Cigar Advisor Releases Their Top 25 Best New Cigars of the Year

With the New Year recently coming to a close this brings an exciting time of year for us here at Cigar Advisor, and for cigar enthusiasts as a whole. We get a chance to look back over the past 12 months, at all the new cigars that were released to the cigar market during 2015. This was a fairly large undertaking – but a gratifying one – to be able to pick the smokes we thought qualified to be “Best New Cigars of the Year.” The Cigar Advisor editorial team smoked and graded more than 70 new blends from both well recognized cigar makers and lesser-known, boutique companies. Those uncommon cigars are known as the “Sleeper Cigars”. Managing Editor John Pullo explains, “I am glad they were not overlooked, since a few of those “Sleeper Smokes” made the list”
Executive Editor Gary Korb had was given the undertaking of unveiling their unanimous choice for #1 New Cigar of 2015. This list had some great manufactures on the list from big names like Padron to the smaller boutique cigars from 1502. “I won’t ruin the surprise here,” says Korb. “All I’m going to say is that this particular cigar was one of the rare ones which kept my attention from start to finish.” Although Gary did divulge some of his tasting notes for this amazing smoke. Explaining that this particular selection, “jockeys its way through a virtual maze of nutty, toasty, earthy, sweet-spicy flavors, and the occasional wisp of chocolate served-up in a perfectly balanced brew.”
In addition to collectively choosing some of the top new smokes of 2015, the Advisors called out their personal preferences for the best new cigar they smoked within the past 12 months.
The Cigar Advisor editors’ had a fairly simple selection process: Everyone on the team smoked it, and they all liked it. However we want to caution you that everyone’s tastes may be different, but I think you will agree that we have some top notch cigars on this list.
The Cigar Advisors have included tasting notes to complement every entry on their Top 25 New Cigars of 2015 list; to see all the cigars that made the list, and learn which cigar brandished the top spot as our #1 cigar of the year, Click Here.