I’ve usually never liked much from the Romeo y Julieta line from Cuba except the churchills. Their flavor profiles just wasn’t something I cared for. In 2016, I bought a box of Cazadores on a flash sale for a great price, so I figured I’d give them another try as the Cazadores is a very […]
Romeo San Andrés By RyJ Toro
As I smoked through several Romeo San Andrés Toros for this review, I found myself imaging the moment when the idea for the cigar came together. I envision a small group of Altadis blenders and decision-makers walking leisurely along a tobacco field, looking on as a tour group gets the scoop on farming and tobacco […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 114
It’s been a busy week, but not so busy that I didn’t light up an interesting assortment of cigars. And since it’s been a minute and a half since I did one… 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 […]
Week in Smoke – 10/25/2017
I have a huge backlog of cigars I want to review before the end of the year, but time is running out on me. Some cigars I want to get to, might not make it, which is why I love when we do these Week in Smoke. Its a good way to showcase some cigars […]
Romeo Y Julieta Short Churchill
Romeo y Julieta is a Cuban cigar brand that I’ve never really taken too. The only one I’ve ever really enjoyed was the Churchill. Even the Edicion Limitadas didn’t really appeal to me. Romeo y Julieta also has never had a robusto in their regular line up until the Short Churchill was introduced in 2006. […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 104
It’s good to be back. If you follow me on social media, you’ve probably seen a lot of pictures of exotic locales interspersed with pictures of cigars that rarely show up in one of my Weeks in Smoke. I was on vacation in Southeast Asia (Malaysia and Bali) and I made a point to browse […]
IPCPR 2016: Romeo y Julieta
Our IPCPR tour continues with Yasemin Ozoncul in the Romeo y Julieta section of the Altadis booth. Before we get into the new product she gives us a little background, telling us about her first project at Altadis, 2011’s ROMEO. That leads us into the Plasencia-made ROMEO 505 Nicaragua, a box-pressed puro that was created […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 93
It’s been a little while since I posted a week in smoke. With all the travel and video editing, I really got into the moving picture groove. But today, I feel like talking with my fingers. Before you get that restraining order, I mean by way of typing and some quick picture editing. Good thing […]
IPCPR 2015: Altadis
You could have spent an hour checking out all the different lines of cigars in the Altadis USA booth at IPCPR 2015. Fortunately we had Janelle Rosenfeld, VP of Marketing for Altadis to give us a streamlined guide us through all their new releases. The resulting video is a little longer than most of our […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 90
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), […]