Brand: Gran Habano Azteca Blender: George Rico Vitola: Toro Ring Gauge: 52ish Length: 6.00 Wrapper: San Andres Valley – Mexico (Double Maduro) Binder: San Andres Valley – Mexico Filler: Panamanian and Nicarguan Origin: Honduras MSRP: Unknown Purchased From: Sample from Kensington Tobacconist Last week while making my usual Friday afternoon visit to Kensington Tobacconist, I […]
Alec Bradley Prensado (Guest Review)
A Note from Tom: Ed and I are back once again for our monthly guest spot here on The Stogie Review. It’s hard to believe we’ve been here for two years! If you watched our January video, I put Ed on the spot and asked what his top cigar was for 2009. My choice was […]
Tatuaje RC184 (Guest Review)
This review comes courtesy of Rich (BootyRock) from the Stogie Review Fan Forums The RC cigars (RC meaning “Retro Cuban”) are two unique figurados. They feature half of the cigar wrapped in foil (the head), and the names (numbers) relate to the size in millimeters. Blended to be milder than the regular Miami line. Little […]
Anatomy of a Cigar
Over the past year or two, we have seen an explosion in the way cigars are marketed. In addition to tying a persona to the brand, some manufacturers are giving you an inside look into what makes up their product. Two great examples of this can be seen during presentations by Jose Blanco, of La […]
Mederos Fifty 3
Brand: Mederos Blender: Carlos Mederos Vitola: Fifty 3 (Torpedo) Ring Gauge: 52 Length: 6.125 Wrapper: Nicaraguan Corojo (Jalapa) Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Nicaragua Origin: Nicaragua MSRP: Unknown Purchased From: Samples from Mederos Cigars & Jerry Cruz Brand: The Mederos Fifty line is one that features six sizes, all residing in the fifty ring gauge range. Up […]
Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Champagne (Guest Review)
This review comes courtesy of Daniel (Dalamscius) from the Stogie Review Fan Forums Cigar: Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary Champagne Drink: Messias 2004 Late Bottled Vintage Tawny Port Wrapper: Triple-Fermented Connecticut Binder: Cuban-Seed Nicaraguan Filler: Cuban-Seed Nicaraguan Vitola: Robusto 5×54 Price Range: $5.00 – $6.50 Burn Time: ~1.5 hours The Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary line was […]
Cigar Shop Primer
Over the past year, online cigar sales have been booming. As a result, some local cigar shops are experiencing a downturn in sales. In addition to tough times at the cash register, the popularity of discount online retailers have kept many would-be customers from ever visiting a local shop in the first place. Due to […]
Perdomo Reserve Champagne (Short Ashes)
Shortly after getting into the hobby of cigars, I discovered a brand that I came to smoke fairly frequently. That brand was Perdomo. I don’t recall which vitola it was that first attracted me to the brand, but I do recall ordering several samplers from Cigars International, in part, due to Perdomo being in the […]
Accessory Review: Travel Humidor (Otterbox and Xikar)
When it comes to the hobby of cigar smoking, we all tend to follow along the same path early on in our hobby. For me, I started off storing my cigars in a small desktop humidor that I purchased from ebay. Within a month or so, I outgrew that humidor and moved to creating a […]
CAO La Traviata (Short Ashes)
Back in August, Brian, Jerry, and I were fortunate enough to attend the 2009 IPCPR Trade Show in New Orleans. One of the samples we were able to pick up was the highly anticipated CAO La Traviata. Some time after the trade show, Brian and Jerry got together for a Herfin’ Heads video where they […]