The original BOTL cigar was a collaboration between the online cigar community, BOTL.org, and Drew Estate. The original release sold out very quickly and was highly sought after on the secondary markets. I can’t remember which year that was, but I was able to get some of the original release as I was a member […]
Red Meat Lovers by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
Smoke Inn has introduced their 12th microblend release with the Red Meat Lovers cigar blended by Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust. Named after the famed Red Meat Lover’s Club in South Florida, Steve blended the cigar to be a perfect accompaniment to a huge steak dinner. Steve tried several wrappers and eventually decided […]
IPCPR 2018: 22 Minutes with Pete Johnson
No trade show coverage is complete without chat with Pete Johnson at his usual place behind the bar in the Tatuaje booth. This year we lucked out and caught Pete on the first day, which was the day following the premier of his passion project, Hand Rolled: A Film About Cigars. So we get started […]
AJ Fernandez Last Call Maduro
AJ Fernandez introduced the Last Call Maduro at the IPCPR 2016 trade show in Las Vegas following the release of the very popular Last Call. The Last Call popularity has sky rocketed since its release earlier in the year. The price point is very attractive for cigar smokers as both version come in at less […]
Southern Draw Quickdraw Pennsylvania Panatela
The first cigar I ever tried from Southern Draw Cigars was the Kudzu Gordo. As most of you know, I’m not a fan of the big ring gauge cigars, but Robert Holt, owner of Southern Draw Cigars, just asked me to give it a chance. The blend on that cigar was tweaked just for that […]
Foundation Cigars Charter Oak Maduro Rothschild
This is the second part of my review of the Foundation Cigars Charter Oak. This is for the maduro version of the Charter Oak I reviewed earlier with a Connecticut wrapper which you can read about here. You can read about the cigar in my previous review because this is the same cigar, except in […]
Foundation Cigars Charter Oak Connecticut Rothchild
Someone I always look forward to seeing every year at IPCPR is Nick Melillo of Foundation Cigars. As one of the brain children, along with Steven Saka, behind the iconic Liga Privada lines and its off shoots, you can rest assured that his offerings from his new company, Foundation Cigars, should be pretty tasty. After […]
Crowned Heads The Angel’s Anvil TAA 2016
Next in our line of TAA exclusives is the Crowned Heads The Angel’s Anvil TAA 2016. This cigar is another one that is highly anticipated each year as Crowned Heads has been one of the hottest cigar companies in the market since their debut in 2011. This is the 3rd iteration of The Angel’s Anvil […]
Tatuaje TAA 2016
Tatuaje TAA 2016 Lately, I’ve been smoking a lot of the limited releases from cigar companies for the Tobacconists’ Association of America or TAA. Only select shops can carry these cigars as they have to be a member of TAA. These limited releases are usually very good cigars, though hard to find. You can find […]
Camacho American Barrel Aged Toro
This week I decided to check out a cigar I think every bourbon fan will find interesting, the Camacho American Barrel Aged Toro. As the name implies, a portion of the tobacco in the blend (the corojo) spent some time in bourbon barrels- 5 months to be exact. And that’s after it spent 6 previous […]