There were a few new releases at the trade show that were highly anticipated and at least two of them were Connecticut Shade wrappers which given the direction of new releases lately seems pretty rare. Today we look at one of those releases, Padron Damaso. According to the Padron website where Jose O. Padron writes, “THIS CIGAR was named for my grandfather Dámaso, who was the first Padrón to arrive in Cuba sometime in the […]
Since my co-workers returned from the trade show the number one question asked of me is; “Have you smoked the new Nick Melillo cigar?” Until today the answer was no, but after about 50 people asking for my opinion I decided to light it up today and smoke this pre-release from the man known as Nick~R~Agua on social media. The brand El Güegüense (Gwe-gwe-nse) translates into The Wise Man. According to a statement on the Foundation […]
First introduced in 2010, the My Father Limited Edition is enjoying its 5th year. However, since they did not release a limited edition in 2014, it is only the 4th cigar in the series. In its inaugural release the cigars were rolled by father and son Don Pepin Garcia and Jose Garcia; the latter which is credited as the master blender and is denoted on the secondary band of the cigar. The limited edition comes […]
According to the a press release back on July 8th, The 7¼ x 57 Salomon comes in individual, hand signed and numbered, cedar coffins housed in 5 count boxes. All 3000 cigars have been personally rolled by Santo at our Nicatabaco factory in Esteli, Nicaragua. This limited edition cigar features the same Ecuadorian Habano Criollo wrapper of the Roberto P Duran Signature line with the blend slightly altered to Santo’s liking. My co-worker caught up […]
On our previous episode of The Cigar Authority before the IPCPR we lit up Recluse Amadeus Connecticut and I enjoyed the cigar so much, I couldn’t believe this one got by me and hadn’t been reviewed on the website. It is the perfect cigar on why the question we ask when we enter a cigar shop needs to change from “what’s new to what’s good?”. If you listen to the show, you know that Recluse is […]
Two cigars made it back to me from the show with some special care given to them. The first was an M80 prototype for 2016 that I won’t be reviewing. If you follow me on social media, you can see the cigar. The other is today’s review. Henry Clay is a brand of cigars that was named for the American politician Henry Clay who served three terms as the Speaker of the House of Representatives […]
Nelson Alfonso is an artist from Cuba who is responsible for the Behike design, but he is also a cigar manufacturer with brands made in Costa Rica. Some of his cigars have rated amongst the highest of anything we smoked. The Atabey and Byron are his signature cigars, but often over looked is the more affordable Bandolero. Available as the Pack II (lighter wrapper, medium body) and the Pack III (medium-full, darker wrapper) the sticks have […]
Each year the elite tobacco retailers that make up the Tobacco Association of America gather and this past spring they met in the Dominican Republic. At this mini-trade show they take part in seminars and manufacturers such as Padron offer exclusive products for members of the TAA. This year, they released a new size of the Serie 1926 called No. 47 and it is 5.5 x 50 and being I work at a TAA retailer […]
Yesterday during the taping of The Cigar Authority, Jeremy Soares of My Father Cigars stopped by with a sample of the new El Centurion H-2K-CT. The story of the cigar goes that while in Connecticut Don Pepin Garcia and Jose Garcia paid an unannounced visit to one of their farms that supply the company with Connecticut Broadleaf tobacco. During the trip, a discussion was had to try to grown Habano 2000 in the Connecticut River […]
Often at times when I sit down to do a cigar review, I am at a loss at what to smoke. There are many cigars I smoke on a regular basis that we have reviewed in the past. Today was different as I woke up in the mood for a specific cigar, a Tatuaje Cojonu 2012. The cigar which debuted in 2012 came in three different wrapper choices, Habano, Broadleaf and Sumatra. The name is […]