I decided today to take a trip down memory lane. You see over time I feel I have evolved as a cigar smoker, and while there were brands I smoked on a regular basis in my early years of cigar enjoyment, I have strayed away from them over time. Some of those reasons include the giant corporation wanting to destroy the little guy by not protecting brick & mortar pricing and realizing cigars that are […]
A cigar I have smoked a hundred times, but shockingly never reviewed until today as Jeremy Soares stopped by The Cigar Authority for a quick visit. La Duena is blended by Pete Johnson of Tatuaje fame. According to the My Father webpage, “For many years Janny Garcia has worked side by side with her father Don Pepin Garcia and her brother Jaime Garcia in building the family company. : After honoring Don Pepin with the […]
Originally released in October of 2013, The Davidoff of Geneva 25th Anniversary was limited to 3,000 boxes. The cigar was released to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the creation of Davidoff of Geneva which was created to allow the Swiss company the ability to enter the US market after the company left Cuba over issues on how its cigars were made. As luck would have it Two Guys Smoke Shop still had 6 in […]
Nelson Alfonso is a rising star in the cigar industry who is most famous for his design on the Cohiba Behike among other Cuban brands. Here in the USA, he is known as the creator of the Padron humidor as well as the owned of Selected Tobaccos which makes Atabey. Bandolero and today’s review Byron. The cigar which we discussed on last weeks The Cigar Authority podcast is a new line extension of the Serie […]
Today’s review is sort of a #ThrowbackThursday. You see, back in mid 90’s one of the hottest cigars was the Cusano Hermanos. And the cigar showed up this week where I happen to work, Two Guys Smoke Shop. According to David Garafolo, he got a call from a “higher up guy” at Davidoff who told him they had located a couple hundred boxes in their warehouse from way back. How far back? These cigars are more […]
While hanging out with Erik Wentworth and Eric Hanson of Hammer + Sickle earlier this week they asked me why I haven’t reviewed the Berlin Wall as of yet. I told them, I did review the Celebration Short Corona, but they pointed out that was a limited edition. So here we are, the Berlin Wall was launched in August, 2011 and according to their website, “Hammer + Sickle Berlin Wall Series cigars are available in three […]
I had the opportunity to sit down with Bob Moreno the VP of Sales for La Palina where he brought back a few samples from the TAA of the forthcoming La Palina Family Series Miami, specifically the Pasha for me to smoke and review. The series which was once produced at the Graycliff factory moves to the famous El Titan de Bronze in Miami where all the roles are 100% Cuban trained and are rated […]
A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of sitting with Lauren Ferraro (CLE Rep) and Pablo Schneider (Patoro Owner) and sample this new cigar distributed in the USA by CLE (Christian Eiroa). If the name Schneider doesn’t sounds familiar, it should as Pablo Schneider is the grandson of the famous Dr. Schneider who once owned Davidoff and looking at the boxes there is a similarity to that lineage. The wood style boxes are very […]
On Super Bowl Weekend, The Cigar Authority named their cigar of the year and for us it was the Standard Issue from BG Meyer. Since that initial release there was the Slackers which we hope one day sees a regular release in other sizes and today’s cigar Gigantes. According to Rob Weiss, the man behind BG Meyer Gigantes “The new BG Meyer Gigantes pays tribute to those towering spirits that have lead us to action by […]
Over a month ago we took a look at the Perdomo Small Batch 2005 – Connecticut Edition and while Ecuador Connecticut can be drying to our palate we were genuinely impressed. In fact, if that was a regular production cigar it would be an early contender for cigar of the year. Today. we take a look at the Sun Grown version of that same cigar which the press release describes as “The Perdomo Small Batch Series […]