Top 8 Best Perdomo Cigars
Brand founder Nick Perdomo built his cigar operation from humble beginnings over thirty years ago. Nick transitioned from a career as an air traffic controller to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, Silvio Perdomo, and his father, Nick Perdomo Sr., both of whom spent years in the Cuban cigar industry.
Nick has slowly and steadily grown Perdomo Cigars into a vertically integrated business, ensuring meticulous control over the quality of his cigars. He oversees all phases of cigar production, from tobacco planting and harvesting on his Nicaraguan estates to the fermentation, aging, rolling, and packaging operations at his modern cigar factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. In addition to quality control, Nick focuses on making his cigars affordable. The Perdomo philosophy is to provide high-quality premium cigars at accessible prices. Here are the highest-rated and bestselling Perdomo cigars you can buy today.
1. Perdomo 10th Anniversary Champagne
Perdomo 10th Anniversary Champagne reigns as the number one top-selling cigar in the brand’s portfolio. What gives 10th Anniversary Champagne its edge is its approachable taste and its longevity. Nick introduced 10th Anniversary Champagne cigars in 2004 to celebrate his company’s tenth year in business. The cigars are sheathed in tinted cellophane that matches the orange-bronze bands and boxes, making them pop on store shelves. A butterscotch-hued Ecuador Connecticut wrapper leaf embraces a creamy blend of aged Nicaraguan long-fillers in a collection of thicker ring gauge shapes. Tasting notes of cedar, oak, white pepper, and graham cracker layer the palate with rich flavor and aroma without overpowering the senses.
2. Perdomo 20th Anniversary Maduro
Perdomo 20th Anniversary cigars feature a blend of Cuban-seed Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos aged for at least eight years. The blend is handcrafted in a collection of fatter shapes finished in three signature Perdomo wrappers: Ecuador Connecticut, Maduro, and Sun Grown. The most popular version is the 20th Anniversary Maduro, with its medium to full-bodied profile of cocoa, espresso bean, earth, and pepper. Nick ages the oily Nicaraguan Maduro wrapper chosen for the 20th Anniversary for eight years, maturing it for a final fourteen months in bourbon barrels to impart a distinctive sweetness.
3. Perdomo Legacy Shade Grown
Perdomo is a tight-knit, family-run company, and Perdomo Legacy is the first line created by the next generation, Nicholas Perdomo III, who blended it in honor of his father, Nick Perdomo. He chose a special hybrid tobacco developed from Cuban and Cameroon seeds. This new hybrid is utilized as the binder for the Legacy Connecticut and Maduro blends. However, Nicholas reserved the unique crop as the wrapper leaf for the Legacy Shade Grown edition. The oily, attractive wrapper is aged for ten years and matured for an additional ten months in a bourbon barrel. A blend of vintage Nicaraguan long-filler tobaccos, grown on Perdomo estates in Estelí, Condega, and Jalapa, completes the cigar. Savor a complex profile of cedar, cinnamon, molasses, coffee, and spice in a series of chunky sizes.
4. Perdomo 30th Anniversary Maduro
Perdomo 30th Anniversary Maduro cigars feature an exclusive blend of well-aged Nicaraguan tobaccos, set aside to commemorate the brand’s thirtieth anniversary. Five thick, box-pressed sizes unfold with notes of cocoa, molasses, coffee bean, and black pepper throughout a medium to full-bodied finish. This dark, toothsome smoke intrigues beneath its intricate cigar bands. Nick Perdomo introduced the 30th Anniversary in his customary trio of wrappers: Ecuador Connecticut, Sun Grown, and a hearty Nicaraguan Maduro.
5. Perdomo Habano Connecticut
Luscious tasting notes of cedar, coffee bean, white pepper, and cashew mingle with intonations of caramel and wood throughout a creamy, mellow smoke. Nick Perdomo blended Perdomo Habano Connecticut with a golden-blond Ecuador Connecticut wrapper leaf and a pleasant recipe of bourbon-barrel-aged Nicaraguan long-filler tobaccos, all matured for at least six years. Try Perdomo Habano Maduro for a darker, sweeter profile and Habano Sun Grown for a spicier smoke.
6. Perdomo Double Aged Vintage Maduro
The tobaccos reserved for Perdomo Double Aged Vintage are matured for twelve years, including the binder, filler, and wrapper leaves. For the first ten years, each component of the cigar is bale-aged, while the final two years are dedicated to aging the tobaccos in a bourbon barrel. Refined texture, color, and taste reveal notes of caramel and cedar (Connecticut), oak, spice, and almond (Sun Grown), and a chewy profile of dark cocoa, maple, and mesquite (Maduro).
7. Perdomo Lot 23
Perdomo Lot 23 is prized for its budget-friendly prices and its five-year-aged blend of Nicaraguan tobaccos cultivated from a single field developed for production back in 2000 by Nick Perdomo’s father, Nick Perdomo Sr. Today, the project has flourished into a trio of well-made blends. The original Lot 23 is an all-Nicaraguan Puro that delivers notes of cedar, chestnut, almond, earth, and pepper. Lot 23 Connecticut offers creamy, elegant taste with a touch of sweetness and cedar in the finish. And Lot 23 Maduro reveals succulent notes of mocha, molasses, and black pepper courtesy of its Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper.
8. Perdomo Inmenso Seventy Maduro
Nick Perdomo has been blending big-ring cigars for most of his career, but in the early 2000s, he introduced the Inmenso line, a series of 70-ring-gauge sizes. Although they were considered novel at the time, 70-ring cigars have become popular with fans of ultra-fat cigars. Nick rechristened the line Inmenso Seventy and brought it back in a Sun Grown and a Maduro wrapper, both featuring hearty Nicaraguan long-fillers on the inside. All of the tobacco in Inmenso Seventy cigars is aged for at least five years. Spicy notes of cedar, earth, and pepper characterize the Sun Grown blend, while the Maduro unfolds with flavors of espresso bean, dark cocoa, and wood.
