过去一年里，Cigar Aficionado杂志的编辑们品鉴和测试了700多支雪茄，每一支雪茄都写了测评笔记，以及最终得分。现在，是时候揭晓2024年度最棒的25支雪茄了。杂志社将在12月16日，也就是周一，开始陆续发布年度25强雪茄榜单。

所有参加测评的雪茄都是由杂志社指定的某位不参加测评的人员购买的，所有雪茄的烟标都会揭掉。重新贴上数字标签，交给品鉴小组进行盲评。品鉴小组成员不知晓雪茄的品牌、原产地、烟叶混合、价格以及任何有影响的信息，独立品吸后进行打分。

一款雪茄想要进入前25名，必须在第一次盲评中取得好成绩。分数较高的那些雪茄会由杂志社的专家组再次盲评，看看哪些雪茄可以提供始终如一的卓越性能，哪些雪茄值得排名第一。

今年将是CigarAficionado杂志社组织的第20次年度评选活动，所有25名雪茄将刊登在2025年的1、2月份双月刊杂志上。

2023年，富恩特巨著X系列的城堡珍藏被评选为年度第一名，今年花落谁家，让我们拭目以待。12月16日，欢迎登录CigarAficionado官网查询。

After smoking and testing more than 700 cigars throughout the year, the panel of cigar-loving editors from Cigar Aficionado magazine have finished their tastings, assembled their notes and finalized their scores. Now, it’s nearly time to unveil the Top 25, the very best cigars of 2024. We will begin our countdown on Monday, December 16, and new cigars will be revealed all week long.

The testing has been thorough: as with every cigar appearing in the tasting section of Cigar Aficionado (and Cigar Insider, our twice-monthly cigar newsletter) all of these cigars have been tested blind. That means they were purchased by our tasting coordinator, given a code that only he knows, stripped of their bands and then rebanded with a generic label concealing the cigar’s identity. The cigars are then given to the tasting panel of editors (the coordinator is not a member of the panel, as he holds the code) and the tasters rate the cigars blind, not knowing the name, country of origin, tobacco blend, price or any other prejudicial information about the cigar. The cigars are then given a score.

For a cigar to appear on the Top 25, it has to first score well in one of our blind tastings. The top cigars are resmoked by our panel (again, they are smoked blind) to find which ones stand out from the pack, which can deliver a consistently excellent performance and which single cigar deserves to be ranked No. 1.

This will be the 20th time Cigar Aficionado has named a Cigar of the Year. The Top 25 debuted in the Jan./Feb. 2005 issue of the magazine.

Last year, the Fuente Fuente OpusX Reserva d’Chateau was named No. 1. To find out who will be No. 1 this year, visit CigarAficionado.com the week of December 16.