"Monday, March 12, 2012 @ www.cigar-coop.com/-dpg-blue

Don Pepin Garcia Blue Label Firecracker
In the past year, the Garcia family has been promoting many retailer exclusive cigar blends and vitolas under the My Father Cigars brand. Retail exclusive cigars are nothing new to the Garcias and in particular Don Pepin Garcia. A few years ago, under the Don Pepin Garcia brand, a retail exclusive cigar was provided to Two Guys Cigar Shop in New Hampshire. This cigar was a special vitola of the popular Don Pepin Garcia Blue Label and is called the Firecracker. From it's appearance, it looks more like a M80 - complete with a fuse. In addition, when examining this cigar, it appears to be more like a 1/2 size cigar - which it basicaly is. This little cigar delivers a powerful bunch and provides some very nice flavors making for a nice smoking experience in a short amount of time.

The Don Pepin Garcia Blue Label series comes from Garcia's original company, El Rey de los Habanos. It was originally made at the factory in Miami bearing that company's name and then production was shifted to Tabaclaera Cubanas S.A. in Esteli, Nicaragua. The Blue Label series has produced one other retail exclusive vitola, a special lancero (for Puff n Stuff in Georgia). The Firecracker is a unique vitola in terms of the porfolio of cigars offered by the Garcia family (El Rey de los Habanos and My Father Cigars). Measuring three inches in length, it is definitely one of the shortest cigars I have seeen with a 50 ring gauge vitola.

Let's take a closer look at this cigar and see how it breaks down. I will disclaim that this assessment is based on a single smoke of the Don Pepin Blue Label Firecracker."