Quick Smoke: Berger & Argenti Clasico Churchill

Each Saturday and Sunday we’ll post a Quick Smoke: not quite a full review, just our brief verdict on a single cigar of “buy,” “hold,” or “sell.”

From the thin, simple band to the wrapper’s rich tobacco aroma, this is a cigar that announces itself as a traditional smoke. And it follows through from name to nub. The blend is a skillful balance of sweetness and pepper, with a Nicaraguan corojo binder wrapping Nicaraguan filler tobaccos and covered in a Connecticut-seed wrapper grown in Ecuador. With a price under $8 for the Churchill (7 x 50), this stick from Berger & Argenti is well worth a try.

Verdict = Buy.

–George E