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 […]
Ben’s Week in Smoke – Bayou Edition No. 14
Ben’s Week in Smoke – Bayou Edition No. 14 I know it’s been awhile since I last posted at Stogie Review, but I have a good excuse. I recently moved from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Houston, TX. While the move didn’t keep me from smoking cigars, it definitely curtailed how many I smoked since […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 100
Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about what I should smoke for the hundredth edition of Brian’s The Week In Smoke. The problem is the more you think about it, the harder it gets. It’s like that with anything though, you overthink it, and a simple task becomes an ominous burden. Knowing the […]
Henry Clay Tattoo
This week I have selection for you that’s probably a little surprising: the Henry Clay Tattoo. Surprising in that it’s a limited edition that hit the markets last year, around six months ago at this point. I have a couple of reasons for reviewing it now. The first and foremost is convenience. I was working […]
The Box-Worthies: Brian’s Top 10 Cigars of 2015
This is the part where I whine about how hard it is to pick ten cigars I smoked in 2015, rank them and declare them the box-worthiest of all cigars to be box-worthy in that year. The truth is, this year’s list seemed easier to compile. I quickly put together a pool or 25 or […]
Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 95
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), […]
Tatuaje Monster Series The Hyde
The spooky season is upon us, and I just happened to pick up a few of this year’s Tatuaje Monster Series The Hyde. Now ordinarily, I’d set these rarities to the side in the humidor and light one up in about a month (or three), but I thought it’d be fun to light one up […]
72 Minutes with Pete Johnson
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 […]
IPCPR 2015 – 25 Minutes With Pete Johnson
In keeping with tradition, we present you with IPCPR 2015 edition of 25 minutes with Pete Johnson. In this interview we touch on a variety of topics, as Pete is a man of many and varied interests. We start with cigars, touching on new sizes of Verocu, L’Atelier Extension de la Racine ER15, La Mission […]