My Father Blue was announced in March 2025 and debuted live at the PCA Trade Show in New Orleans the following month. The cigar marks a departure from their Nicaraguan factory with this becoming their first Honduras made cigar out of their new factory that opened in 2024. That factory gives the company 3 manufacturing locales including some Doral, Florida a subsection of Miami.
The company purchased some 1.3 square miles of farmland that hadn’t been used to grow tobacco in the past. According to an article in Cigar Aficionado, Jaime Garcia the son of Don Pepin Garcia sand the land was surrounded by rivers and contains a richness. The farmland also contains 3 different types of soils allowing for the growth of stronger and softer tobaccos and reminds Jaime of San Luis in Cuba. Don Pepin however at first was skeptical and not a fan of Honduran tobacco though he went on to say that when blended it reminded him of a Cuban cigar from the good times.
Of all the cigars announced for release at the aforementioned trade show I was looking forward to this the most, but does it live up to the hype?
Cigar Review: My Father Blue
Size: 6 x 54 (Toro)
Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Rosado
Binder: Honduras
Fillers: Honduras
Factory: My Father Cigars Honduras
Release Date: July 2025
Production: Regular
Box Size: 20
The Cigar: I think from now on I might refer to My Father original as It’s a Girl due to the pink bands, and the new My Father Blue as It’s a Boy due to its blue bands. I remember when the first My Father branded cigar came out and how the band popped, and here we are in 2025 and I still love the clean, slightly busy look that has become a classic. The primary band has the My Father logo, a secondary band denoters Blue MMXXV (2025) and the cigar is capped (or footed) off with a blue ribbon. The wrapper which if it wasn’t for a press release I would have guessed to be broadleaf has some bruising (darker spots) and a decent amount of oils. In the hand the cigar is firm and with a nice weight though the foot feels slightly underfilled.
The Taste: The cold draw has a touch of mocha to it and some underlying leather aspects to hit but they are in the distant background. The foot of the cigar has a wonderful mocha to it as well. The cold draw to me is very reminiscent of El Rey de los Habanos another My Father made cigar and I am eager to light this up.
Once the cigar is toasted and lit there is a nice amount of smoke production and the cigar sees notes of cedar, raisins and a slight mocha. What is missing is that classic burst of what I call Pepin spice that seems in my eyes to be the signature of My Father. As the first third comes to a close cedar notes are dominant and the retrohale has a caramel sweetness with a touch of citrus.
Moving into the second third the flavor of the cigar is mild while the strength is medium. There is some cocoa and cedar present but neither are vibrant and as we cross over the halfway point some nuttiness and a slightly floral component begin to emerge. The retrohale continues to serve up some citric notes along the lines of orange rind and there is a very subtle pepper with an abundance of nuttiness.
The last third of the My Father Blue sees notes of coffee develop in the background with continued cedar and nuttiness. The citric notes of the first two thirds are non-existent in the final third and the retrohale sees the development of some white pepper notes with nuttiness and some additional coffee notes.
Conclusion: I have now smoked 3 cigars of this release and each one has grown on my considerably. Since I first posted the cigar on my Instagram I was contacted by someone I consider a friend that I go way back with and he asked me for my thoughts. The first cigar I told him was one dimensional and plugged so it got an incomplete in terms of a score. I told him after the second cigar I smoked what rating it was leaning to and he said he believed I was awarding legacy points. This is a valid point, if I removed the My Father band would the cigar still get the same score. I am now three cigars in to my journey and the latter 2 have had perfect draws and construction. It’s a hand-made product so things happen, and that first cigar is tossed to the wayside like a russian judges score.
When I review a cigar, flavor makes up 80% of my score as I don’t complain about having to touch up a cigar, or a thick combustion line. It’s the taste that brings me back time and time again. I laugh when I sit at a cigar bar and at a former co-worker who would touch up his cigar for the entire duration because its off by 3mm from being perfectly straight and would consider the featured image of this post as an uneven burn. Light your cigar, toss the lighter and stop being so anal.
So back to the My Father Blue and its flavor. What I described to my friend as one dimensional is better described as a cigar that doesn’t feature any bold flavors. it could be because the farm, Finca La Opulencia is only 3 years old and the tobacco is young. It also lacks that Pepin spice I look for when I light up a cigar from My Father and comes off as a velvet like meal in a restaurant catering to the silver-haired cottonheads that have dinner at 4pm. I kept waiting for more flavor to materialize but it just never happened. I am sure I will smoke another at breakfast, because I am closer to the early-bird special age than I would like to admit.
Score: 87
Price: $12.00 (Before any local or state taxes)
You can find My Father Blue at Small Batch Cigar and if you use the coupon code BARRELBURNER you can save 10% off your order.
