Quality Cigars

Every aficionado loves getting a good deal on cigars. Saving that extra bit of money with each purchase makes it easier to fill up a humidor with a nice selection of quality smokes. It helps an aficionado try more cigars and thus expand their smoking horizon. Finding a good deal is always worth the extra effort needed to find discounted smokes, sales, and cigar auctions. While perusing the Thompson Cigars website, among the many discounts and deals, I noticed one that has me salivating.

A bundle of 25 Pinar del Rio Reserve Toro Maduros are on sale for $29.95. Straight from the tobacco experts of the Dominican Republic, these smokes need to make their way into my humidor. In addition to the quality promised by these Dominican brand smokes, I like the fact that they are described as being maduros that are mild to medium in strength. This tells me that I'm going to get a nice set of complex flavors combined with a mild smoking experience. Although I do enjoy a full-bodied robusto now and then, I prefer mild and medium smokes like these that can still deliver in terms of complex flavors.

Buy these great smokes, a good cigar lighter, and all of your cigar needs at Thompson today!

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of cigar brands available and thank goodness for that! Such a variety of fermented tobacco helps aficionados try everything from mild Corona cigars with Connecticut shade wrappers to short, fat robust smokes that pack a punch. There are also flavored smokes for every occasion and limited edition 90-plus rated cigars for the most important of events. Good smokes are made by both machine and hand, and produced in a number of countries. Nevertheless, you don't have to travel to find great smokes. All you need to do is shop the Thompson online cigar store and you will find a world of great cigars.

Buying cigars online from Thompson eliminates the need to buy a plane ticket, park the car in the airport lot, waste hours in annoying lines, and search for smokes upon arrival. Even if you think you find the right smokes, they might also turn out to be counterfeits. Instead, it's far easier to just search through the easy to use site for Thompson Cigars, pick out an interesting looking sampler, and place the order. Many of the cigars also come with free shipping and your quality smokes will be delivered to the front door before you know it.

Find the best in cigars at Thompson today.

It can be tough to pick out cigar brands to try. There are so many available that it's almost worth it to just order the first three different types of smokes that you see on the Thompson Cigars website. However, the difference in strength, taste, quality, and price shown by many cigars strongly suggests a more careful approach. Cigar samplers are always a good bet in this regard because the smokes are hand-picked by the experts at Thompson. In essence, they want to share the great smokes that they have discovered with fellow aficionados. The advice and expertise associated with such a purchase is priceless and is also why it pays to join the Thompson cigar of the month club.

Sign up and you get five, hand-rolled premium smokes that are delivered to your door each month. These are serious smokes that get hand-picked by veteran aficionados at Thompson. They have tried and personally tested each of the brands that arrive in the monthly sampler and share stories about these smokes in an information packet that comes with each sampler. Shipped for free, straight to your home, this sampler ensures a quality smoking experience.

Sign up for quality and expertise with Thompson today!

Thompson Cigars is one of the oldest cigar distributors in the world. Needless to say, these people know what they are talking about when it comes to anything related to fermented, aged tobacco. They provide aficionados with everything from humidor accessories to rare, top-rated cigars but did you know that they also have their own cigar brands?

Yes, Thompson makes several types of cigars for every taste and here are a few reasons why it's worth it to give them a try:

• Quality: The aficionados at Thompson work with some of the best tobacco growers on Earth. Although whom they work with is a secret, you can bet that the tobacco is high quality if Thompson Cigars wants to be associated with it.
• Expertise: The people at Thompson have been heavily involved with everything related to cigars for nearly a hundred years. Passion for quality tobacco and the knowledge garnered from decades of experience makes the people at Thompson some of the top cigar experts in the world. With that in mind, how good do you think their cigar brands might be?
• Price: Last but far from least, Thompson brands are lower in price than top-notch smokes of similar quality. The value is hard to beat and this could be the main reason why it's worth it to order some Thompsons.

Order Thompson brand cigars today!

Dick from Athens, AL reviewed the VSOP PANETELA NATURAL

Bottomline: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Rating:

Pros: Easy To Light, Good Draw, Great Flavor
Best Uses: Everyday

These are every inch premium grade cigars. With smokers now concentrating their buying on the name brand smokes, we have acquired the brand and remaining inventory of the VSOP line. The tobaccos here are largely Dominican filler and binder with an Indonesian wrapper. It’s a tried and true combination that Dominican manufacturers of name brand cigars have been selling by the millions for decades, definitely a mild to medium-bodied smoke that delivers as much as you would expect from a Romeo y Julieta-type cigar: not too heavy or strong, not too light, and for far less than what you would have to pay for a cigar with a more famous band around it.

Chance plays a role in the creation of every good cigar but none more so than the Opus X Lost City smokes from Arturo Fuente. These masterpieces may have never come into existence if Andy Garcia hadn't chosen the Chateau de Fuente to film parts of "The Lost City", a movie about the effects of the Cuban revolution on a Cuban family. Whereas some cigars end up with high ratings because one or two factors beyond the control of growers ended up going in their favor, the entire growing season was changed for the plants used in the Arturo Fuente Opus brand. This happened because Fuente planted tobacco in the off season so help with filming of the movie.

Master cigar craftsman that he is, Fuente probably didn't worry too much about what those plants would produce. He certainly knew how to care for the plants and would surely create quality smokes. However, he probably never imagined that those same off-season plants would end up producing some of the best smokes he had ever dreamed of. After five years  of aging, the fermented leaves from that same Lost City tobacco have been used to create a true masterpiece. With incredibly complex flavors riding a velvet smooth smoke, these cigars are destined to go down in history as one of the best of all times.

Buy these amazing Dominican Cigars at Thompson Cigars today!

bowman from Houston Tx. reviewed the ASHTON CABINET #7 CONNECTICUT TORO

Bottomline: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Rating:

Pros: Easy To Light, Good Draw, Great Flavor, Undamaged Wrapper, Well Constructed
Best Uses: Events, Everyday, Gifts, Special Occasions
Describe Yourself: Special Occasion Smoker

With the Aston Cabinet you get a truly limited edition vintage cigar. That fact is backed up and guaranteed by the father and son team of Carlos Fuente, Sr. and Jr. First of all, Ashton Cabinet boasts four different long filler tobaccos. These select Cuban and Dominican seed tobaccos are allowed to slowly reach their full maturity in the aging barns before being brought to the factory for processing. Then they are lovingly combined with the highest quality Connecticut Valley shade leaf to produce a characteristically light chestnut colored wrapper which gives the Ashton Cabinet its silky touch, aristocratic appearance, and noble flavor. Finally, after being rolled by skilled torcedores at Tabacalera A. Fuente, in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the Fuentes insist upon aging Ashton Cabinet one full year. It is this meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail that few manufacturers are able to afford that accounts for Ashton Cabinet's quality. But it is the year-long aging of the finished cigars that accounts for Ashton Cabinet's superiority. Obviously, with such care lavished on the production, the result must be awesome. We invite your opinion.

One of the barriers to premium cigars are their prices. Well, actually, when you buy smokes from Thompson Cigars that's not necessarily true. You can actually get great deals every day of the week if you check out the auction page, and browse the website for discounts. Since new sales happen all the time, it pays to look through the Thompson Cigars website once or even twice a day. That said, if you aren't lucky enough to get them for a big discount, high-rated cigars are going to cost more and are sometimes out of your weekly price range.

It's always worth it to save up for the high quality smokes but you can still enjoy great cigars for low prices when you buy packs of Thompson Black Label Corona Habanos. These smokes are for aficionados on a budget but don't sacrifice taste, nor quality. Mild to medium in strength, they make for perfect everyday smokes. Packed with a blend of high quality tobacco and rolled in a Habano wrapper, these discount smokes will surprise you with their easy draw and pleasant flavors. 

For one of the best deals around, buy a few packs of Thompson Black Label Corona Habanos from Thompson today.

Every aficionado on a budget is on a constant quest to find good cigars for low prices. If you limit the hunt to brick and mortar smoke shops, the quest can become a challenge indeed. Depending on where you look, you will probably find some contenders but on most visits, you will probably walk out the door either empty-handed or feeling like you still paid too much. Given that premium cigars do cost quite a bit more than other smokes, it's easy to understand why some aficionados give up on finding truly good smokes for low prices.

Nevertheless, online cigar stores like Thompson have greatly facilitated the search for great smokes at great low prices. In dealing with hundreds of cigar brands since the early part of the twentieth century, Thompson is able to offer discounts on all sorts of smokes. Look long enough on their website and you are going to find some truly good deals (and some would even say steals). Those discounted smokes come in the form of both well known and other, lesser known brands. Take the Thompson Green Label Cigars as an example. The specific aim of this brand is to provide aficionados with quality cigars for a low price and at just $19.95 for 20 Coronas, it's pretty easy on the wallet to try this promising brand.

Find great deals on Green Thompson Coronas and all of your smoking needs at Thompson today.

Flavor is one of the major reasons behind the enduring popularity of cigars. Once tobacco is fermented and carefully aged, flavors come out during the smoking experience that can range from deep chocolate to sweet, refreshing, tangy aromas. Master cigar makers are always searching for combinations of filler, wrapper, and binder that will result in an award-winning experience but natural tastes can also be heightened with extra flavor.

Vanilla, cherry, rum, apple, and other shades of sweetness are added to flavored smokes to appeal to aficionados who enjoy a bit of extra seasoning on their cigars. While many aficionados equate flavored smokes with machine-made cigars, some high quality flavored brands are made by hand. This is the case for those fantastic smokes offered by ACID as well as Thompson Perritos. Exclusively available from Thompson Cigars, Perritos are small cheroots that pack in the flavor with quality filler tobacco flavored with vanilla, rum, honey, cherry, or amaretto. The dark "oscuro" wrapper adds to the complexity of these quality smokes for an excellent smoking experience. When you can buy a box of 60 Thompson Perritos for just $65.95, that's a bargain in anyone's book!

Find these and other deals on great smokes at Thompson today. 

It is so worth it check the deal of the day at Thompson Cigars. You can't just look once very few weeks either or you will probably miss out on amazing deals like the one I saw on April 19th. On that day, the Thompson Powerhouse Sampler was on sale for just $39.95! It might still be on sale for a week or so but since it was listed as the "deal of the day" it might also just be limited to April 19th.

This sampler is a pretty amazing deal because it normally goes for $120! Aficionados buying this bevy of beautiful cigars get 20 premium smokes that are bound to provide a quality smoking experience with every draw. It comes with two each of great tasting heavy hitters like Rocky Patel Brothers, La Gloria Cubana, PDR Platinum, and VSOP Maduro. Different brands, wrappers, and fillers ensure a varied experience that runs from mild and easy going to strong and heavy on natural flavors. At this price, you might even want to pick up one for yourself and a couple more for aficionado friends and family.

Find this great sampler and all of your smoking needs at Thompson Cigars today.

The Leon Jimenez cigar factory is one of the oldest and most prestigious cigar makers in the country. In keeping with their good name, their inspectors are notorious for being perfectionists. They really don't let any imperfections slide, no matter how small they may be. Such cigars that they deem to be less than perfect were destined for destruction until Thompson Cigars took them off their hands for distribution. As part of the deal, these supposedly imperfect smokes can't wear the Leon Jimenez band or name but they can certainly be sold as "seconds".

If you don't mind taking a draw from a fine, premium smoke that happens to have a blemish or other imperfection that you probably won't even notice, buy Class Seconds from Thompson. Even if they can't sport the name, these smokes were rolled with the same high quality Dominican tobacco as their Leon Jimenez brothers. Coming in delicious Cameroon or Connecticut wrappers, these fine smokes are destined to please your palette and provide a quality smoking experience. To top off those benefits, they are also available for a fraction of the cost that perfect Leon Jimenez smokes go for.

Save on these high quality smokes by ordering them from Thompson Cigars today!

There are many factors that go into the making of fine cigars. First and foremost, the tobacco has to produce leaf that has been cultivated for this purpose. Growers select and propagate plants that produce the types of leaves that will add the flavors and textures they have been searching for. Such high quality plants don't grow in any old soils or climate either. They flourish in tropical and subtropical regions and this is why tobacco plants cultivated in the Dominican Republic produce such fine, quality leaves.

Another place where tobacco thrives is actually on the other side of the world. Indonesia, and the island of Sumatra in particular, has rich, volcanic soils and a wet, tropical climate that result in leaves that are filled with complex flavors. When a master cigar maker combines fine, fermented tobacco from both of these tropical islands, he can come up with some fantastic smokes. One such brand that offers the delicious combination of Sumatran and Dominican leaf is the Thompson Cigars exclusive Barlovento brand. Aficionados who discover this mild to medium high quality smoke usually want to keep the secret of its good taste to themselves in the hope that they continue to be offered for the same low price.

Buy this excellent cigar from Thompson today!

While looking for cigar bargains on the Thompson Cigars website, I recently came across yet another reason to shop at Thompson for smokes. In checking out their exclusive brands, I came across a fantastic looking Barlovento box that comes with a humidor! No matter how often I search for and find deals at the Thompson Cigars website, I never cease to be surprised by the low prices for great smokes and freebies that come with some of them.

In this case, you get 20, high quality Barlovento Connecticut Toro smokes and a humidor for less than sixty dollars! I kid you not, when I saw the image of this cigar brand, I just about drooled. A seriously smooth Connecticut wrapper is used for the exterior and gives this smoke a golden appearance that hints at the quality, mild smoking experience that awaits. The wrapper is a rare, golden leaf that has been aged for (get this) six years (!), while the binder is Nicaraguan, and the fillers are premium, triple fermented tobacco from both Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. This is one smooth smoke that promises some interesting flavors!

Get this great deal and save money on hundreds of great smokes at Thompson Cigars today.

Fig from Diamondhead, MS reviewed the ROCKY PATEL FACTORY OVERRUNS SERIE E SIXTY CONNECTICUT GORDO

Bottomline: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Rating:

Pros: Easy To Light, Good Draw, Great Flavor, Undamaged Wrapper, Well Constructed
Best Uses: Everyday, Special Occasions
Describe Yourself: Aspiring Aficionado

For our Rocky Patel loyalists who prefer a milder smoke, we're proud to present Rocky Patel Factory Overruns Series E with an Ecuadoran Connecticut wrapper and complex blend of Nicaraguan and Honduran long fillers. These Rocky Patel Factory Overruns were originally intended to grace the pages of Thompson catalogs with a price tag approaching $8 a stick but, alas, ole' Rocky kicked them outta' the box because of a few sunspots and color variations in the wrapper. His loss is your gain! Rocky Patel Factory Overruns Series E are available in five sizes – Churchill (7" x 48), Double Corona (7-½" x 52), Sixty (6" x 60), Toro (6" x 52), and Torpedo (6" x 52) – and come in a 16 pack. Save more than 50% off of the original MSRP through this Thompson Exclusive!

A recipe for aficionado happiness includes such ingredients as premium cigars, complex flavors, and low prices. It's not easy to find this combination though. You can usually encounter a blend of two of the above ingredients but finding all three together is like hitting the jackpot. It's pretty easy to spend a lot of money on high-quality smokes but look for bargains that combine unique flavors and excellence and you might end up searching a lot longer than you had expected. However, there is an easy way of minimizing the time it takes to come across the happy aficionado trifecta. Just go to the Thompson Cigars website, click on the Belmondo Habano brand and you will have found the elusive combination of excellence, fantastic flavor, and low prices. 

Designed by the man behind such 90-plus rated smokes as "Aging Room" and "Swag", Belmondo Habanos are destined to provide the same, high-quality experience. Indeed, aficionados who try them keep coming back for more because the value is just too good to pass up. Bold, complex flavors come from a Habano wrapper and binder that are combined with three carefully chosen fillers that have been aged for three years. By taste and experience, these fine smokes should probably cost double of what they go for!

Buy Belmondo Habanos for a top shelf experience at half the cost!

Who doesn't want to pay less for great cigars? Even if you have enough earnings to fund your own personal tour of the world's best golf courses while smoking Ashtons and Macanudos at every hole, it still feels good to pay low prices for quality smokes. Of course, paying less for premium, hand-rolled tobacco also helps when you enjoy the good life within the constraints of a budget. However, you won't find that discount cigar goldmine at the nearest smoke shop. The best savings on great smokes are found at the Thompson online cigar store and you will truly reach the great smoke goldmine when you check out Thompson's exclusive cigar brands.    

More than 150 brands of high quality smokes are available, all of which can be had for great, low prices. Some of the best bargains are found with smokes like the Belmondo Habano and the Thompson brand. Belmondo Habanos are created by an award winning, master cigar maker and promise the same sublime experience as high-rated smokes at a fraction of the cost (!). The Thompson brand also offers a high quality experience for every aficionado at bargain basement costs.

Enjoy saving money and experiencing these excellent brands by ordering a couple boxes from Thompson Cigars today! 

Tony the Tiger from Justin, TX reviewed the LA FLOR DOMINICANA ASSORTED

Bottomline: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Rating:

Best Uses: Gifts, Special Occasions
Describe Yourself: Special Occasion Smoker

Big names, better ratings, huge savings!

We all know Dominican cigars have been dominant for years. That being said, we've gone ahead and put together some of the best cigars that got rated 90 or better from the Dominican Republic to showcase the quality we've long known them to have. While supplies last, take advntage of this amazing collection of 12 smokes that has 2 each from the likes of, Gurkha, Romeo & Juliteta, La Flor Dominicana, Fonseca, Don Lino, and Cuvee. Normally you'd expect to pay far more for this assortment, but here at Thompson, that's just not our style. Enjoy!

Every time I check out the Thompson Cigars website, I see some great deal that grabs my attention like a humidor stocked with 90 plus rated smokes. For example, today, as soon as I navigated to the Thompson homepage, I see that there is a sampler on sale made up of ten, seriously rated smokes. Regularly priced at $79, the thing only costs $39.95! When I started reading about the brands used in this sampler, I realized this was definitely a steal because it includes:

• Two Arturo Fuentes: A pair of excellent smokes from one of the world's top cigar makers that promise a seriously smooth smoking experience.
• Two 92 rated Rocky Patel Vintage 1990s: The filler tobacco in these smokes was aged for eight long years to produce a medium stick with fantastic flavors.
• Three 94 rated Alec Bradley Tempus: Yes, three high quality smokes that earned a rating of 94! The dark maduro wrapper works with high quality Nicaraguan and Honduran filler to make this a smoke to remember.
• Three Belmondo Habanos: Quality Dominican and Cuban seed tobaccos combine with a Habano binder and wrapper to create this masterpiece.

Find this excellent deal and all of your aficionado needs at Thompson Cigars.

RS1369 from Michigan reviewed the ARTURO FUENTE CHATEAU SERIES CHATEAU FUENTE SUNGROWN ROTHSCHILD

Bottomline: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Rating:

Pros: Easy To Light, Good Draw, Undamaged Wrapper, Well Constructed
Best Uses: Events, Gifts, Special Occasions
Describe Yourself: Aspiring Aficionado, Everyday smoker

Fuente Lovers, Your Ship Has Come In

From our point of view, there is no such thing as a bad Fuente. When comparing the relative smoking pleasures of a line of cigars that is so uniformly excellent, we are hard pressed to declare a best. The justly deserved Fuente penchant for excellence is legendary. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Fuente cigars are some of the most in-demand, most difficult to find smokes in the marketplace.

Almost as hard to find as the renowned Opus X, Fuente Chateau Series is a cigar that delivers solid performance in such large measure, so much so that many of our Fuente smokers prefer it above all other Fuente products