According to Cigar Aficionado magazine, you can count on these cigars to be the "Top 25 Best Cigars" of 2010 (We've included the "Top 10" list below):
#10 La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Chisel
The La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Chisel. It lives up to the reputation for power and full flavor that previous Chisels share.
#9 H. Upmann No. 2
An insider’s cigar, the H. Upmann No. 2 is a carbon copy of the ubiquitous Montecristo #2, sharing the same stately appearance, with its proud, pointed head and substantial 52 ring gauge.
#8 E.P. Carrillo Elencos Edición Limitada 2010
The E.P. Carrillo Elencos Limited Edition is Ernesto Perez-Carrillo's newest, and perhaps his best, a sweet and savory smoke that combines flavors of caramel and leather.
#7 Illusione Epernay Le Matin
Illusiones have done well in our ratings ever since 2007, and this is the second year in a row that one of Giolito’s Illusione Epernay cigars has appeared in the Top 25.
#6 La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Magnifico
The Mi Amor Magnifico is a stellar medium-bodied smoke, toothy, dark and box pressed, with intense flavors of rich coffee paired with a touch of vanilla.
#5 Camacho Corojo Churchill
Camacho is a Miami company (now a subsidiary of Davidoff of Geneva) that earned some of its highest ratings ever from Cigar Aficionado this year, and this No. 5 ranking of the Camacho Corojo Churchill represents Camacho’s highest finish ever in our Top 25.
#4 Padrón Family Reserve No. 45 (Natural)
The cigar is quite balanced and exceptionally flavorful.
#3 Fuente Fuente OpusX XXX Belicoso
No cigar has more names and nicknames than this short Fuente Fuente OpusX. However you ask for it, it’s a dynamite smoke, a complex powerhouse with full-bodied flavors of leather and earth.
#2 Viaje Oro Reserva VOR No. 5
This flavorful cigar has notes of leather, sweet spices and a cocoa-powder finish that walks a perfectly fine line between bitter and sweet. Few things in life are as pleasant as finding an unexpected gem, and the Viaje Oro Reserva VOR No. 5 truly fits the bill.
#1Cohiba Behike BHK 52
In 2010, which will likely go down as the year of the Cuban cigar, we smoked many fine Havana-made smokes, from majestic double coronas to bracing robustos, and found the quality of Cuban cigars to be at its best since the mid-1990s. And no cigar from Cuba—or from anywhere else for that matter—impressed our tasting panel as much as the Cohiba Behike BHK 52. This is a classic cigar. The shortish, fat smoke, made with an artful pigtail and clad in gorgeous Colorado wrapper of reddish brown, is a phenomenally rich, delicious smoke that more than lives up to the reputation of cigars with the name Cohiba. It is the finest cigar to come out of Cuba in a long time, and Cigar Aficionado’s top cigar of 2010.