Origin : Nicaragua Wrapper : Nicaragua Binder : Nicaragua Filler : Nicaragua Source : gifted from Hank at Oliveros Our cigar for today is the Oliveros King Havano Claro in the Monarch size. These cigars are Nicaraguan puros and feature an all ligero filler from three regions, Esteli, Condega, and Jalapa. They are available in […]
XIKAR & Drew Estate Accessory Series
Kansas City, Missouri – August 5th, 2010. XIKAR Inc., makers of the highly rated Cigar Accessories and HC Series Cigars has signed a Licensing Agreement with Nicaraguan based Drew Estate, which became effective August, 2010. “This new joint venture speaks volumes about our mutual admiration given what Drew Estate has done in the marketplace with […]
El Primer Mundo Liga Miami Toro
With this year’s IPCPR trade show looming on the horizon, details on new cigars and sample pre-release sticks have been making the rounds. One of the early release cigars that has been spotted online a lot recently is the El Primer Mundo Liga Miami. And thanks to Sean Williams, owner of the brand, and fellow […]
Five More Questions
Thanks to everyone for their comment love on my first five questions. The e-mails started rolling in and so here are five more questions. This time around the focus has to do with storage and humidification questions. Do machine made cigars need humidification? What the fuck did I do to my Cigar Oasis Ultra? Which […]
Five Questions
Between traveling and getting over whatever I got in Las Vegas, I really haven’t had the time to do the needed work for a review. Instead I go old school and do YQMA solo. I tackle such hard hitting questions like why do we bash that “lifestyle” publication and why don’t we explain how we […]
La Gloria Cubana Artesanos de Tabaqueros (Guest Joint Review)
Today I have for you a joint review I did with Mike over at mikesstogies.com . I will warn you, the video is pretty bad as we did this through Skype and for some reason the recording software did not record my local stream at the same quality as Mike’s. I also do not know […]
Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ Natural Belicoso
Origin : Miami, FL Wrapper : Nicaraguan Corojo Binder : Nicaraguan Filler : Nicaraguan Source : purchased myself I am going to review a cigar that has not been done for a couple years here on Stogie Review and that is the Don Pepin Garcia Series JJ belicoso size. Jerry did a previous review of […]
Third Annual Smoke a JJ for JJ Day
July 22nd is the 3rd Annual Smoke a JJ for JJ Day. It is in celebration of my Little Robusto, my son JJ, who as many of you know, passed away from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) while at daycare when he was 3.5 months old. This July 22nd would’ve been his 3rd birthday. The […]
Cigar Factory Tres Hermanos Numero Tres
IPCPR is a little less than three weeks away, and the preparations for the upcoming Twitter BOTL Cocktail Hour have got me thinking more an more about New Orleans. In the moments not taken up by my day job, and moonlighting as a cigar reviewer, I’ve been remembering the last year’s little after-show adventures and […]
CAO HQ – Unveiled
There I was at CAO Headquarters in Nashville TN. Looking around I saw more professional media covering the event. Of course you’ve seen that Cigar Dave was broadcasting live from the show. There was also Thor from Cigar Press magazine, the guys from Sucker Punch Sallys filming and I’m pretty sure someone from Cigar Aficionado […]