Brand: Top Shelf Signature Select White Label Blender: William Ventura formerly of Don Leoncio Cigars Vitola: Corona Gorda Ring Guage: 46 Length: 6.25 Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade Binder: Dominican Olor Ligero Filler: Dominican with Nicaraguan Ligero MSRP: $6.00 Brand: Top Shelf Signature Select is a line of cigars owned by Jim Cronin, owner of Top […]
601 Maduro (Short Ashes)
With a little spare time in the morning, I searched through my cooler looking for a cigar to review this week. I came up empty handed in terms of a mild morning smoke, so I went with something that I could smoke in a short ashes format. Having met up with my local Miami Cigar […]
Maria Mancini Natural (Short Ashes)
On Sunday I was talking with Jerry via Twitter and got word that the weather in Maryland was no better than here in PA. As a result, Jerry didn’t think he was going to be able to pull off his Tuesday review. In order to cover him, I got to work on smoking a cigar […]
Carlos Torano Exodus 1959 Gold (Short Ashes)
Jerry wasn’t feeling 100% this week so he asked if Brian or Myself could cover for him today while he recuperates. Rather than a standard Short Ashes review, I played the role of Ghost of Stogie Future as Jerry and I both take a look at the Carlos Torano Exodus 1959 Gold. The review runs […]
Dona Flor (Short Ashes)
Once upon a time, Stogie Review was contacted by a rep for Cigars of Brazil. This rep was a nice guy and offered to send all three of us a couple of sample products to do a review on. Brian (Tipton), Jerry, and I each did a review of one of the three cigars sent […]
Nub Maduro
Brand: Nub Maduro Vitola: 460 Ring Gauge: 60 Length: 4.00 Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Brazilian Maduro Binder: Nicaraguan Filler: Nicaraguan Website: Nub Cigars MSRP: Unknown Brand: The Nub line of cigars is a creation of Sam Leccia, a former sales representative for the Oliva brand. In mid 2007 the idea of the Nub was pitched to […]
Alec Bradley Tempus (Short Ashes)
For the first time in Short Ashes history, I decided to review something that I have not reviewed in the past. Instead I have reviewed a cigar that I have smoked several of over the past few months and that Brian was fortunate enough to get his hands on early in the release. That cigar […]
Arganese Nicaraguan Presidente (Short Ashes)
With a forgotten appointment looming over my head, I needed to act fast and whip up a review for todays post. Not having the normal time frame available, I decided to go with a Short Ashes review today and hope to have a full length review up on Saturday. This week a take a look […]
Viaje Platino
Cigar: Viaje Platino Website: http://viajecigars.com Vitola: Chiva 5×52 Filler: Cuban-seed Nicaraguan Binder: Cuban-seed Nicaraguan Wrapper: Cuban-seed Nicaraguan Corojo 99 Price: $7-$8 Pre-light Appearance and such: I got this cigar from the girl who manages my local shop. I had read a little bit about them in a recent cigar press magazine, and it all sounded […]
Camacho Corojo (Short Ashes)
For this weeks short ashes segment, I had planned on smoking the Camacho Candela to commemorate St. Patrick’s Day. Coincidentally, last week I reviewed the Alec Bradley Harvest Selection 1997 while Jerry had planned to review it as well, this week we had the opposite happen. Due to my never being able to top Jerry […]