Proper way to roll a cigar
Thank you to the beautiful torcedor that tried to teach me how to roll a cigar. This is a video of her rolling a cigar the proper way.
Cigar rolling attempt, take 2!
Here is my second, but not any better, attempt at rolling a cigar at General Cigar with my own blend. Thanks to Barry Stein from A Cigar Smoker for helping me record this video.
Cigar rolling attempt 1
Here is my first attempt at rolling a cigar at General Cigar with my own blend. Thanks to David Jones from The Tiki Bar Online for helping me record this video.
Bad way to bunch and bind a cigar
My horrible attempt at bunching and binding a cigar at General Cigar using my own blend I developed on site.
Proper Bunching Technique for a cigar at General Cigar
One of General Cigar torcedors shows me how to proper bunch and bind a cigar before putting them in the press.
Cigar Blending with General Cigar in the Dominican Republic
As many of you know, I was recently part of a trip to the Dominican Republic for cigar bloggers to visit General Cigar DR operations. Â I will be posting several videos and even a picture show with all the great learning experiences we had as well as the amazing operation General Cigar has in the DR. In this first video, the General Cigar DR crew put together an amazing tobacco tasting seminar where they had about 15 different types of tobacco leaves ranging from primings, origin and aging. Â They rolled us fumas (small cigars of only one tobacco type) to truly be able to get the taste and palette reaction of that type of tobacco. Â Once we tried each one, they gave us the task of making our own blend which would be then rolled with a binder and wrapper of the Macanudo Cafe. Â I neglected to hear that last part about the wrapper and binder, so I made a full bodied cigar blend. Â I picked 4 tobaccos for my blend:
- Nicaraguan barrel aged ligero (aged in old wine barrels for about 2 years)
- Ometempe Seco
- Honduran Seco
- Brazilian Mata Fina
This gave me exactly what I love in a cigar. Â Nice sweet cocoa note with a bitter coffee finish and a woody core. Â Here is the video of the torcedor rolling my blend. Â Enjoy! Â Thanks to David Jones of The Tiki Bar Online for shooting this video!
Alec Bradley Fine & Rare
Alec Bradley to Release “Fine & Rare†Cigar on 11-11-11
New, very limited edition 10 leaf blend will debut this November
DANIA, FL – October 21, 2011 – No, it’s not a new Broadway musical, a reality TV series, or a law office. Fine & Rare is the name of the latest and perhaps the most ambitious cigar yet from the award-winning Alec Bradley Cigars. Scheduled to arrive in cigar stores on November 11th, 2011, Fine & Rare is made in just one size, a 6†x 52 Toro format, and will be a limited edition release of only 1,111 boxes.
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Take Part in Famous Smoke Shop’s Beta Test for Their New Penny Auction Site, CigarSniper.com
Cigar Sniper is to cigar smokers what videogames are to gamers. Cigar Sniper(www.cigarsniper.com) is a cigar-orientedpenny auction website, and THE mostentertaining way ever devised for cigar loversto buy their favorite cigars and accessories.Using guerilla warfare as the theme, CigarSniper is kind of like playing paintball withoutthe mess, and promises to be one of the mostviral websites of its kind.
Click the link below for more infomation. Â You could win some free bids!
CroMagnon
A few evenings ago Ben, Shawn and I got together via Skype to review the CroMagnon. CroMagnon is the brainchild of Skip Martin, owner of Hava Cigar Shop. Skip teamed up with Michael Rosales of Adrian’s Cigars to create a cigar he felt would be appreciated by hardcore cigar enthusiasts. What they created is a full-bodied cigar with tons of flavor and a healthy amount of strength.
The CroMagnom is cloaked in a thick and oily Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Beneath that is a Cameroon binder and Nicaraguan filers. These cigars come in five different sizes, which are referred to as the Taxonomy: Knuckle Dragger (4×52), Mandible (4 1/2×60), EMH (5×56), Cranium (6×54) and Anthropology (5 3/4 x46).
The short synopsis of this review is that all of us really enjoy the CroMagnon. This a no nonsense cigar. It provides great flavor and strength, which pairs beautifully with bourbon.
Skip wanted me to also mention that he’s running a promotion this weekend (10/14/11-10/16/11) on Hava Cigar Shop. Two random customers during this weekend will be chosen to receive a three-cigar sampler. The cigars included in this sampler are prototypes of three new brands: CroMagnon Aquitaine, Intemperance and Adrians Thirty. So head over to Hava Cigar Shop and pick up either CroMagnon or Adrian’s Cigars for your chance to win this special prize.
Also, don’t forget, at the end, we have a contest where you can win a sampler of these cigars thanks to Hava Cigar Shop!
La Caridad Del Cobre La Charada #5 La Monjita
This cigar garnered a lot of buzz when it first came out a few years ago and I was lucky enough to get one during our Twitter Brotherhood of the Leaf Cocktail hour at the 2010 IPCPR in New Orleans.  I stashed it away for safe keeping to let it rest after the hot, humid days and nights in NOLA.  Somehow I forgot that I put the cigar away and recently ran across it this weekend.  I knew I couldn’t let it escape again from me, so in short time, I had it clipped and lit.  This cigar was created by  Frank Herrera, a copyright lawyer in Florida.  Its named after the patron saint of Cuba, La Caridad del Cobre or The Lady of Charity of the Copper aka La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre aka The Virgin of the Sea.  She has been the patron saint of Cuba since 1608.  La Charada is the old Cuban tradition of picking lotto  numbers from objects you dreamed about.  Each image had a number.  La Monjita means The Nun.  Being a boutique cigars, these cigars are very hard to find, but a list of retailers is on their website located here.
