Last month I received a surprise letter from Oliva. I would seem that despite my vocal displeasure for the way the 2011 Studio Tobac Advisory Board was handled, I was nominated once again to hold a place on the 2012 Studio Tobac Advisory Board. In hopes that things would be different, I accepted the nomination […]
CAO Last Stick Standing “A”
This is the second of three videos for the CAO Last Stick Standing contest. Basically there are three cigars, the one with the most votes, wins and becomes a future release sometime in 2013. Walt, Brian, Charlie and I all received a container of the three contenders and we wondered what the best way to […]
CAO Last Stick Standing “C”
This will be the first of three videos for the CAO Last Stick Standing contest. Basically there are three cigars, the one with the most votes, wins and becomes a future release sometime in 2013. Walt, Brian, Charlie and I all received a container of the three contenders and we wondered what the best way […]
The Art of the Raffle
Cigar event raffles is a topic that seems to keep coming up in conversation. Jerry, Walt, Mike and I shared our favorite and least favorite prizes in a YQMA episode a month or two ago, and I used the opportunity to complain about winning baseball caps. I’m sure it was good for a few chuckles, […]
Your Questions, My Answers (Episode 202)
Thanks for the great feedback on the Season 2 Premiere of Your Questions, My Answers. Received a lot of great questions after that episode so I hope you guys keep them coming. In fact, why not submit a question here and enter to win a five pack of the La Casita Criolla. For Episode 2 […]
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 […]
Thank You: Tom’s Cigars
Over the last few weeks, Brian, Jerry, Mike, and I have been discussing the state of Stogie Review. We looked at the things we felt were done well, as well as those we thought could use some work. One of the items from the latter column was finding a way of saying Thank You to […]
Herf’n Heads – Featuring the La Aurora 100 Años
If you were to jump into a time machine and flash back to 2009, you would find a series here on Stogie Review entitled Herf’n Heads. This series was put together by Jerry and Brian to take a standard Joint Review and add a Herf’n feel to it. What it boiled down to was a […]
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 […]
Gurkha Empire II
Origin : Unknown Wrapper : Dark Connecticut Binder : Unknown Filler : Long-leaf Ligero from the Dominican Source : Purchased from Cigars International with my own funds Today I have for you the Gurkha Empire II. This is a cigar that there is not much information floating around on except what is on the Cigar’s […]