I am about to head down a road that could get me in some serious trouble. At times I have the ability to mean well and not properly string together the right words that could be taken as being negative. Today I review the cigar that Cigar Aficionado deemed The Cigar of the Year for 2015. The Le Bijou was released in 2009 at the IPCPR in New Orleans and came one year after the original My […]
This week on The Cigar Authority we light up another cigar from the December Care Package, the Nestor Miranda Connecticut Coffee Break. We discuss out the blend came to be and how it has ties a member of The Cigar Authority… We also break down the Winter 2015 issue of Cigar Journal which features Avo Uvezian on the cover. We discus there 2015 awards and maybe even mention their Top 25 countdown. In the second […]
Sometimes coming up with a cigar to review can be challenging when you review cigars as one person five days a week for a period of time that is now close to 17 months. So today I asked my co-worker Ed to go out and pick a cigar for me to review. His mission was to go into Two Guys Smoke Shop Nashua and pick a cigar off the shelf. He removed the band, and […]
LA AURORA EARNS TWO AWARDS AT THE DOMINICAN CIGAR AWARDS Master blender Manuel Inoa comes away with the “Cigar Personality of the Year” award. (Miami, Florida) December 16, 2015 – The Dominican Cigar Review, noted as the most important cigar magazine in the Dominican Republic, presented the third annual Dominican Cigar Review Award with La Aurora taking home top honors in two categories. The Dominican Cigar Review Awards ceremony brings together journalists, celebrated industry authorities, […]
A silver lining in the forthcoming budget fails to materialize as the House of Representatives has released a bill that has been referred to as omnibus and that the exemption for cigars was removed from that final proposal. While the bill moves before a vote of the House and Senate there still remains a slim chance that the language could miraculously find its way back into to bill. It is believed that the language which was […]
The Neanderthal was first mentioned by RoMa Craft in 2014, but it wouldn’t see a release until 2015. There was a 4″ version called SGP that was limited to two cigar shops in Texas; and a production line called the HN. Today we look at the 5″ version that contains 6 different filler tobaccos including an exceptionally strong variant of Double Ligero from Pennsylvania known as Green River Valley Sucker One. According to the guys at Romacraft the […]
This past weekend on The Cigar Authority podcast we smoked the Aging Room M356 which was part of December care package. As we will be doing from now on; the Monday after the show we will do a full review of a cigar that was featured on the episode. The Aging Room by Rafael Nodal’s Boutique Blends and is made at Tabacalera La Palma under Jochi Blanco and was launched in 2011. The original Aging […]
Brick and Mortar Cigar Retailers Vs. The On-Line Discounters THE GREAT DEBATE Another editorial by David Garofalo I just saw the numbers from Black Friday in retail, down for yet another year. Small Business Saturday, down again for another straight year… and finally, Cyber Monday up however again for another record-breaking day and year. So it got me thinking… For the past decade this has been a hot debate throughout the entire retail world, store […]
It’s that time of year again when Cigar Aficionado comes out with their list of Top 25 cigars.. We will share with you our predictions of what we believe their list will be… Also we will be smoking the Aging Room 356 which was part of The Cigar Authority Care Package for the month of December. All this and more on The Cigar Authority [jetpack_subscription_form] Next Podcast: Crystal Ball [chatwing id=”423810″ width=”600″ height=”350″ enable_custom_login=”0″ custom_login_secret=”” ][/chatwing]
Now is the Time to Contact Speaker of the House Paul Ryan & Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Since the Tobacco Control Act took effect, cigar patrons, retail tobacconists and manufacturers from across the premium cigar industry have been fighting in Washington, D.C. to preserve the simple enjoyment of a premium cigar – to protect that enjoyment from a threatening bureaucracy at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. At this very moment, Congress is debating the federal […]