Up next in the General Cigar IPCPR 2017 tour was CAO, and Rick Rodriguez was our guide through the metaphorical jungle of the latest CAO cigar releases. The latest is the Amazon Anaconda, the final part of the Amazon Trilogy. The first part being the Amazon Basin and the second the Fuma Em Corda, which […]
IPCPR 2016: CAO
At the CAO display we saw something that seemed a little familiar, but with a name we didn’t recognize. I’m talking about the CAO Consigliere of course, not Rick Rodriguez. He wasn’t wearing a name tag when we talked to him, but I’m pretty sure his name hasn’t changed. Rick is a little bit coy […]
La Flor Dominicana La Nox
One of the cigars I’ve been smoking a little more of lately is the La Flor Dominicana La Nox. It was featured in a lot of 2015 top ten lists, so I thought I’d get to know it better. For one reason or another, it was a cigar that really wasn’t on my radar in […]
Herfin Heads – Davidoff Escurio
In this joint video cigar review adventure, Ben Lee and Brian Hewitt take a look at the new Davioff Escurio Petit Robusto. It’s the shortest of three sizes in the new Escurio line, and continuing in the Davidoff Nicaragua vein, it’s a departure from the traditional Davidoff with which most cigar smokers are familiar. It’s […]
Lucky Leaf Cigars Duo
I was sent a two pack of Lucky Leaf Cigars Duo from Jef Dunphy of Lucky Leaf Cigars for a review with a card describing the blend of the cigar. I haven’t heard of Lucky Leaf Cigars before as they are a new boutique cigar company that has been building up quite a presence. The […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 42
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), […]
Crowned Heads JD Howard Reserve HR46
Crowned Heads announced their third cigar line in February call the JD Howard Reserve. Named after Jesse James alias when he lived in Nashville, TN, where Crowned Heads is located, their new cigar is blended by EP Carrillo in their Tabacalera La Alianza S.A. factory in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The JD Howard Reserve consists of a Brazilian […]