While searching through my email late last night, I came across a press release from J.C. Newman Cigars. You may remember my last post about this company and how they are doing all they can for their employees during these tough economic times. This time they are visited by brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber as […]
Stogie Review New Smoker Sampler
Not terribly long ago we received a voicemail entry from Dave Hanifan in regards to coming up with a Stogie Review sampler for a new cigar smoker as well as an intermediate smoker. During the recording of Episode 25 we didn’t do such a great job of answering the question as it was asked, and […]
Altadis Cigars News Article
Cigar Challenge Complete (Sort Of)
If you’ve been following along over the past few weeks as I’ve stumbled my way out of retirement – you may recall a challenge I issued myself just this past week. In an effort to dig myself out of a Cigar Rut, I wanted to smoke Three New-To-Me Cigars this week. I feel obligated to […]
Walt’s Week in Smoke – Vol 1
As I sat down to type this, I had every intention of calling this something other than a Week In Smoke – even though that is precisely what it is. I’ve been out of the game long enough that picking up Brian Hewitt’s Week In Smoke torch and running with it seemed a bit out […]
Ben’s Week in Smoke – No. 17
It’s been quite awhile since I did a Week in Smoke; a year actually. It’s about time that I did another one. I’m going to try to do these once a week or at least every other week as I know everyone seems to like these posts from Brian and I. For those that haven’t […]
Balmoral Anejo XO Connecticut Gran Toro
One of my favorite cigars that has been released in the past 5 years has been the Balmoral Anejo XO by Royal Agio, so I was really excited to visit their booth at the 2018 IPCPR show in Las Vegas. Royal Agio had a distribution deal with Drew Estate to distribute the Balmoral line in […]
Debonaire Daybreak Toro
Debonaire House cigars have been around since 2012 and was founded by Philip S. Zanghi III. Debonaire House has two cigar companies under it with Debonaire and Indian Motorcycles Cigars. Both lines feature “ultra premium” cigars that utilize the highest quality tobacco available. Because of this, Debonaire cigar aren’t cheap. Enter the Daybreak. Introduced at the […]
Patina Connecticut
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been making an effort to use Social Media a little more than I have been. This has meant branching out beyond Facebook and knocking the dust off of both my Twitter and Instagram Accounts. The cool thing about Instagram is that several of the Gilbertsville Cigar Factory Regulars […]
Drew Estate Undercrown Shade Gran Toro
Drew Estate released the Undercrown Shade this year, 2015, at IPCPR in New Orleans too much fanfare. Blended by Willy Herrera, it was supposed to be a Connecticut wrapper cigar unlike any other you’ve ever tried before. Willy wanted something with more power and flavor and developed the Shade blend. We caught up with Willy […]