Halfwheel's Top 25 Cigars of 2024

[Montezüma]

  On 1/19/2025 at 1:44 AM, mikejh said:

Have you had that one?

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Yes.

1/3

2/3

(3/3)

This is the Robusto burning in one of the Late Hours of my working week, to try and fulfill its promise as a premium evening smoke. 

Halfwheel went to score the Late Hour a solid 92 across the board, so the praise is consistent throughout all vitolas despite awarding the petit panatela in particular. 

I was never a fan of the Winston Churchill series and in the same vein, the Late Hour blends leaves from a variety of sources including Nicaraguan and Dominican in one.This cigar starts slow with little surprise. The intensity of the last third is more commendable and features a slower burn. The Nicaraguan profile is more prominent in this cigar and as we know, Halfwheel already has literature on the full array of flavours it can deliver.

As a big fan of the Davidoff Nicaragua, this formula of multi-source blending personified by the Winston Churchill series always seem to fall short for me.

As if there is a threshold that challenge blends of such variety of leaves that deem puros superior - do feel free to prove me wrong.

Then again perhaps it is just my personal preference towards puros that has unfairly appraised this cigar.

[Li Bai]

  On 1/24/2025 at 7:48 AM, HenryMartin said:

Yes. 

1/3

2/3

(3/3)

This is the Robusto burning in one of the Late Hours of my working week, to try and fulfill its promise as a premium evening smoke. 

Halfwheel went to score the Late Hour a solid 92 across the board, so the praise is consistent throughout all vitolas despite awarding the petit panatela in particular. 

I was never a fan of the Winston Churchill series and in the same vein, the Late Hour blends leaves from a variety of sources including Nicaraguan and Dominican in one. This cigar starts slow with little surprise. The intensity of the last third is more commendable and features a slower burn. The Nicaraguan profile is more prominent in this cigar and as we know, Halfwheel already has literature on the full array of flavours it can deliver.

As a big fan of the Davidoff Nicaragua, this formula of multi-source blending personified by the Winston Churchill series always seem to fall short for me.

As if there is a threshold that challenge blends of such variety of leaves that deem puros superior - do feel free to prove me wrong.

Then again perhaps it is just my personal preference towards puros that has unfairly appraised this cigar.

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I'm not a big fan either, especially given the price point. But I'm a CC smoker and I'm not HW's target audience so I can't judge.