Top 25 best cigars 2019

The 25 best cigars of a given year are, as would be implied, very good cigars. There's always a recency bias that occurs when we make these lists. It always seems that this year's list wasn't as good as last year's, or the year before that, and so on. It's a feeling we share almost every year. Every year - a few months later - we learn that the 25 cigars that make up this list in a given year are really very good. It doesn't matter if it's 2012 or 2019, we just need a little time to appreciate them a little more. A total of 22 different companies made the list, by far the most we've ever had. Only 26 cigars made the cut, the fewest we've ever had. A few months ago, we had to discuss what would happen if we didn't have 25 eligible cigars. For those wondering, we agreed that we would simply publish the number we had. As has been the case for some time, cigars were eligible for this list if they were reviewed in the current year (2019) and scored 91 or higher. We only considered cigars released in 2018 or 2019, and redux reviews are not eligible. This means that each cigar on this list has been smoked a total of six times: three cigars for the original review, then each of the other reviewers, including Brian Burt, smoked a sample each. The scores were then averaged - with each person's score weighted equally - and ranked. Last year, the difference between first and second was just 0.08 points, the smallest margin in our Top 25 to date. This year, the margin was 0.015. Like our critics, we didn't take into account price, vitola, release size, wrapper, aging potential or anything else. This is a list of the 25 best cigars that met the above qualifications ranked in order.

Top cigars of the year 2019

No. 1 - Joya de Nicaragua Antaño Ct Robusto

 

No. 2 - COHIBA SPECTRE CS19

No. 3 - PLASENCIA ALMA DEL FUEGO CANDENTE

No. 4 - MI QUERIDA TRIQUI TRACA NO. 648

No. 5 - HIGHCLERE CASTLE VICTORIAN TORO

No. 6 - TATUAJE TAA 51TH

No. 7 - EIROA THE FIRST 20 YEARS DIADEMA

No. 8 - CUBO SUMATRA ROBUSTO

No. 9 - SIN COMPROMISO SELECCIÓN NO. 6

No. 10 - CRUX EPICURE SHORT SALOMONE

No. 11 - EIROA JAMASTRAN 11/18

No. 12 - LA AURORA 115TH ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION GRAN TORO

No. 13 - NEANDERTHAL LH

No. 14 - HVC 500 YEARS ANNIVERSARY

No. 15 - MY FATHER LA PROMESA LANCERO

No. 16 - GRAN HABANO BLUE IN GREEN GRAN ROBUSTO

No. 17 - VIAJE EXCLUSIVO NICARAGUA LEADED CORONA GORDA EDICIÓN LIMITADA

No. 18 - CROWNED HEADS COURT RESERVE XVIII SUBLIME

No. 19 - LIL PISTOFF KRISTOFF

No. 20 - PERDOMO ESV LIMITED EDITION BOX-PRESSED SUN GROWN PRESTIGO

No. 21 - COHIBA CONNECTICUT TORO

No. 22 - LIGA PRIVADA 10 ANIVERSARIO

No. 23 - ILLUSIONE EPERNAY 10TH ANNIVERSARY D'AOSTA

No. 24 - OSCAR VALLADARES WILD HUNTER NATURAL

No. 25 - H. UPMANN HISPANIOLA BY JOSE MENDEZ BELICOSO

    Original article by : Charlie Minato