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VODCast: Toscano Cigar Pairing With The Feast of the Seven Fishes

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Toscano cigars are made in Italy, and today will go through The New – MASTER AGED Toscano, with Michael Capellini from Toscano Cigars. Plus we have the feast of the Seven Fishes, TCA Style! The power of the care package as turned a lot of people on to Toscano Cigars and today we smoke the Toscano Master Aged Series […]

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VODCast: Are We Really The Cigar Authority?

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… are we really The Cigar Authority? If you listened last week Dave fired everyone after show (not really) and we share our resume’s and list of accomplishments. Are we good enough to be re-hired? Are we really The Cigar Authority? It’s December and we dig into The Cigar Authority Care Package as we light up the Leaf by Oscar […]

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VODCast: Does Size Matter? We Look at the Best Size in Each Line

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Does size matter? We take a look at various cigar brands and tell you what the best size in each line is. We will fire up an ExPat by Serino Cigars from The Care Package with a HVC Black Friday 2022 in the second hour. Join us for all of this and the usual suspects including the VS […]

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VODCast: The 2022 Contenders for Cigar of the Year Are…

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Dave has been doing it since 1992 and its time to do it all over again, It’s the 2022 Contenders for Cigar of the Year. It is the 31st Edition of The Contenders. We will name our 7 cigars for Contenders for Cigar of the Year and the criteria surrounding their nomination. Plus we will share how your vote matters. We […]

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VODCast: True or False – A Live Listener Competition

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Competition for our LIVE viewers…. Tune in to YouTube if you want to play, it’s the only way to be eligible to win! Have you been paying attention – if you have, you might win. We got prizes to give away. We will fire up a YaYa Short Robusto in the first hour which is part of the […]

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VODCast: West Tampa Cigars… From Corporate to Independent with Rick Rodriguez

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… We are joined by Rick Rodriguez who you may know from his days at CAO. These days he owns West Tampa Tobacco Company and we discuss his road from corporate to independent. We will fire up a West Tampa Black in the first hour which is part of the The Cigar Authority Care package and in the second hour […]

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VODCast: The Real Story of Cohiba… As We Know It!

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Every cigar brand has a story, but no story is as controversial as the Cohiba story. Lawsuits, Prices, and The Most Ripped-Off Brand in History. We discuss Cohiba as we are joined by the guy that took Dave on his first trip to Cuba; former Chief Editor of Cigar Journal, Cigar Researcher, Author, and Owner of Twin Engine […]

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VODCast: The Next Big Thing in Cigars

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… The next generation of cigar makers and cigar-lebrities. It’s the changing of the guards – Who are the next players in the Cigar Industry? We will light up the Adventura Queens Pearl from the care package in the first hour while in the second hour we will smoke a cigar from Freud both of which were made at […]

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VODCast: From Wall Street to Pizza to the King of Aganorsa Leaf Cigars – Eduardo Fernandez!

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… A pairing that cannot be beaten in Dave’s personal opinion – Pizza and Cigars. One followed by the other or even at the same time! Today we are talking Pizza & Cigars with Dave’s guest Eduardo Fernandez, owner & Founder of Aganorsa Cigars… PLUS Barry recently rated the Alfonso Anejo #3 a whopping 102, but we have something […]

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VODCast: Survey Says… The 2022 TCA Survey Results

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… SURVEY SAYS! The TCA 2022 Survey is in – let’s see how you match up with our other listeners and viewers. Plus we have the results from Round 1 of the Wrapper Battle! We will fire up a the Rocky Patel World Championship Robusto from the Care Package in the first hour while in the cigar second hour […]

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