Newcomer to the industry and the IPCPR 2017 trade show, Al Micallef really set out to make a splash with an expansive booth for his eponymous Micallef Cigar company. To start off the interview, Al tells us how he met his partners, the Gomez Sanchez Family about a year ago. He was so impressed with […]
IPCPR 2017: Wild Fire Ladies Cigar Society
You never know who you’ll run into walking the aisles of IPCPR. This year we ran into Brenda Scott of Wild Fire Ladies Cigar Society, and Justin and I thought it’d be fun to have a quick chat her about her group of cigar enthusiasts. They’re based out of the Dallas-Forth Worth area of Texas, […]
IPCPR 2017: Cigar Oasis
The Cigar Oasis booth looked (and sounded) a little different when we met up with Chaim Kohn at IPCPR. That no doubt has to do with this being Cigar Oasis’s 20th year in business. Chaim takes us on a quick product tour, starting with the Cigar Oasis Excel, the product that started it all. Then […]
IPCPR 2017: 13 Minutes with Pete Johnson
One of the interviews I look forward to every year at IPCPR is our annual chat with Pete Johnson of Tatuaje. And it felt like almost no time had passed since our last installment of the Minutes With Pete Johnson series. There he was behind the bar at the back center of the booth, leaning […]
IPCPR 2017: Ashton
We made our way back to the Ashton booth on the third day of IPCPR to talk to Mark Goldacker about the latest in the world of Ashton. The first thing we cover is the new size of the San Cristobal Quintessence, the Corona Gorda. (The original line of four sizes was introduced last year.) […]
IPCPR 2017: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
This year we didn’t sit down with with Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust until the 3rd day of IPCPR. He was self-deprecating as always, but you don’t have to brag when your booth is constantly full of people. Initially he was a little annoyed by the trade show venue change up, but after […]
IPCPR 2017: Nomad
It’s always fun stopping by to talk to Fred Rewey, owner of Nomad cigars and several entertaining social media accounts. If you can believe it, Fred’s been at it, doing cigars his way for five years now. To celebrate that significant accomplishment, he’s releasing five-year old Anniversary edition of the Classic Dominican Line in the […]
IPCPR 2017: United Cigar Group & Selected Tobacco
You can tell from the quiet introduction that our interview with Oliver Nivaud of United Cigar Group began the third day of IPCPR 2017 for us. Oliver gives the full tour of the product in the United booth, starting off with the Dos Hombres Cabinet. The Dos Hombres Cabinet is being relaunched with a Dominican […]
IPCPR 2017: Twin Engine Coffee
We dropped by the Twin Engine Coffee booth at IPCPR 2017 just in time to prevent an almost certain coma. As we raised our caffeine levels Colin Ganley told us about developments in the Nicaraguan coffee world. But also in some news about coffee from Cuba. One of those developments is a K-Cup assembly line […]
IPCPR 2017: Fratello
IPCPR: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Stogie Review. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new cigars, to seek out new herfs and new blends, to boldly smoke tobaccos no one has smoked before. Cue the music, we’re sitting down in the Fratello booth with the cigar world’s rocket scientist, Omar […]