Best Flavored Cigars
Flavored cigars are popular with folks who prefer cigars with sweet taste and aroma. Cigars can be flavored with dozens of ingredients like chocolate, coffee, bourbon, vanilla, and cherry. Plenty of novices smoke flavored cigars before they graduate to premium non-flavored brands. Makers of certain flavored brands, like Acid, prefer to call their cigars “infused” versus flavored. Regardless of how they’re classified, flavored cigars deliver specific tasting notes as a result of the syrups, oils, and extracts sprayed on, or absorbed by, the tobacco. Here are the best flavored cigars for beginners.
Nub Nuance
Coffee-flavored cigars are among the most popular. Several brands produce them, including Nub which is best known for the short fat shapes its cigars are rolled in. Nub Nuance is the brand’s coffee-flavored line. There are three different coffee-flavored blends to choose: Cappuccino (Single Roast), Macchiato (Double Roast), and Espresso (Triple Roast). Each blend is handcrafted in the bestselling Nub sizes. Sweet and milky notes of coffee, mocha, caramel, vanilla, and cocoa make Nub Nuance one of the best Nub cigars if you like flavored profiles. Nub is handmade at the Oliva factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Acid
Acid cigars are different than traditional flavored brands because of their exotic tasting notes. Acid cigars are handcrafted at the Drew Estate factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. The company defines Acid as an “infused” brand because the tobaccos are cured in special “aroma rooms” where botanical oils and extracts are used to achieve the unconventional flavors Acid cigars are known for. You’ll find tasting notes of herbs, lilac, tea leaves, cloves, raisins, cocoa, and pepper throughout the Acid portfolio. Acid Kuba Kuba (5 x 54) and Acid Blondie (4 x 38) are the top-selling sizes.
Tabak Especial by Drew Estate
Tabak Especial is a coffee-flavored cigar available in a Natural or Maduro wrapper leaf. The Natural version, called Dulce, delivers a creamy and easygoing profile of blonde roast coffee, cocoa, caramel, and a hint of vanilla. An Ecuador Connecticut wrapper covers a core of Nicaraguan long-fillers. The Maduro version, Negra, is finished in a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper that resonates with notes of mocha, hazelnut, and espresso. Sweet and silky aromas fill the room from each shape in the Tabak Especial line.
Strength: Flavored
Country: Nicaragua
Wrapper: Ecuador Connecticut, Connecticut Broadleaf
CAO Flavours
CAO Flavours covers the bases with a collection of five distinct profiles. Moontrance is the most popular blend with an exotic profile of bourbon and sweet fruit. Bella Vanilla delivers straight-up vanilla flavors with a touch of pepper. Notes of black currant and cherry meld in Cherry Bomb. Fans of Irish crème adore Eileen’s Dream for its creamy flavors of white chocolate liquor. Notes of honey and orange layer the palate in Gold Honey. CAO Flavours are handmade in the Dominican Republic and come in pocket-friendly tins. Moontrance is also available in a traditional 5.25 x 42 Corona.
Isla del Sol by Drew Estate
Isla del Sol is a budget-friendly coffee-infused cigar from Drew Estate. A Sumatra wrapper covers a Cuban-sandwich blend of Nicaraguan tobaccos in a handful of classic shapes. Tasting notes of fresh coffee and mocha accompany hints of caramel and pepper. Isla del Sol delivers sweet flavor and aroma at yard ‘gar prices.
