How we make money
When you buy through a link on this site, the store may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing extra.
What never changes
- Commissions never decide a score or a rank. A store that pays us gets its cigars ranked exactly where they would be anyway.
- No store, brand or lounge can buy a rank, see a score early, or change one.
- Paid placements, if we run any, are labelled Sponsored and kept apart from the rankings.
Our editor’s lounge
Carlos Gil edits The Cigar Score. He is also CMO and a partner at Dapper D’s Cigars, a cigar lounge with three locations in Jacksonville, Florida. Dapper D’s doesn’t pay for, see or change any score. Scores come only from published critics, year-end lists and smoker ratings, and we never list Dapper D’s as a store or rank it.
If we ever feature Dapper D’s as a partner lounge, that page will say so at the top. About Carlos Gil
How the links work
“See price” buttons go through a short link on our site (it starts with /go/), which counts the click and then sends you to the store. We count clicks without storing your internet address. Once you’re on the store’s site, its own cookies and policies apply, and an affiliate network may set a cookie so the store can credit the sale to us.
Logos and photos
Brand logos are there so you can spot each brand at a glance. They come from Logo.dev and belong to their owners. A logo on this site doesn’t mean a brand endorses us, pays us or had a say in its score.
We only show a cigar photo when we took it ourselves or have the right to use it in writing, and every photo carries a credit.
Age and health
This site is for adults 21 and over. Cigars contain nicotine, and cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes. We review taste and quality only and make no health claims.