Earlier this week I was browsing through Facebook updates when I came across an interesting teaser from Rob Heming, host of the Blowin’ Smoke Podcast. Rob said that a source informed him that Sam Leccia would be making an annoucement the following day regarding his return to the cigar industry. Since Sam’s departure from Oliva, […]
Week in Smoke – TGT Edition
With a break in travel I thought I’d get up to speed on another edition of Week in Smoke. Had a wonderful family reunion in Las Vegas…sprinkled in a little bit of work but got to do a lot of exciting things with Gracie. If you’re looking to do family things in Las Vegas I […]
Punch Rare Corojo 10th Anniversary
When General Cigar shipped me a five pack of the new Punch Rare Corojo 10th Anniversary edition cigars, I decided to let them rest a while. I knew that probably meant that Jerry would beat me to the review (he did, sorta), but I wanted to give them a fair shake. So far my experience […]
Gurkha Micro Batch TPB-1 – First Impressions
Well here I am for my Tuesday slot, that I keep forgetting about, and I am thinking I am going to keep this format of just doing a first impressions video and letting the video do the talking (or maybe not). Here is a bit about the cigar copied from CI’s website since they are […]
Augusto Reyes Grand Cru
Wrapper : Dominican Binder : mystery Filler : Dominican Piloto Cubano, Cubano, Criollo ’98 Source : cigarsinternational.com with my own money Well thanx to Walt for pointing these out to me (and getting me in even more trouble with the wife) so I can do another series type review for your enjoyment. This time I […]
EP Carrillo Edicion Limitada 2010 (Blind Tasting)
A few weeks back I was sitting in Sir Stogies talking to the owner, Tim. We were hashing out the details of another Blind Tasting with a timeframe of the weekend after Cigarfest. As the days ticked away, we firmed up our plans and Tim began signing up customers to participate in the tasting. Rather […]
Zino Platinum Z-Class 550 R
A couple of weeks ago a brand new Zino Platinum cigar joined the 8 year old Crown and Scepter lines. It’s called the Z-Class, and there’s no chance you’ll confuse it for its older brothers. But I’ll let the very informative press release introduce you: The Zino Platinum Crown and Scepter series launched in 2003 […]
General Cigar Releases “El Perrito”
Ever since becoming a father I find myself gravitating to small cigars. I like the smaller sticks for those random bits of time between naps where I can step outside with the baby monitor. More often then not, I avoid cigars in these glimpses of free time because I never know how much time I […]
Augusto Reyes Epicur
Wrapper : Ecuadorian Connecticut seed Binder : mystery Filler : Dominican Source : Cigars International with my own money Well thanx to Walt for pointing these out to me (and getting me in even more trouble with the wife) so I can do another series type review for your enjoyment. This time I am going […]
Women of Cigarfest 2011
Kelli Mackenzie as the Pirate’s Gold Girl It is that time of year again for us to roll out our annual Women of Cigarfest post. Like in years past, Cigars International had many attractive women on hand to distribute cigars, sell merchandise, or make themselves available for photos. One thing I noticed this year was […]