The After Show: Are Cigar Retailers Their Worst Enemies?

This week on The Cigar Authority After Show we take a look at what retailers should be doing to better their business as Dave is at TPE ready to moderate a panel of retailers. What can you be doing to help your business by improving the customer experience.  We have this an more on The After Show brought to you by RoMaCraft Tobac. Never miss an episode by subscribing to the show via Apple Podcasts and […]

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La Galera Anemoi Boreas Cigar Review

Despite not being thought of as essential, the winds play a vital role in the growing of tobacco. They instruct tobacco farmers, by way of their direction, of the best spaces in which to grow tobacco. The Greeks, geniuses in their own right, also understood the importance of wind. The collective name of their wind gods is Anemoi. The northern wind was named Boreas. The southern wind was christened Notus. The eastern wind was baptized […]

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Aganorsa Leaf Connecticut Robusto Cigar Review

On the January 24th episode of The Cigar Authority we lit up a cigar from the care package, Aganorsa Leaf Connecticut. It served as our 2018 Cigar of the Year. As has become customary we share an in-depth featured review of the care package cigar every Saturday. Cigar Review: Aganorsa Leaf Connecticut Wrapper: Ecuador Connectiuct Binder: Nicaragua (Aganorsa) Filler: Nicaragua (Aganorsa) Length: 5″ Ring Guage: 50 Size: Robusto The Look: The Aganorsa Leaf Connecticut is laid out in two rows of ten cigars. […]

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VODCast: We Prepare For Tobacco Plus Expo 2020

With all the controversy and separation in the cigar industry we prepare for the TPE – Tobacco Plus Expo 2020 where all parties in the tobacco world will unite. What is scheduled and what is not but will happen anyway… we’ll discuss today on The Cigar Authority. We will look at the players in the industry from giant corporations to small family businesses and from the manufacturers to the retailers. Who will be there and […]

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Polpetta by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Cigar Review

In 2018 the members of The Cigar Authority began talking about who had the best meatball between David Garofalo, Mr. Jonathan Barbeau, Ed Sullivan and yours truly Barry Stein. But then something happened where Steve Saka joined the debate and an event was held in January of 2019 where we each would make 50 meatballs and guest of an event at Two Guys Smoke Shop would get to vote for the winner. Steve Saka wound […]

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The After Show Talks About What’s Going on Behind the Scenes at PCA Tradeshow

This week The After Show talks about the intrigue around who’s going and not going to the PCA tradeshow. Are companies being pressured to attend or not attend the show? We pull back the curtain and tell you what may or may not be happening. The Cigar Authority is a member of the United Podcast Network and is recorded live in front of a studio audience at Studio 21 Podcast Cafe upstairs at Two Guys […]

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Sobremesa Short Churchill Cigar Review

This past weekend on The Cigar Podcast we fired up a cigar from the prime care package, Sobremesa. Sobremesa, “over the table” has no precise English translation, perhaps because there is no cultural equivalent in the US. It is an idiom used among the Latin culture to describe the leisurely time spent table side after you have finished dining but before you rise. It is the experience of lingering casually with family and friends in […]

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Toscano Garibaldi Cigar Review

This past weekend we welcomed Michael Cappellini of Toscano Cigars  to The Cigar Authority where we smoked the Garibaldi which was part of the January Care Package. According to the Toscano website the cigar was born of a a brilliant idea by Mario Soldati, the TOSCANO® Garibaldi cigar was introduced in 1982 to celebrate the centenary of the death of the Italian hero. Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general and a patriot who contributed […]

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VODCast: Passion & Myths of Toscano Cigars

Fresh off his North American Sales Meeting in Doral, Florida we welcome Brand Ambassador Michael Cappellini of Toscano Cigars to the show. We catch up with him to see how 2019 was, how 2020 is shaping up as he visits us Live at the Toscano Sound Stage of Studio. He is bringing with him some of his award winning Limoncello as we drink up and smoke a cigar from the care package, Toscano Garibaldi. In […]

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Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Espressivo Cigar Review

The Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua comes to us from Rafael Nodal’s Boutique Blends which is now part of Altadis and is made at the AJ Fernandez in Nicaragua. This cigar is the first in the line not to be produced by Jochy Blanco in the Dominican Republic. Cigar Review: Aging Room Quattro Nicraragua Wrapper: Nicaragua Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Nicaragua Length: 5″ Ring Gauge: 50 Size: Espressivo (Robusto) The Look: The Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua comes packaged in an orange box which stands out on the […]

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