On the December 7th episode of The Cigar Authority we smoked Guardian of the Farm which was part of the care package for December. The cigar was developed as a collaboration between Max Fernandez of Aganorsa Leaf and Kyle Gellis of Warped cigars and each size of the line was named after one of the American Bulldogs that guard the factory and fields in Nicaragua. Due to limitations in availability some members of the Care […]
The cigar industry is big on dates with Litto and Ines Gomez are no different. La Flor Dominicana celebrates their 25th Anniversary with a limited edition cigar. After closing down their jewelry business, Los Libertadores was started by the Gomez family in 1994. In 1996 they would change the name to La Flor Dominicana and as they say the rest is history. This limited edition cigar celebrating the silver anniversary of La Flor Dominicana was […]
Here at the Cigar Authority we have a developed a close relationship with the premier magazine of the cigar industry, Cigar Journal. For 25 years the company has provided an insight into the cigar industry like no other publication. Reinhold Widmayer and his team put together issue after issue a fluff free magazine with stories of farmers, rollers and the brand owners themselves. In 2016 the magazine honored The Cigar Authority with an award for […]
On the 500th Episode of The Cigar Authority asking when cigar tasting notes became a thing. While we can’t be certain, we believe it started during the days of Usenet and forums like alt.smokers.cigars when Dave Garofalo, Ed Sullivan and Steve Saka were members. Dave recalled a story where he gave some cigars to Steve Saka and Saka wrote him a long letter with detailed tasting notes well before any publication was doing so. For those […]
In May 2019, Miami Cigar & Company announced the return of the legendary Don Lino Africa. This time the company taps cigar maker AJ Fernandez to interpret the line. While the original release featured Cameroon tobacco in the filler, this time around the tobacco varietal moves to the binder. The cigar was inspired in the mid-2000s when Nestor Miranda had just traveled on Safari to the continent of Africa. Having fallen in love with the […]
Since 2015 Reinier Lorenzo the owner of HVC Cigars has released a stick to celebrate the most chaotic day of the year for retailers and many consumers, Black Friday. Like the rest of the HVC Portfolio they are produced at TABSA in Esteli, Nicaragua. The Petite Robusto is limited to just 400 boxes of 50 cigars and today we review this limited release which comes in one size. Cigar Review: HVC Black Friday Wrapper: Habano Cafe Binder: Nicaragua […]
On September 12th Justo Eiroa visited New Hampshire and we got to sit down with him to smoke a couple of pre-release cigars. Among those we smoked was a Corona size of Aladino Corojo Reserva. He informed us that the No. 4 would be a limited edition and the first cigar of a series of releases they call, “Our Cuban Heritage”. The Aladino Corojo Reserva No. 4 is limited to 800 boxes of 20 cigars. […]
If you ask the average cigar smoker who Jose Domiguez is most won’t know the name. However, chances are that you have smoked a cigar made at his cigar factory. For the past two decades Jose Dominguez has blended and made cigars for some of the top selling brands in the world. This past Saturday we smoked a cigar from The Cigar Authority Care Package on episode #501 as we debated wether to go on […]
Since 2012 Davidoff has released a special Limited Edition cigar that celebrates the Chinese New Year. Unlike the traditional Zodiac which is separated by 30 days, the Chinese Zodiac is set up by year in accordance to the Chinese calendar. To date Davidoff has released the Snake (Released 2012 / Celebrated 2013), Horse (2013/2014), Sheep (2014/2015), Monkey (2015/2016), Rooster (2016/2017), Dog (2017/2018), Pig (2018/2019) and now the Rat for 2019/2020. It is said that each […]
As we celebrated our 500th Episode we lit up the Perdomo Habano BBA Maduro. We chose that cigar because Perdomo Cigars was one of our first advertisers on The Cigar Authority Podcast/VODCast. The story of Perdomo Cigars begins in Cuba when Silvio Perdomo started working in the cigar industry in the 1930’s. In 1959 Silvio was arrested following the Cuban revolution. For 15 years he was held as a prisoner as an enemy Fidel Castro […]