The local tobacco shop’s humidor can be a nebulous shopping experience. “Family blend” and “reserva” are as ubiquitous in those cedar-lined rooms these days as the gold and silver foil embossing every label and box. If you can’t find your go-to brands or blends or just want to try something new, it’s usually best to look at the numbers. This isn’t a sermon on price-comparison shopping, and trying to get you more smoke for your stacks. This is about anniversario cigars—cigars blended and released to celebrate a company’s milestone.
Cigarmakers often see business through the lens of survival. Between government crackdowns on their products and a generationsago exodus from Cuba that saw many
