The Top 25 Cigars of 2021

Join Brooks Whittington, Charlie Minato and Patrick Lagreid for the unveiling of halfwheel's Top 25 Cigars of 2021.
We'll unveil our list cigar-by-cigar starting with #25. Guess your pick below and maybe we will give you a virtual high five.

[@ShawnL61189]

I think the scoring needs to be done in blind taste tests to be 100% objective. I’d have a different party take the bands off the cigars, keep track of them by number on a list, send them out to you guys, then you guys send in your cigar scores on the unknown cigar. There’s absolutely going to be brand bias in scoring if one knows what the cigar is.

[@bubbles7806]

Halfwheel is so important to me and to the industry. Thank you for all the information you provided on a daily basis. When is number one being announced?

[@Nokomisclub]

Isn’t Avo a Davidoff product? That would mean 3 from them

[@lestagez]

it is from davidoff.

[@spallen77]

There is some great cigars on this list. Great job!!

[@QualeQualeson]

The relevancy question, which I saw was a theme in the chat, is interesting. At what point does a cigar become so unavailable that scoring it doesn't matter to hardly anyone but the smoker? Surely, any media top list is fundamentally meant to hold some sort of potential resonance with a recognizable reality for a collective. I think that I'd keep the unicorns out of these lists for the simple fact that function has to play into this on some level. Otherwise the exercise is rather pointless.

[@Tstorm-il5ih]

just found this channel,new sub

[@jasonrawls6959]

Charlie comes across as a little rude but I can relate to people that get easily annoyed sometimes.

[@msch6020]

Rude or maybe a bit on the spectrum, hence seems rude

[@anatolyyurkin6635]

Нет таймкода и списка? 54:40 на 13 месте давидофф 12 аво 7 давидофф

[@tysonboy1980]

I was with you until you got to number one.🙄

[@NothingMaster]

You pick a practically impossible to find cigar as your No. 1 choice?!?! It doesn’t get much more disconnected and arrogant than that.

[@jw-ce5rn]

Yeah. Every year the same BS. I don't watch reviews for entertainment, but to help me pick a cigar I can actually buy.

[@k9teamzagrebskolazapse149]

I love Oliva but I like sometimes O or V or Melanio it really depends on number factors ( my time for cigare , or is vikend or I'm working and I just wont good cigare whic is affordable that is 0,005€ to 15€) . All 25 cigars that you show I didnt sewn price, you said that they can find. Is that yoke, isn't normal that one of most important things is thatbyou can buy cigare in most smoke stores. If you who are payed from all big players to give them big numbers and you cand find tham . Are you listening to you what are toking about. First dependability, 2. Price. 3 Cwality . You are yust bisnis like all other and you are not unblemished my Fathers has good cigars but how much they pay you to say they name. You are realy jouke . I really don't care about your pallet cigars and brands whicni can't find 😂 In stors but you are rate them 99 :)) . My flawore is my and some ons can bee 50% different. But I really don't buy that shirt that I will go to my store and look to 25 that cigars which you recomend .Also in EU is My father little hard to find but I bith box of La Aroma Del Caribe to my love ( mi amore) and cigar is really good . But I smoke 4€ cigars Quintero from Cuba which is OK but if you giwe 1 are to all Cubans both in EU they will bee 50% better cos fermentation isn't Ower Cubans sell half prodact too people and nobody don't tolk about that . And you don't haw bools to say something cos they are paying you for that stupid list. I realy dont need you to tell mee that Oliva V , or Oliva V Melanio is wery good cigar I now that 😂 ,and I smoke 10 ares and 1 are for real that means 2 or 3 daily depends on day. Before I smoke only vikends 1 cigare. I really can believe that people buy that what you are selling I also know that Davidoff Are off Tigar is very good cigare and cost 50€:)) ofcorse that is good . But I haw box of Winston Churchill and must say its good but I don't now not good as my first 2,or 3 Churchill from 2015 just like something is missing and when you know that they don't make cigare in same place from 2019 something is shady here . I wud like to now how much did Davidoff pay you for that . Where is smoler players they don't pay so who cares . But I always go in depth with something I like ,and cigars are my passion and I see that maybe has been jour passion now they are your pay check and nothing else yust income. Hard low :(