Best New Cigars of 2024
If you’re looking for the best new cigars to smoke in 2024, here’s a quick rundown of our favorites. We’ve seen a mix of super-premium rarities, limited-edition cigars, and affordable gems hit our store shelves this year. Some have already sold out, but that doesn’t mean more won’t trickle in. Keep them all on your radar because we get fresh cigar shipments every day of the week. Here are the top new cigars from 2024 to add to your humidor.
1. La Aroma de Cuba Noblesse
La Aroma de Cuba Noblesse is a small-batch super-premium cigar that arrived in the summer of 2024 with an all-new blend and gorgeous new packaging. Father-and-son cigarmakers Pepin and Jaime Garcia re-blended and revamped this exclusive line with the Levin family, the owners of the Ashton, La Aroma de Cuba, and San Cristobal brands. Noblesse is drawn from a San Andrés Oscuro wrapper leaf and vintage Nicaraguan long-fillers grown on Garcia family estates, all of which undergo a lengthy triple fermentation to ensure especially smooth flavor and aroma. Intricate notes of chocolate lava cake, espresso bean, and Turkish fig mingle with hints of black peppercorn in a full-flavored, well-aged smoke. See how our retail experts enjoyed smoking the new La Aroma de Cuba Noblesse in our YouTube video.
2. Fuente y Padrón Legends
In 2024, the overwhelmingly anticipated Fuente y Padrón Legends cigars arrived. This exclusive and super-rare collaboration between Carlito Fuente and Jorge Padrón comes with 40 coveted cigars. Carlito Fuente blended 20 cedar-wrapped 7-by-50 Churchills in honor of Jorge’s father, José Orlando Padrón. And Jorge Padrón blended 20 box-pressed 7-by-50 Churchills in honor of Carlito’s father, Carlos Fuente Sr. Our Holt’s retail managers, Mazz and Faccia, smoked both Fuente y Padrón Legends cigars for a side-by-side review. We’re not recommending one blend over the other on our list of the best new cigars for this year. As long as you can afford the price, you won’t regret smoking either cigar from this epic collaboration between two men who are arguably the greatest cigarmakers in the world today.
3. My Father & Tatuaje ‘La Union’ Black
José ‘Pepin’ Garcia, founder of My Father Cigars, and Tatuaje brand founder Pete Johnson marked an important milestone celebrating twenty years in business together. My Father & Tatuaje ‘La Union’ Black is a limited-edition project blended to commemorate the occasion. Two different blends are included in this 40-cigar collection. Both are handmade in a 7.25-by-50 size called the Prominente Especial. Twenty cigars blended by Johnson feature a Shade Grown Nicaraguan Corojo wrapper, while twenty cigars blended by Pepin and Jaime Garcia are finished in an Ecuador Habano wrapper. Both cigars feature an exclusive recipe of premium Nicaraguan long-filler tobaccos, including a very rare Pelo d’Oro varietal. If ‘La Union’ Black cigars are sold out before you get a chance to try them, stay tuned for a second part to this series slated to come out in 2025 called ‘La Union’ Red.
4. Oliva Serie V Melanio Edición Ano
For the past eight years, the folks at Oliva have been releasing a limited-edition cigar in its award-winning Serie V Melanio blend. For 2024, the company unveiled Oliva Serie V Melanio Edición Ano in a thick 5.5-by-60 Gordo called the Gran Toro. An oily Ecuador Sumatra wrapper leaf surrounds a robust recipe of premium Nicaraguan tobaccos matured to perfection. Notes of cedar, leather, and black pepper mingle with a touch of caramel and raisin throughout a long, succulent smoke. Just 10,000 total boxes of 10 cigars were produced, and each one includes a QR code that links to a 45-minute recording by French composer Paul Montag. Add this rare Oliva gem to your humidor while we’ve got them in stock.
5. Don Pepin Garcia Vintage
Don Pepin Garcia Vintage was released to celebrate twenty years of the Don Pepin Garcia brand. When José Pepin Garcia departed his native Cuba for the States in the early 2000s, he started over with his family, and one of the first cigars he created in America was Don Pepin Garcia. Today, this line is a pillar in the award-winning My Father portfolio with five distinctive blends. The recently added Don Pepin Vintage brings together a special recipe of well-aged Nicaraguan long-fillers under a reddish-brown Nicaraguan Corojo ’99 wrapper leaf that glistens from head to foot. Classic notes of leather, cedar, and pepper culminate in a medium to full-bodied smoke.
6. Rocky Patel Mulligans Yacht Club
Rocky Patel Mulligans Yacht Club, the grandest release yet in Rocky Patel’s ultra-popular Mulligans franchise, has arrived. A cinnamon-brown Ecuador Habano wrapper leaf surrounds a premium blend of Dominican and Nicaraguan long-filler tobaccos following ten years of patient rest. Sublime tasting notes of cedar, coffee bean, and nutmeg meld with hints of leather throughout a sweet and spicy smoke you can savor in five classic sizes. The original asking price for these regal gems was off the charts, but because they were reallocated to the Mulligans portfolio after a snafu at Rocky’s box factory, you’re saving hundreds of dollars off the price for a super-premium cigar. Toss a bundle of Rocky Patel Mulligans Yacht Club cigars in your next order and treat your pals to prime rib for the price of hotdogs the next time they come over to watch a big game.
7. AJ Fernandez Dias de Gloria Brazil
AJ Fernandez Dias de Gloria Brazil is the newest arrival in the ever-growing collection of AJ Fernandez cigars. AJ expands his top-rated Dias de Gloria brand with a dark and toothy Brazilian Mata Fina wrapper leaf rolled over a hearty core of Nicaraguan long-filler tobaccos handcrafted in a handful of popular sizes. An earthy sweetness mingles with an intense foundation of wood, mesquite, black pepper, and toast. Add an attractive box-pressed smoke from AJ Fernandez to your rotation with Dias de Gloria Brazil.
8. Padrón 60th Anniversary
Padrón 60th Anniversary is a striking Salomon patiently assembled by a handful of the longest-tenured cigar rollers at the Padrón factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. This superlative Figurado gently slopes from a 56-ring gauge at its thickest point to a 48-ring gauge at its thinnest point over a length of 6.5 inches. The 60th Anniversary was blended to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of this legendary brand. Like all of Padrón’s finest, the 60th is drawn from exclusive Nicaraguan tobaccos, aged for a minimum of ten years, and it’s available in a Natural and a Maduro wrapper.
