Last week I fell into a groove. The weather was beautiful and after recording a review of the E Stunner by EP Carrillo, I wanted to follow it up with something else. I dug around in my humidor and came up with a Sencillo Black. I headed outside with my cigar, camera, and a cup […]
CAO Cigars Flathead V554 Camshaft
Cars, cigars and pin-up models sounds like a winning combination, right? Unfortunately for the purposes of Stogie Review, I can really only address the tobacco portion of this cocktail. In this case, it means lighting up the new CAO Flathead V554 Camshaft and taking notes. As the name suggests, this cigar was inspired by the […]
Week in Smoke – Bayou Edition
This week, where I live, its been incredibly rainy and humid. This limits me, in this Week in Smoke, as to what I can smoke as my beloved smaller ring gauge cigar can’t handle the excessive moisture. IPCPR has been over for about a month so I have a mix of new cigars and some […]
La Palina Maduro 50
La Palina introduced their first maduro, La Palina Maduro, at IPCPR in 2012. Available to customers in November 2012, the cigar retails for $9.25 and comes in boxes of 20. The cigar is made with a Mexican maduro wrapper, double Honduran binders and Nicaraguan fillers. Currently, the cigar comes in 4 sizes: 60 – 6 […]
Brick House Maduro by JC Newman Cigar Co.
The Brick House by JC Newman Cigar Co. is not a stranger here on Stogie Review. The Brick House has made several appearances in episodes of Week in Smoke. In fact, it is one of my Top 7 Everyday Cigars that I reach for when I can’t decide what I feel like smoking. It is […]
Padilla Reserva Maduro
Wrapper : San Andres Maduro Binder : Nicaraguan Filler : Nicaraguan Source : bought locally at Genuine Tobacco Welcome to a cigar review, I know, it’s been a while. This week I am going to tackle the Padilla Reserva Maduro in the toro size. This cigar is available in four sizes, double toro (5 3/4×60), […]
La Aurora Cien Años Edición Especial
It has been awhile. Call it my winter hibernation but I’m back with another exciting video cigar review. The La Aurora Cien Años Edición Especial is the Maduro version of the legendary Cien Años blend. Limited to 7,000 cigars, the La Aurora Cien Años Edición Especial features a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper (which seems a bit […]
La Grande Classe
Today’s review is of a cigar that slipped quietly onto the market at the end of last year, created by a man who needs no fanfare to sell cigars, Dion Giolito. It’s named La Grande Classe (or “the great class”) and is a 470-box limited run blended by Dion exlcusively for his retail shop FUMARE […]
The Box-Worthies: Brian’s Top 10 Cigars of 2012
Making a top ten list is never an easy task, but I think it’s a worthwhile exercise to revisit the year, and spend some time thinking about its finer moments. I gave some thought to changing the way I do my top ten this year, like limiting it to only new releases. But then it […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 22
It’s 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), along […]