In February 2014, the cigar news, reviews and social forum website Cigar Federation announced that it would be releasing its first branded cigar, a creation coming out of Casa Fernández’s Miami factory called The Collective. The cigar was created as a way to “pay homage to New Media and the online cigar community,” according to the press release detailing it’s particulars. It was released in a single vitola, a box-pressed 6 1/2 x 52 prensado size, one that has become increasingly common for single-vitola releases as a way to appeal to a wide array of consumers, as well as for being one of the easier sizes for a factory to produce. The cigar was blended by Kyle Hoover and Chris Kelly, both the founders of the site and two of the three people behind the creation of Ezra Zion Cigars. The third, Alan Fonseca, has since left the company. Here’s what I said about Cigar Federation’s The Collective when I reviewed it in March 2014: To say I was underwhelmed by the first two samples of The Collective I smoked would be a fair assessment, and had it not been for the final cigar delivering a much better draw and pronounced ...
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