The Best Cigars You Need for the Fall

Autumn or fall, as we all know, is the season of the year between summer and winter, during which temperatures gradually decrease. The declining temperatures of the season and the imminent chilly weather of the winter are some of the major reasons why cigars are the perfect indulgence to help keep you warm and cozy all fall.

Of course, you can have any kind of smoke that you like at any time in the year, but there are a couple of cigars that are must-haves once it is the fall season. Just like you would enjoy cigars with citrus or other fruity notes in the summer, the rich flavors of certain cigars are the perfect blends that you need for the fall. Here is a list of the best cigars that fall under this category.

1. Rocky Patel Renaissance Maduro

Traditionally, fall is the season of the harvest, and so a cigar with fruity and earthy tasting notes is very on-brand for this season. The Rocky Patel Renaissance Maduro is from Rocky’s bestselling Renaissance franchise. Cased in a phenomenal and succulent Maduro Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper around a complex blend of Nicaraguan and Honduran tobaccos, the cigar gives intricately balanced tasting notes of black currant, raisins, dark chocolate, and earthy spices, wrapped in a variety of popular shapes.

With its flavor profile and medium to full strength, this cigar makes the perfect smoke for fall that can awaken your senses while you’re raking leaves in your garden or give you a lively high during special occasions this season.

2. Ashton Aged Maduro

 

The merit of aging tobacco is that it naturally gains maturity and increased depth in its flavors. In a season where rich flavors make the best smokes, the Ashton Aged Maduro is certainly what you need in your humidor. Also encased in the excellent Connecticut Broadleaf of the Maduro wrappers, the cigar possesses a mature profile of molasses, black pepper, dark chocolate, and notes of fresh ground coffee in its aged Dominican binder and filler tobaccos, handcrafted in a suite of classic shapes. It’s a mild to medium-bodied cigar perfect for some kick-back time with a glass of bourbon, rum, or a cup of hot cocoa.

3. San Cristobal El Principe

A short stogie with its Half Corona vitola (cigar shape), the San Cristobal El Principe offers a short-length smoke so you won’t have to stay out in the cold weather for too long. However, that little time will still encompass a remarkable smoke with this cigar’s notes of coffee and hints of floral, honey, and cream in its medium-bodied tobacco. Once you take a few puffs from this cigar, you’ll be wishing it could last much longer.

4. Oliva Master Blends 3

Everyone loves warm things when the weather is cold; steaming cups of coffee, sweet hot chocolate, and cozy leather jackets, for example. The Oliva Master Blends 3 incorporates all of these with layered notes of dark chocolate, coffee beans, leather, and brown sugar in an exceptional blend of well-aged Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos wrapped in a gleaming Connecticut Broadleaf.

The strength of this cigar lies between medium and full, and it is also crafted in a range of popular shapes. Among the numerous top-rated cigars in Oliva’s portfolio, Master Blends 3 is often considered the brand’s true Crown Jewel!

5. Arturo Fuente Hemingway

Carlito Fuente, the master cigar maker, rolled these cigars in grand fashion using only the finest Dominican tobaccos and choicest Cameroon wrappers, making the Arturo Fuente Hemingway one of the most popular cigars in the world. The cigar has a luscious profile of cinnamon, cedar, nuts, and baking spices is medium in strength, and comes in a set of elegant and unique sizes. The rich, earthy flavor profile that this cigar boasts is what makes it perfect for the fall.

6. Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series Imperial Maduro

Padrón is a family cigar brand, and their Anniversary Series was crafted as a tribute to the brand’s founding year and 3 decades of putting out some of the finest cigars in the world. These box-pressed Toro cigars carry Padrón’s classic rich cocoa and coffee profiles through a perfect and even medium-strength draw. Your palate will be delighted by the full, rich, robust, and earthy flavors of this fall cigar.

7. Flor de las Antillas

A tribute to Cuba rolled into a Nicaraguan cigar, the Flor de las Antillas (“Flower of the Antilles”) are box-pressed beauties with superb construction, crafted with well-aged and impeccably blended Nicaraguan tobaccos only and enfolded in a reddish-brown Sun Grown Nicaraguan wrapper. This cigar gives a medium smoke with a rich flavor profile of cedar, spice, nuts, and cocoa that culminate in a creamy and zesty finish on your tongue.

8. Joya de Nicaragua Antaño Connecticut Robusto

While the Joya de Nicaragua Antaño CT Robusto might be wrapped in a light Connecticut-seed wrapper from Ecuador to give a milder smoke from the Antaño brand, the Robusto juxtaposes that lightness with rich, medium to full flavors that are lively, even, sweet and spicy all at once, combining notes of honey, cinnamon, cream, and rum with a dry nuttiness, and then a dark chocolate finish.

9. Casa Turrent Serie 1973 Torpedo

The Serie 1973 Torpedo is a thick, semi-pressed figure that’s filled with flavor. With a Mexican wrapper, Mexican binder, and a blend of both Mexican and Nicaraguan filler, Casa Turrent took a new spin on Mexican tobacco with this medium-bodied cigar. The main flavor that you get from the Torpedo is a nutty sweetness, with added notes of cinnamon and black tea for a touch of complexity.

10. La Aroma de Cuba Edicion Especial No. 2

Featuring a classic Cuban three-seamed cap, Cuban-seed wrapper from Ecuador, and Nicaraguan binder and filler, the Robusto vitola of Don Pepin Garcia’s La Aroma De Cuba Edicion Especial line of cigars has been handcrafted masterfully for seasoned palates. The profile is medium to full-bodied with complex notes of smoked almonds, dark cocoa, spices, leather, and creamy espresso, and a woody, zesty, and “Cubanesque” finish.

11. Herrera Esteli Brazilian Maduro Lonsdale Deluxe

A product of Willy Herrera joining forces with Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate to expand their non-infused cigar line, the Herrera Esteli Maduro is a cigar of medium to full strength with a Brazilian Maduro wrapper, Connecticut Broadleaf binder, and Nicaraguan filler tobaccos. Lighting up this cigar, you will get a layered smoke with a flavor profile consisting of malt, smooth chocolate, and woody notes at the forefront, and then a natural sweetness on the finish.

12. Viva La Vida Jester

No jokes are coming from this, Jester. The Jester is a thick Robusto and the newest size of the Viva La Vida line. The full-bodied blend is dark and strong and consists solely of Nicaraguan tobacco rolled into a Nicaraguan wrapper. Its bold flavor profile consists of notes of dark spice and leather. As a cigar from a brand that sells some of the finest quality tobacco on the market, this is one Jester that certainly packs a powerful punch that’s perfect for the season.

13. H. Upmann Corona Major (Tubo)

For a small cigar, the Corona Major Tubo viola carries strong tastes blended with herbal flavors and cedary notes. Everything about the cigar’s construction is Cuban through and through. This little corona delivers medium-bodied intricacy in its all-encompassing profile of almonds, nutmeg, black pepper, lemon peel, and freshly split pine. The blend also tosses in unusual notes of vanilla cake and peaty Scotch pop which still manage to stay balanced with the rest of the cigar’s profile.

14. Viaje Circa ’45 No. 1

The Circa was once a European exclusive but is now available in the US. This Robusto is yet another tribute to Cuba with a Nicaraguan Habano wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and filler, and medium to full strength when you light it up. The flavor profile consists of notes of white pepper, nougat, juniper, and a touch of fruit before a striking nutty finish.

15. Casa Cuba Doble Tres

Created by the late Carlos Fuente Sr. in 2013, the Casa Cuba Doble Tres is an old-school-style cigar with more emphasis placed on its bold, delicious taste than on its packing a powerful punch. The medium to full-bodied corona consists of an Ecuadorian Havana wrapper and Cuban-seed Dominican filler, and binder tobaccos. It gives its smokers a taste of what the first-ever cigars were like, starting with fruity and floral notes, then taking on a spicy earthiness with a hickory-smoked note of red meat and equally floral finish. Fall is a great season for recollection and a great time to light up this nostalgic cigar too.

16. Fuente Fuente Opus X (Fuente Fuente)

The last Arturo Fuente cigar on this list, the Opus X, is allegedly one of the most mysterious suites of cigars to be released from the industry. Maintaining Arturo Fuente’s reputation for unsurpassed quality with both the flavor and construction of their cigars, the Opus X Fuente Fuente is a medium-bodied cigar with all its crafting components (binder, filler, wrapper) cultivated in the Chateau de la Fuente farm in the Dominican Republic. The smoke profile discharges notes of hickory, nougat, and pistachio underscored by a light earthiness, the finish giving off hints of coffee beans and a dry fruitiness.

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