No IPCPR is complete without a visit to the El Primer Mundo booth to talk to Sean Williams. This year is a special year for Sean, El Primer Mundo is celebrating its tenth anniversary. You know what that means- it’s time for a tenth anniversary cigar. And that’s exactly what Sean brought to the show. […]
IPCPR 2016: Elogio
In this video Nabil Sabbah gives us the latest on what’s happening with Elogio cigars this year. And what’s happening is the Excentrico No 5. It will be a regular production series that is a recreation of the popular Excentrico No 2. When it arrives in brick and mortar shops sometime in August you will […]
IPCPR 2016: Fratello
Omar de Frias is one of the nicest guys in the cigar industry, and possibly one of the smartest. Not many in the industry can say they worked for NASA. Or for that matter, have played professional basketball. With such an impressive resume, you might expect the Fratello brand to be just a successful man’s […]
IPCPR 2016: La Palina
La Palina is in it for the long haul, that much was clear to me after I visited their booth at this year’s trade show. Despite the looming FDA menace, Bill Paley seemed optimistic, even excited about the future for La Palina. It probably has something to do with six months of planning around the […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 102
The time has really flown by the past couple of weeks, and for a good part of it I was smoking cigars and drinking unusual beers in the exotic and mysterious places like Alabama and Oregon. I was also a guest on a local radio show talking about beer. Everything else is hazy. Imagine me […]
Long Live the King by Caldwell Cigar Company
Back in August, the crew from Sir Stogies piled into a van and began an epic journey across Southeast Pennsylvania visiting cigar shops. There were lots of laughs, plenty of drinks, and an abundance of cigars. I may be embellishing it a tad but it was a wonderful time. One of the shops we visited […]
Gurkha Vintage Selection Shaggy Toro
When I was writing up last week’s Week In Smoke, I was a little surprised to discover we have never reviewed the Gurkha Vintage Selection Shaggy. I know it’s a cigar that I’ve talked about with people a number of times over the years, and people have had generally positive things to say about it. […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 101
It’s once time again for another issue of Brian’s The Week In Smoke. In case this is your first Week in Smoke, be advised that it covers many (though not necessarily all) of the cigars I’ve smoked in the past week (or the past month, or however long it has been since the last issue), […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 100
Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about what I should smoke for the hundredth edition of Brian’s The Week In Smoke. The problem is the more you think about it, the harder it gets. It’s like that with anything though, you overthink it, and a simple task becomes an ominous burden. Knowing the […]
AVO 90th Classic Covers
I’m a couple weeks late, but I’d like to start off this review by saying Happy Birthday, Avo! 90 is an incredible accomplishment- someone needs to ask Avo what the secret is to immortality, because I think he has it, both literally and figuratively. This week I take a look at volume three in the […]