Last week I received a tweet from @czerbe asking if I was planning on attending a Studio Tobac event in the area. Initially I was on the fence about attending but decided to head out and make an evening out of it. I wound up having a great time and was handed a pre-release sample […]
1143 Seconds with Pete Johnson
Last week, the night before I left for an overseas business trip, I sat down with Pete Johnson at a Tatuaje Cigars event hosted by Holt’s Cigar Company in Northeast Philadelphia. We talked about a lot of things going on in the Tatuaje universe, including the upcoming Cojonu 2012s, future installments of the Monster series, […]
La Gloria Cubana Artesanos Retro Especiale
Wrapper : Honduran Connecticut Binder : Mexican and Nicaraguan – double binder Filler : Nicaraguan and Dominican ligero plus Nicaraguan and Dominican proprietary tobacco Source : bought at local b&m Today we are going to take a look at the La Gloria Cubana Artesanos Retro Especiale in the Habanero size (6×52). This cigar is also […]
An Evening with Benji Menendez
Last week Benji Menendez was in town visiting both locations of W.Curtis Draper. Since I had to cancel my participation in the blogger trip with General Cigar down to the Dominican Republic I made plans with the folks at General to get time with Benji while he was visiting. I’ll be honest. I wasn’t sure […]
EP Carrillo Maduro (Short Ashes)
This week, to put it simply, has been an absolute mess. After dealing with our massive data loss and the stress of getting everything up and operational again, I wasn’t much in the mood for recording a review for today. Because slacking off wasn’t an option (how could I possibly slack off when all of […]
Casa Miranda – First Impressions
Wrapper : Ecuadorian Habano Binder : Nicaraguan Filler : Nicaraguan Source : gifted from Rene Castenada Cigar Today I have the Casa Miranda in the torpedo size (6×52). This is available in a robusto (5×50) and a toro (6×52) also. This stick was gifted to me up at Cigar Expo by Rene Castenada. I only […]
San Lotano Oval by A.J. Fernandez
Switching things up a little bit this week, I decided to record my first video cigar review. I really appreciate the great feedback you all have given me for my first two written reviews, but several people asked me to try my hand at video reviews as well. So, I figured I’d give it a […]
Your Question, My Answers (YQMA) Episode 2.04
A few weeks ago, Jerry, Brian, Mike, and I sat down and recorded another episode of YQMA. Due to some time constraints it took us a little longer to get this episode put together than usual. Like most of our recent episodes of YQMA, this one has a variety of humorous moments in addition to […]
Thunder
Today I have for you the Thunder by Nimish Desai. I am going to let the video speak for me today, sorry to the writing lovers. I will say that I enjoyed this cigar but with the power it has, I would not be able to smoke it every day. It is very impressive with […]
Black Pedro by Felipe Gregorio (First Impressions)
Earlier this week I received a surprise package from Felipe Gregorio containing three cigars. The cigars in the package were Black Pedro vitolas (Robusto, Torpedo, and Churchill). A quick Google search didn’t net much in terms of information but I did find a short Youtube video from Felipe Gregorio. In that video I learned that […]