Reviews
Hammer & Sickle Berlin Wall
For the last one and a half months I’ve been smoking my way through a couple handfuls of the Berlin Wall from Hammer & Sickle Cigars. These cigars jumped out at me during a trip to Old Virginia Tobacco. The Berlin Wall is beautifully presented in a white marble box of twenty and are dressed […]
Humidor Notes Cigar Journals
“TO REMEMBER THE DETAILS OF YOUR CIGAR ENJOYMENT“ I’ve seen a few ways here and there where people try to keep track of the cigars that they smoke. From Excel spreadsheets, Phone Apps, to spiral bound notebooks. But none ever seemed to work for me. Either it was too involved to get set up or […]
Winston Humidor
Around late August I received the Winston Humidor from 1st Class Cigar Humidors. They gave me this humidor in exchange for my review. Since that time I’ve been paying close attention to a few different aspects and now feel that I’m ready to give my assessment of this humidors form and function. Details Size: 16-3/4″ […]
Tatuaje L’Esprit de Vérité Robusto – 2009 Vintage
Editor: Due to technical difficulties with blip.tv, this review is airing later than expected. It was supposed to air before my Top Cigars of the Year list. Never the less, here it is. Pete Johnson has started a pretty interesting concept with cigars that has been used in France for decades. Pete visited one of […]
Gran Habano STK Zulu Zulu Habano
George Rico has release a pretty interesting lancero. Supposedly this is a private blend for just himself, but decided to release it to the public with a little twist. The artwork for the cigar has an image of two child soldiers from Africa on the box and on the paper covering the cigar. The images […]
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 […]
San Lotano Oval Corona
Vitola: Corona (rounded boxpress; aka "Oval Pressed") Size: 5×44 Wrapper: Habano 2000 Aged for 4+ years Binder: Nicaraguan Filler: Nicaraguan, Honduran, and an AJ Fernandez "Secret Blend" Cost: $6.85 I have had many AJ Fernandez cigars with much luck. From the Man Of Wars to the San Lotano, I've liked many I have picked up. […]
A Year of Anarchy
On Thanksgiving 2010 I posted a review of the Tatuaje Anarchy. The Anarchy is a Limited Edition cigar that is only available at Smoke Inn. To say the least I was blown away by the cigar at that time. Luckily enough for me a few folks in my family paid attention to that review because […]
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 […]
