It’s been a both an excellent and a horrible couple of cigar weeks for yours truly. As clock ticked away the final days and hours of 2008, I lit up some truly excellent cigars. I also spent around a week’s worth of time sans stogie as wrestled with a sinus infection, and now a chest […]
Stogie Poll: Smoking while you are sick
As you may know, a couple of weeks ago I came down with a nasty cold and had to take a little hiatus from Stogie Review and cigars in general. While sick, I got an email from Keith asking if we smoked cigars while we were ill. Shortly after receiving the email I ran an […]
CAO Lx2
I want to preface this review the same way I did in the video. These Lx2 were gifted to me by Jon Huber of CAO Cigars. Jon was nice enough to send me a few Lx2’s to try after having a conversation on Twitter about how they can be hard to find and how I’ve […]
Padron Londres Maduro (Short Ashes)
Not having an article in mind to write about this weekend, I decided to put together a short ashes video in its place. This video features the old stand by of many people, the Padron Londres Maduro. MP3 Version: Right Click > Save As When you are done with the video check out the original […]
CNN Profiles J.C. Newman Cigar Co.
I was checking my email and came across an interesting press release from J.C. Newman Cigar Co. It seems that they have been recently profiled on CNN. The video runs less than three minutes and shows how the company is doing their best to keep their employees working during these tough economic times. Embedded video […]
CAO Italia (Short Ashes)
Due to the holidays and lots of running around, I wasn;t able to set aside the time required to do a full blown review this week. Instead I opted to go with a Short Ashes review of a cigar that was featured in the past. The cigar of choice was the CAO Italia. MP3 Version: […]
Arturo Fuente Añejo “The Shark” (Gues Review)
This guest review comes to us by way of our good friend Rich Meade of the Stogie Review Fan Forums. Today, I’m doing a cigar that is a bit of an anomaly. Being born out of the result of a hurricane in 1998 that devastated the plantations of Chateu de la Fuente. The result of […]