Its been excruciatingly hot this week with the temperatures in the high 90s and the heat index around 106-107, so my cigar smoking has, understandably, been reduced. Still, even with my cut back in smoking, I was able to smoke some pretty interesting cigars. Here is a good sampling of some of the cigars I […]
AJ Fernandez Pinolero Maduro Toro
AJ Fernandez released the Pinolero in 2012 as a more Cubanesque blend for their line up. In 2013, they released a maduro version with a special proprietary maduro wrapper grown in Nicaragua. The Toro retails for about $9.00 and the blend also comes in a robusto, churchill and torpedo. The cigar had a good draw […]
BEN’S WEEK IN SMOKE NO. 5 – THE BAYOU EDITION
Drew Estate Unicos A This was a real treat for me. It was my birthday earlier last week and a good friend of mine gave me this cigar to celebrate my birthday. He won these from Drew Estate from a contest they were running at the Chattanooga Tweetup a few years ago and saved them […]
Senorial Corona Gorda No. 5
Jose Blanco, formerly of La Aurora and Joya de Nicaragua, has brought out his own cigar called Senorial. This cigar is the first from his new cigar company, Las Cumbres Tabaco, and was released in June 2014. Wrapper: Ecuadorian Habano Binder: Esteli, Nicaragua Filler: Dominican Piloto Cubano and Dominican Corojo This cigar was extremely well made and the […]
CLE Eiroa CBT Maduro Prensado
CLE Cigars is releasing a maduro version of their successful Eiroa line called the Eiroa CBT Maduro. They are being released at the 2014 IPCPR show and feature a capa (wrapper), banda (binder) and tripa (filler) (CBT) all composed of maduro tobacco. They haven’t let anyone in on what type of tobacco they use, just […]
La Palina Goldie Laguito Especial
La Palina Goldie Laguito Especial was released earlier this year as the third vitola in the Goldie line following the No. 2 and the No. 5. The Goldie line is a tribute to women in the cigar industry and named after Goldie Paley, Sam Paley’s wife, the founder of La Palina Cigars in 1896. Rolled […]
Punch Gusto
As you might have noticed, we have been doing several reviews lately of cigars that have been around quite awhile. Most of these cigars are cigars we reviewed when we first started reviewing or are cigars we smoked a lot of when we first started smoking cigars. There were two different cigar brands I used […]
Is Aging Cigars Worth it? 1998 Punch Churchill
I really don’t like posting reviews on cigars that many of you can’t get for one reason or another, but I always seem to get the question on whether aging cigars is worth or not. My answer is always the same. It depends. Usually cigars mellow out and get smoother as they age so if […]
Ben’s Week in Smoke No. 4 – The Bayou Edition
It’s been awhile since I’ve done one these so I figured this would be a great time to do one as our temps have been in the 90s locally. As the heats rises, I find myself smoking less and less full bodied cigars as the can be a bit over powering. Same goes for my […]
Eiroa Prensado
In 2013, CLE released two new cigars: CLE Plus and the Eiroa. I first tried the Eiroa over the winner at the Cigar Lounge of Starkville in Starkville, MS. They had two size available at the time so I bought both to try out. While hanging out there, I first smoked the the Eiroa Prensado. It is […]