During the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show, in Orlando, I was walking through the Drew Estate booth when suddenly a meat hook grabbed hold of my shoulder. I turned to see Willy Herrera towing over me with a smile on his face. It has been so long since I’ve last spoken with Willy that I completely […]
La Flor Dominicana (IPCPR 2012)
Litto Gomez of La Flor Dominicana joins us again for another year. Litto spends a few minutes with Brian talking about a few new things that LFD is bringing to the market starting with he Oro which comes in three sizes including Litto’s famous chisel format. All three sizes come in golden tubos and features […]
AJ Fernandez Cigars (IPCPR 2012)
The success of Stogie Review is never our’s alone. We have lots of help. For the second year in a row, we had a lot of help getting time with AJ Fernandez. Lots of people played a role in making it happen and bringing all of us together to talk about AJ’s newest releases like […]
RoMa Craft Tobac (IPCPR 2012)
Making their IPCPR debut is RoMa Craft Tobac. We kept trying to get the RoMa boys early and often with very little success. I can’t even count how many times we said “lets roll pass Skip’s, he can’t be busy” just to find out he was indeed busy. I think the closes we got was […]
La Palina (IPCPR 2012)
For me Bill Paley is a local guy. I remember seeing him sitting in cigar shops in the area before he had his own cigar line in La Palina. I always thought Bill looked a bit intimidating but he is in fact one of the nicest most approachable guys in the industry who has always […]
Johnny Soyak of Cigar in a Bottle
During the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show in Orlando, we bumped into Johnny Soyak, of Cigar in a Bottle, at the AJ Fernandez booth. Brian and I have been keeping an eye out for him since we first met him in Las Vegas, back in 2007. Johnny makes a unique product and houses a cigar inside […]
CAO Cigars (IPCPR 2012)
New and exciting things from our friends at CAO Cigars bro. The OSA line has been expanded to include two new sizes, Lot 46 and Lot T bro. Both of the new sizes are box pressed bro. Also being released this year is the new CAO Concert bro. I love that CAO learned a bit […]
11 Minutes with Pete Johnson (IPCPR 2012)
I’m going to rename Stogie Review to Tatuaje Central. LOL. The amount of interview footage we’ve produced over the years is by far the most we’ve covered anyone and thats just interview footage. Pete likes to talk and we like to record…perfect pairing. I mention this in the video but Pete looks really refreshed. The […]
Kurt Van Keppel of Xikar (IPCPR 2012)
During the 2012 IPCPR Convention in Orlando, Brian and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Kurt Van Keppel of Xikar. Kurt took us through all of the new additions to the Xikar product catalog and stressed that all new items were ready to ship right now. This was very refreshing considering many products […]
Arielle Ditkowich of La Sirena Cigars (IPCPR 2012)
During the second day of the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show, in Orlando, Brian and I had the pleasure of speaking with Arielle Ditkowich, Brand Manager of La Sirena Cigars. Arielle gave us the rundown of the new Merlion as well as shared with us a potential line extension in what may be called the Sea […]