Cigar Aficionado

Cigar Aficionado is a magazine for the man who enjoys life’s great pleasures: fine dining and entertaining, the finest wines and spirits, world travel and the arts. At the heart of every issue is the cigar: what to smoke, where to smoke, and how to enjoy a great smoke.

highlights • You’ll notice a large number of high scores in the figurado section, as this category of shapely cigars has more 94-point smokes than any other size. They are as distinct in shape as they are in character. But exceptional performances can be found throughout the issue, some from large producers, others from smaller operations.

A Quest for the Best

out of the humidor

Cigar Aficionado

good life • Living well demands that we indulge in things that are of superior quality and excellent origin. This guide aspires to find and recommend the best of everything to aficionados of the good life.

S.T. Dupont Defi Windproof Lighters

The St. Regis Cap Cana Resort

Winter Olympics Experience

Cream of the Drops

The Tuxedo

Igloos & Ice Bars

THE BEST CIGARS OF • Our Top 25 Cigars of the Year

Top 25 Cigars At a Glance

BEST BUYS 24 Great Cigars for $7 or Less

A TRIP TO THE MASTERS • Traveling to Augusta National to watch the Masters in person is like nothing else on earth

AUGUSTA 101 • Five surprising facts about going to the Masters

THE PRO SPORTS BETTING SCANDAL • The FBI uncovered multimillion-dollar illegal gambling operations involving the Mob, several members of the NBA and Major League Baseball

A Grand Old Age • How super-mature American Bourbon and rye whiskeys helped revive a stagnant category—and why no one thought of it before

The Big Smoke Takes On Sin City Once Again • Thousands came from all over the country and the world to shake hands and smoke cigars with some of the biggest names in the business for the 29th Big Smoke Las Vegas Weekend

My Favorite Cigar • Cigar aficionados describe their smoke of choice

churchills

coronas

figurados

panetelas

robustos

toros/corona gordas

buying guide • TOP SCORES, VALUES AND STRENGTH | BLIND TASTE TEST NO. 190

connoisseur’s corner • A TASTING OF VINTAGE CIGARS

moments to remember

last leaf