Cigar companies usually wait until their 10th Anniversary to celebrate with an anniversary release. But that wasn’t insane enough for Asylum, so they opted to celebrate their 7th anniversary with the release of Asylum Seven. A limited edition cigar that was limited to just 1,000 boxes of 20 in two sizes. 7 x 70 an infamous size that was taken to the mainstream by Tom Lazuka and 11/18 an iconic size made by Christina Eiroa […]
Today I look at a new addition to the shelves of 2GuysCigars.com. Since it’s release I’ve looked forward to running into the rep for Altadis USA. Ever since he handed me one, I was hooked. In my travels around the USA, I would grab one if I saw them on the shelf. Now, they are at my fingertips on a regular basis. The Belicoso is the only size that is box pressed in the portfolio […]
This week we welcomed Jim Price from CLE/Asylum to the show where we smoked the first cigar from the January Care Package. It’s the follow up to the original Corojo release which features two different formats of the same the same cigar in the same box. The Medulla is a round cigar, where the Oblongata is box pressed and today we review the Maduro version. Cigar Review: Asylum Medulla Oblongata Wrapper: San Andres Maduro Binder: Honduras Filler: Honduras Length: 5″ […]
Back in October of 2019 we took a look at the Sungrown version of this cigar and we were blown away by it awarding it a 95 rating. Today we take a look at the Maduro version which is a Nicaraguan Puro. According to the company website, the Perdomo Estate Selección Vintage Limited Edition Box-Pressed is hand-crafted using the top five percent of the Perdomo family’s estate grown tobaccos from their prestigious Finca Natalie Farm […]
Miami Cigar & Company celebrated its 30th Anniversary by bringing back a line that was a fan favorite. The Nestor Miranda Special Selection was the signature line of the company. The Special Selection was originally introduced in 2006 and was available in two wrappers at the time of its release, Habano Rosado and a dark Habano Oscuro. In 2012, the company added a Connecticut wrapper to the original release. During their 25th Anniversary in 2014, […]
For the last show of 2019 we smoked a cigar from The Cigar Authority Care Package that we consider to be a pretty damn special cigar. For us at The Cigar Authority, Atabey is a cigar that stands above all else. It’s a cigar that has consistently gotten a 100 rating here on The Cigar Authority and it has gotten accolades by others in the industry as well. At the 2019 IPCPR Atabey introduced a […]
Almost one year ago The Cigar Authority named their 2018 Cigar of the Year. At the time I summarized the cigar with the following conclusion, “On the podcast I refer to some of the newer Connecticut cigars as, Not your Grandfather’s Connecticut. The Aganorsa Leaf Connecticut is a perfect example of that. If you were to smoke this cigar with a blindfold on, you might have a hard time guessing the wrapper. It’s a medium […]
When a company works on a cigar blend, the cigar is often labeled with a code. When the blend of today’s stick was being worked on at Rocky Patel’s El Paraiso factory in Honduras the cigar was designated the name LB1. The company decided to keep the name of the cigar allowing consumer a look into the process of how a blend becomes a brand. The Rocky Patel LB1 was smoked on The Cigar Authority […]
The story of Indian Motorcycle is a complicated one with the company going bankrupt in 1953. In 2011, the producer of some of the greatest bikes in history was purchased by Polaris Industries and the company is thriving once again. On the May 9, 2015 episode of The Cigar Authority Phil Zanghi discussed his family history with the brand and what led to the creation of Indian Motorcycle Cigars. The Shade version of the cigar started as […]
n 2018 & 2019, 2GuyCigars.com selected Steve Saka of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust to make their annual Firecracker cigar. Shortly after its release, Steve Saka reached out to Two Guys Smoke Shop owner David Garofalo to see if he would approve of using the basis of the Firecracker blend for a line of Mi Querida cigars called Triqui Traca. The original test blends carried a long fuse on the cigar but the official release sees […]