I first met Noel Rojas in Miami in 2012 at a cigar shop called Cigar One which was once owned by Nestor Miranda and Jason Wood. He barely spoke English and I barely spoke Spanish but we bonded over cigars. It was here I first heard his story about leaving Cuba by raft to Mexico where he would make his way North to America to follow his passion. In Cuba he wasn’t able to work […]
United Cigars Limited-Edition Cigar Bar is back for the Fall with a special 3 pack by Rocky Patel. The 2nd Cigar Bar release is to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Rocky Patel cigars with an American tradition of a Silver Bar. This is the second edition of the United Cigars Cigar Bar that is part of their annual release Series Unidas collection. The Rocky Patel Cigar Bar features three individual blends from their portfolio and […]
This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… SURVEY SAYS! The TCA 2022 Survey is in – let’s see how you match up with our other listeners and viewers. Plus we have the results from Round 1 of the Wrapper Battle! We will fire up a the Rocky Patel World Championship Robusto from the Care Package in the first hour while in the cigar second hour […]
Introduced at the 2022 PCA Trade show was Alfonso Anejo from Nelson Alfonso’s Selected Tobacco. The Alfonso Añejos line ages in a separate room. This was an experiment Nelson was testing after learning the complexity French Oak could offer. Some of the most famous wines in the world use French Oak barrels and this became an obsession to incorporate a new wood into the aging rooms for Nelson. The results after five(5) years of post-roll […]
This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Q4 2022…. Where has the time gone? It is fall in New England but still hot in other places. WARNING: Let’s meet The Beetles – no, not John, Paul, George, or Ringo – but the Tobacco Beetles! Today we learn all about them, and what you can and should do to never invite them in your humidor. We […]
Created by Nelson Alfonso of Selected Tobacco, the Alfonso Añejos shares a distinguished portfolio with a current line of luxury brands: Atabey, Byron and Bandolero. Selected Tobacco started with the vision of Nelson Alfonso, to offer the market a cigar that is aged with a purpose. All the Selected Tobacco lines are placed into cedar lined rooms after they are rolled, then humidity is raised and lowered to allow the cigars to clean themselves with […]
In 2019, Reinier Lorenzo owner of HVC Cigars released the HVC 500th Anniversary cigar. The celebratory cigar wasn’t in honor of his own cigar company, but rather in honor of his home town Havana City, Cuba. Since its inception the cigar has been released in three different sizes in a very limited production. This year in 2022 the company has released a Salomon shaped rendition that is made at his factory Fabrica de Tabacos HVC […]
This week’s topic comes to us from a listener suggestion on Clubhouse. We go through a 16 wrapper bracket to decide which cigar wrapper is our favorite. The answer may surprise you. 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 Smoke Shop in Salem, NH and as always you can find many of […]
This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… We had a listener right an email a few months back suggesting that we try smoking a cigar with a breathe-right strip. This is the week we channel our inner spaz and see how it changes things if at all. We will fire up an AVO Caribe in the first hour and a yet to be determined cigar […]
Justo Eiroa and Nick Miller join us on the After Show. We talk about InterTabac and the Cigar Journal Awards. 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 Smoke Shop in Salem, NH and as always you can find many of the cigars we discuss at https://www.2GuysCigars.com/.