*This video educates on cigar craftsmanship and culture without promoting tobacco use or sales.* Cigar Makers do some AMAZING things. Their art is one of the most logistically dense and complicated processes I've seen in my entire life. I admire my cigar making friends as much as I feel for the tremendous challenges they face on a daily basis. That being said, they don't always get it right. Cigar Makers have simultaneously done some of the most brilliant and bone headed things I have seen in my

La Bohéme debuted in 2014 as a Dominican cigar made at Tabacalera Palma with a blend of mostly Dominican tobacco. Eventually, Rafael Nodal retired the line. Now, he's moved it under the Aging Room banner, a brand he owns, and re-released the brand as a Nicaraguan cigar made by A.J. Fernandez. It’s an entirely new, stronger blend, featuring a hybrid of broadleaf and Habano seed grown in Connecticut. The Poeta, a 5 3/4 by 54 toro, led the pack among the four-size line, earning a score of 93 points