I hope everybody had a fun New Years Eve and ample opportunity to recover from the festivities the following day. My holiday was thoroughly enjoyable, spent sipping champagne and puffing on cigars into the wee hours of the morning. The icing on the cake was turning off the alarm clock and sleeping off the consequences […]
H. Upmann Cabinet Selección Robusto
I picked up a couple of these guys after a local tobacconist told me these were kind of hard to come by. As the story goes, not every shop can get their hands on these cigars, and as a condition of getting them as a shop owner, you can’t advertise that you have them. It […]
Alec Bradley Trilogy Authentic Corojo
Wow, this week was a bit of a challenge, and I’m just talking about picking the cigar to review! Every time I had set my mind on a cigar to review, I found Walt and Jerry had already covered it. Sometimes twice! Of course, strictly speaking we don’t have a policy here about never reviewing […]
Gran Habano VL Gran Churchill
Now that I’ve recovered from a handy little bout with bronchitis, its time to review that Gran Habano I mentioned in comments of Walt’s Corojo #5 review. I’ve been a big fan of the Corojo #5, so I’ve really been looking forward to checking out the VL. The VL stands for “Very Limited” which is […]
CAO Italia Ciao
I know, I know, I promised to review a Gran Habano cigar this week. Well the thing is, I’ve been down with a nasty little bit of bronchitis for the past week, so I’m pulling my notes for a cigar review I planned to do on my home blog. I fact, my friends over at […]
Palmas Puro Maduro Petite Corona
Well, I’m a little late getting this review up, but for good reason. It seemed all the forces of the cigar universe bended their will against it. And in that regard, it kind of reminds me of the cigar up for review this week. But we’ll get to the similarity between the smoking experience and […]
Avalon Honeyboy Lancero
It looks like I’m beginning to get a bit of a reputation. (I’m not sure if it’s a good one or not, but a bad one can be more fun than a good one.) Because when Tom Ramsey of Avalon Cigars was planning on passing through Atlanta to sign up a handful of new customers […]
Illusione ~68~ Bombone
It’s been a good year for my cigar collection, and a good year for road trips. It seems like everyone was climbing into their chariot of choice and driving really long distances, well, just for the heck of it. One such trip is the reason I’m bringing this review to you today. A fine BOTL […]
Don Kiki Green Label Torpedo
I’ve been eying these cigars ever since I brought them back from RTDA. Unlike the other ill-gotten gains I brought back from that trip, I didn’t get these cigars from the show. These guys were handed out by one of the generous people from the Cigar Live forum I met at a herf at an […]
Graycliff Blue Label PG
A while back one of the Stogie Review readers asked us to review some more high-end cigars. Well, as luck would have it, I recently came across a great deal on a cigar with a normaly big price tag and an equally large reputation: Graycliff. Perhaps you’ve heard of them? 😉 The question is, is […]