If we were to play a little word association game – one where I said What comes to mind when I say “Cigars and Coffee”, I think, for the most part, we would all be on the same page. For me, I think of Connecticut cigars. EP Carrillo New Wave Oliva Connecticut Reserve Black Label […]
EP Carrillo New Wave – Connecticut
Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing the new EP Carrillo Elencos. This week, Jerry was slated to tackle the EP Carrillo New Wave Connecticut. Unfortunately, for him, Jerry ran into some video problems and had to scrap the review. Fortunately, for me, it meant that I was then able to smoke this fantastic […]
Mike’s New and Wanted Stuff
Not much to this writeup but I wanted to get something up for you this week as I am suffering from allergies something fierce. I wish I could have done a cigar review but I don’t want to do one just on my notes without tasting the cigar I am reviewing. I think it does […]
Montecristo New York Connoisseur Edition
Wrapper : Ecuadorian Habano Binder : Nicaraguan Filler : Dominican Source : Sent as a blogger sample from Altadis Welcome to my first cigar review of 2012. I figured I would do something a little special for all my fans so we are going to take a look at the Montecristo New York Connoisseur Edition. […]
Tour of the New and Improved Famous Smoke Shop
Can you believe there is still video from the Famous Smoke Shop Cigar Expo 2011 (Cigarnival)? For a small two day event with crowds of people, I’m very happy with what we walked away with, in terms of video. In earlier posts, and in replies to comments, I made mention of getting video footage of […]
IPCPR 2011: A Look at the new CAO OSA
CAO to Debut New ‘Real’ Ad Campaign
New CAO Campaign To Feature Series of CAO Consumers Nashville, January 7, 2010: CAO, one of the world’s foremost premium cigar manufacturers, announced today that it will debut a new ad campaign in the January/February issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine. With the tagline “CAO REAL” the cutting-edge cigar manufacturer will roll out a series of […]
El Baton by JC Newman Cigars (Guest Review)
For this weeks guest review spot, we have our good friends Tom and Ed. Like usual, the guys join us from Ed’s shop, St Pete Pipe and Cigar, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The feature cigar is the El Baton by JC Newman Cigars. The guys explain that the vitola is described as a Double Torpedo […]
New Palio Cutters and Esencia Sizes
Marc Aub shows us around his booth at IPCPR and his new cutters and new sizes of the Esencia.
Nub Gets New Rolling Tables
If you recall, last year I did a three part series on the birth of a rolling table, so I wont bore you with how the original two tables came to be. Several weeks ago I got a call from Sam Leccia, of Nub Cigar, asking me if I knew anyone that could make him […]