(Editor’s Note: A version of this post first appeared in the December version of The Newsletter.) Ashton Symmetry, Padrón Family Reserve No. 50 and the Tatuaje Lancero Sampler. Those are just three products that were not reviewed on halfwheel in 2014 because of our previous guidelines regarding what we review. For its first three years, halfwheel reviewed prerelease cigars—products that were not yet available for sale—and limited edition cigars. Any cigar that is a regular or even limited production (i.e, not a set amount of cigars made) release was excluded. Every year it presented a problem and there’s a handful of major releases that were not reviewed because they did not fall into one of those categories. It was a carryover from Smoking Stogie, one of the two blogs that was merged to create halfwheel, and while it has worked for the first three years of halfwheel’s existence, it’s time to change. Brooks Whittington created Smoking Stogie in large part to review cigars that simply were not going to be reviewed elsewhere. It served its purpose, but that was six years ago and a much different website. At that point there were maybe a handful of limited editions per month and for the most part Smoking Stogie did not ...
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