Cigar Review: A.J. Fernandez New World Brute

 

(Halfwheel) ... The New World Brute is a box-pressed 6 x 66 gran gordo, the biggest size in the New World line, which debuted at the 2014 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show and arrived at retail in August. It is a Nicaraguan puro with a binder from Jalapa and fillers from Condega, Estelí and Ometepe, and was created to pay homage to “the discovery of the mystical smoking leaf named tobacco by the Europeans, when their ships landed in what is now known as the New World,” according to a company press release. New World was created with the goal of crafting a cigar that could sell for $10 but was offered for about half that amount. Continued