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 • This edition of CIGAR AFICIONADO is truly a banner issue. It’s the first time in 15 years—perhaps more—that three classic 95-point cigars have turned up in our regular tastings section. Looking at the larger picture, more than half the cigars in the entire issue scored 90 points or higher. There’s no denying we are in an era of exceptional quality.

Are You Not Entertained?

out of the humidor

Cigar Aficionado

good life guide • 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.

A Cigar Vision In Red

Vacheron Constantin Overseas Everest Limited Editions

Super-ageWhisky

Béarnaise Sauce

Slippers

Aston Martin DBX

Cuban Double-Nine Dominoes

THE SUCCESSION PLAN • VETERAN ACTOR BRIAN COX IS TELEVISION GOLD AS “SUCCESSION’S” LOGAN ROY, A MOGUL WITH A HEART THAT’S COLDER THAN A SCOTTISH WINTER

The Old Fashioned

The Unstoppable Stream • Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+ and other streaming services are rewriting the rules of entertainment

XANDER’S VICTORY CIGAR • WHEN TEAM USA’S XANDER SCHAUFFELE LIT UP AFTER THE RYDER CUP WIN, HE WAS FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS FATHER

BRAVE NEW RESORTS WORLD • Vegas’ new $4.3 billion property is a gambling, dining and cigar hotspot, with an attention to luxurious details

VEGAS’ STUNNING NEW CIGAR BAR

THE LOWLAND LOWDOWN • Scotland’s unheralded Lowland whisky region is a surprising source of high quality and tradition

THE PAIRINGS

THE RETURN OF THE GREAT DEFENDER • Land Rover’s classic SUV takes on contemporary conveniences, but never forsakes its tough-as-nails heritage

EVOLUTION OF A CLASSIC

cigars

churchills

figurados

grandes

panetelas

The perfect Holiday Gift

robustos

toros/corona gordas

buying guide • TOP SCORES, VALUES AND STRENGTH | BLIND TASTE TEST NO. 165

connoisseur’s corner • A TASTING OF VINTAGE CIGARS

Danny DeVito • ACTOR • Partagás Serie D No. 4

Jeremy Piven • ACTOR • Illusione 88

John Gotti Jr. • BUSINESSMAN • Gurkha Grand Reserve Churchill

Jon Cooper • HOCKEY COACH • Arturo Fuente Rothschild

Moe Cason • BBQ PITMASTER • Liga Privada No. 9 Corona Doble

Taylor Kinney • ACTOR • Padrón Serie 1926

Eddie Muller • TELEVISION HOST • Macanudo Café Duke of York

The Mystique of Medio Tiempo • This powerful, yet fickle tobacco brings strength and complexity to a cigar blend

Smoking Medio Tiempo • Thirteen Premium Cigars That Contain Medio Tiempo And Scored 90 Points Or Higher

AN AMERICAN DREAM • Inna Tuler was nearly broke when she came to America in 1991, but after building a multimillion-dollar company she enjoys a Beverly Hills cigar club membership

moments to remember

last leaf