My buddy Ghosty and I took our usual Friday trip to JR Cigars. He actually smoked the Ashton VSG that was part of the Traveling Humidor. Hopefully he will bless us with a review of that smoke. I picked up and smoked a lovely Don Tomas Cameroon, Perfecto #3. I think I’m in love. Lately […]
Cigar Purchases: Cigar Insider & Perelman’s Cyclopedia of Cigars
Not actually cigars that I’ve purchased but the purchases are cigar related. Cigar Insider Cigar Insider is an online, bi-weekly publication from Cigar Aficionado. It gives you cigar ratings, news and preview articles in upcoming issues of their print magazine. The coolest thing about the subscription is you get an online Humidor locker. Its more […]
Dominican Sweets & Carlos Torano 1916 Cameroon
I mentioned in a previous post that these cigars came my way from the HPSF Traveling humidor: Dominican Sweets – Back in the day, I use to smoke packs of Backwoods cigars that were vanilla flavored. It’s been a couple years since I’ve tried any kind of flavored cigar. I went in with an open […]
Site News: Comments
I’m working on configuring the blog so that comments are automatically posted instead of emailing me for approval before they are posted. Its just not very clear on what I have to do to enable comments without approval. If anyone is familiar with WordPress and knows where I’m supposed to set this, let me know. […]
News: Thank You for Smoking
I think they classify these types of movies as political satire right? The movie, which pokes fun at both sides of the issue, is based on a book, with the same title, by Christopher Buckley. Here is a brief little bit on the movie: Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, makes his living defending […]
Cigar Purchase: Punch Rare Corojo
If you know me, you know I love Punch cigars. If there is such a thing as a “Cigar Heaven” these cigars would be waiting for me there cause these are the cigars that I could smoke for an eternity. I’ll save the history lesson for when I publish a review. But this is a […]
La Escepcion – Series V – 2004
Here are the details: Origin: Honduras Length: 6.12 Ring: 50 Wrapper: Connecticut Binder: Connecticut Filler: Honduras/Nicaragua A little bit of history about La Escepcion. They are an old cuban named cigar by Jose Gener who also registered the Hoyo De Monterrey line. Each series of La Escpcion is limited to 150,000. The series re-started in […]
CigarNation Podcast
For those of you who are into listening to podcasts, there is a nice podcast called CigarNation. All things cigars. News, enjoyment, reviews, products, etc,. Its pretty funny and informative at the same time. They publish a new podcast on a weekly basis and the hosts are self described blue collar smokers. You can subscribe to […]
The Fabulous Story of the Cuban Cigar (DVD)
Wonderful documentary about the history of the Cuban Cigar. I’ve seen this a few dozen times (Netflix has it) and each time I learn something new about not only Cuban cigars but cigars in general. As a reviewer on Amazon points out, you gain more appreciation for the hard work and effort cigar rollers put […]
Free Cigar Oasis with Select Box Purchase
Thanks to =HPSF=Waldo for posting this on the HPSF forums: http://www.jrcigars.com/index.cfm?page=deals_oa_06no2 Anyone use an Oasis for their humidor?