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 […]
Ask The Chief
To help us answer a question from Episode 203 of Your Questions, My Answers. We turn to Skip Martin aka Chief Hava of CroMagnon Cigars to talk about how leasing factories work. We also talk about whats new with CroMagnon as well as his take on on Jose Blanco coming out of retirement and joining […]
Your Questions, My Answers – Episode 203
Back again with another episode of Your Questions, My Answers. In this episode we talk about the recent news of Jose Blanco joining Joya de Nicaragua and the impact it will have. From their we banter back and forth about smoking lounge etiquette and whether bringing your own cigars is acceptable or in bad taste. […]
W.Curtis Draper – The Next Chapter
Earlier this year the DC Location of W.Curtis Draper pretty much became a non-smoking cigar shop due to complaints from tenants (a law firm) that was situated above the shop. W.Curtis Draper had been at its 14th Street location for almost 25 years. There have been a lot of changes for my home shop this […]
La Casita Criolla
The newly release La Casita Criolla has been the buzz in the online cigar world way before it was released at IPCPR. The all Connecticut broadleaf cigar interested many and perplexed others who weren’t quite sure if an all broadleaf cigar would work. Would the La Casita Criolla wbe one of those “too much of […]
RabbitAir – Sneak Peek unboxing
Welcome to a short and sweet unboxing video of the RabbitAir SPA-780A that I was kindly sent by them to do a review for all you guys and gals. This turned into a basic unboxing video with a couple details because they already had the whole thing set up for me to use. In the […]
Week in Smoke – TGT Edition
Its great to be back to regular posts. IPCPR was fun and all but it was a bit draining encoding/uploading those videos so its great to be back with another episode of Week in Smoke. Lots of new cigars making their debut on Week in Smoke with a spattering of cigars making a repeat appearance. […]
Tatuaje Series P – 2011 version
Wrapper : Ecuadorian Sumatra Filler : Nicaraguan Cuban Sandwich (long and medium filler) Source : bought myself After a brief hiatus due to the awesome IPCPR coverage I am back with a review of the new Tatuaje Series P in the toro size. As many of you know, the Series P was reviewed before on […]
IPCPR 2011 – Reinado
Brian Hewitt fails when it comes to memorizing the Stogie Review Cigar Index and prior IPCPR coverage. LOL. While we didn’t get around to actually talking to Antonio Liam last year at IPCPR, we did do a quick booth tour and I did a review of his Reinado line in October of last year. Although […]
IPCPR 2011 – Miami Cigar Co
Lots of promising new things coming from Miami Cigar Company in 2011. Not only did we get Nestor Miranda (with better audio than a couple years ago) but we also go to spend a few minutes with Arielle Ditkowich. Arielle talks about the new extensions to her La Sirena brand while Nestor tells us about […]