又到了美国雪茄专业期刊《雪茄爱好者》每年发布年度雪茄排行榜的时间了，在经过对几百支雪茄的盲评测试后，杂志社已经框定了年度前25名雪茄的名单。

经验丰富的盲评小组全年品鉴了来自世界各地的不同尺寸、形状和强度的各种品牌的雪茄，罗列出一份高评分的雪茄清单。在这份清单里，优中选优，评选出冠军雪茄和前25名雪茄。为了保证测评的客观性，测评小组品鉴的雪茄已经被取下了烟标，替换为数字代码。这些雪茄中有25支雪茄脱颖而出，成为2021年最好的一批雪茄。

预计1月第二周公布排行榜，哪些雪茄值得品鉴，哪些雪茄将加冕为王，答案很快揭晓。

具体时间表如下：

1月10日周一，第8、9、10名。

1月11日周二，第5、6、7名。

1月12日周三，第2、3、4名。

1月13日周四，年度第一名。

1月14日周五，第11到25名。

届时每天上午十点，杂志社会在官网揭晓榜单，还会上传杂志社的执行编辑大卫·萨沃纳和总编辑格雷戈里·莫托拉的品鉴视频。

上一年度的最佳雪茄称号授予了多米尼加出产的EPC的誓约前传，这是资深雪茄制造商埃内斯托·佩雷斯-卡里略的作品，98分的盲评得分让盲评小组非常震惊。读者们可以看看下表，过去几年杂志社评选出的年度最佳雪茄，并尝试猜测一下接下来会发生什么。

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After smoking hundreds of cigars through our blind tasting process, Cigar Aficionado has narrowed it down to the Top 25 cigars of 2021.

The veteran tasting panel smokes cigars from a vast assortment of brands in different sizes, shapes and strengths from all over the world throughout the year. Then a list of top-scoring cigars are created for a test of champions, to see which cigars are the best of the best, worthy of inclusion in the Top 25. In order to keep the tasting completely objective, the band (or bands) of each cigar are removed by the tasting coordinator and replaced with a code before being given to the panel for assessment. Twenty-five of these cigars stood out from the rest as this year’s best.

The prestigious list will be revealed during the second week of January. Which cigars will make the cut, and which cigar will be crowned the king? Find out soon.

The reveal schedule for the Top 25 list is as follows:

Monday, January 10: Cigars 10, 9 and 8

Tuesday, January 11: Cigars 7, 6 and 5

Wednesday, January 12: Cigars 4, 3 and 2

Thursday, January 13: The 2021 Cigar of the Year

Friday, January 14: Cigars 11 through 25

Join us every day at 10 am to see each stage of the reveal, complete with video reviews from executive editor David Savona and managing editor Gregory Mottola.

The 2020 Cigar of the Year came out of the Dominican Republic from veteran cigarmaker Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, whose E.P. Carrillo Pledge Prequel astounded the panel with 98 points. Have a look at all of the Cigars of the Year from years past and try to guess what comes next.