconut flakes.

TASTE: B
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: B

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

::: very :::