In a market crowded with thousands of offerings, there will always be great products that for whatever reason, don’t sell or attract enough of an audience and have to be discontinued. The cigar world is no different, and if you ask any seasoned smoker or retailer, almost anyone can come up with a cigar that they really liked but for whatever reason is no longer available today. Such seemed to be the case of the Coronado by La Flor Dominicana, a cigar that was released to generally rave reviews when it was released in the summer of 2006. It was full and powerful, complex and flavorful, and with its reasonable price seemed to be destined to find a consistent place among the company’s most popular cigars. Yet it lacked one thing: the La Flor Dominicana branding. While the Coronado did garner a following, it never seemed to gain enough of one, being glanced over in humidors even though it sat right next to other LFD cigars, and as the industry grew and choices became more abundant, it had a harder time sticking out, let alone identifying itself as a cigar made by one of the modern masters of full-bodied cigars, ...
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