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Win a trip to Austin, TX and a Limited Edition box of Cromagnon Cigars from Cromagnon Cigars

Editor’s Note – Skip Martin and Mike Rosales of Adrian’s Cigars are running a contest to celebrate the release of the Cromagnon cigar in is full cube box release. Below are the details of how to enter: CroMagnon Culture Contest CroMagnon Transcends Lifestyle. CroMagnon is Our Culture. Prize (1): 2 Days in Austin, Texas (The [...]


Casa Magna Domus Magnus Optimus

Quite a name isn't it?  It almost seems like that should be the name of a Roman caesar instead of cigar.  Quesada Cigars released this cigar under the Casa Magna line, which won cigar of the year for that lifestyle magazine a few years back, but this cigar has an extremely low production of only [...]


Upcoming C4 Cigar Club’s Atlanta Christmas Herf

  The C4 Cigar Club is a cigar club based in Cobb County, GA, a Northern Atlanta suburb.  We get our name from our location, Cobb County Cigar Club, or C4.  We have various events throughout the year to support our local B&M’s and to get great brothers and sisters of the leaf together for [...]


2011 Atlanta Tweetup at Buckhead Cigar Club

This past weekend, Shawn and I attended the 2001 Atlanta Tweetup hosted by Boram and Mike from Buckhead Cigar Club in Buckhead, GA.  Shawn and I went up a day early for the 3 day mega-herf and had an outstanding time.  The herf was attended by other fellow bloggers like Brian Hewitt of Stogie Review, who [...]


First Responders Herf sponsored by General Cigar

As many of you know, I was invited to go to the Dominican Republic to visit General Cigar's Dominican operations. While there, I was talking to our coordinator, Victoria McKee Jaworski, about and idea I had about doing a herf for our first responders (police, firefighters, EMTs, nurses, etc) that give all they can to [...]


La Flor Dominicana to introduce Small Batch IV in December 2011

Coral Gables, FL December, 2011 – La Flor Dominicana will introduce the fourth in a series of “Small Batch” Litto Gomez Diez cigars. This limited production item is sold only to selected “Appointed Merchants” These cigars are very special, made with tobaccos that are the cream of the crop. The tobaccos in these cigars are [...]


Davidoff unveils new Retail Concept at Zürich Airport – the 21st Century Cigar store

Zurich, 30 November 2011 – On 1 December 2011 the Oettinger Davidoff Group unveils its new retail concept and design when opening the first of its kind Davidoff Flagship Store in the redesigned Airside Center at Zurich Airport. At the very heart of the approx. 60m² store is a 30m² walk-in humidor with generous glass [...]


MONTECRISTO NEW YORK CONNOISSEUR EDITION RELEASED


Nestor Miranda Grand Reserve

Nestor Miranda released this cigar this year at the 2011 IPCPR as the pinnacle of the Nestor Miranda line.  Dressed in a beautiful Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper and made in the My Father cigar factory in Nicaragua, only 10000 cigars were made.  Available in 10 count boxes for around $110 a box, this cigar runs [...]


Crowned Heads Four Kicks robusto

After the merger of ST Group and Swedish Match, CAO undertook dramatic changes.  Most of the employees where let go and the company headquarters was moved from Nashville, TN to Richmond, VA.  A few of the employees from the old CAO didn’t want to accept these changes so they left and formed Crowned Heads.  Jon [...]