This week we welcome Rafael Nodal from Aging Room & Altadis USA who joined forces 17 months ago. We will look at how this strategic alliance has worked out so far as well as discuss the inspiration for Puro Cepa. It is the first cigar this week and from The Cigar Authority care package. In the second hour we light up the Aging Room Quattro Connecticut plus we catch up on the mail bags which […]
Today we light up the Davidoff 702 Series which features the Ecuador Habano 702 Wrapper. Its a Hybrid that was created using 3 Cuban seeds. Cigar Review: Davidoff 702 Series 2000 Wrapper: Ecuador Habano 702 Binder:Ecuador Connecticut/Habano (Hybrid) Filler: Dominican Republic Length:5 1/16″ Ring Gauge: 43 Size: Corona The Look: The 702 Habano is a hybrid wrapper created from three cuban seeds. The 702 Series 2000 is laid out in 5 rows of 5 cigars. The cigars feature the classic looking Davidoff White […]
The following comes from the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers better known as IPCPR: Earlier today, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its roadmap for regulations, called the Unified Regulatory Agenda. This outlines the regulatory priorities and perspective timeline for the FDA and other federal agencies. Importantly, on its agenda, the FDA noted their recent review for premium cigars remains ongoing, meaning the agency still considers this issue an open item. However, […]
Balmoral announced today to their retail partners that the highly anticipated IPCPR release of the Balmoral Serie Signaturas DUETO will begin shipping out to retailers. The Dueto is the result of a special collaboration between two of the most passionate and dedicated boutique premium cigar makers, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo and Boris Wintermans. While each cigar maker has a unique and distinguished personal tobacco history, they share the philosophy that relentless, passionate curiosity is essential to discovering and […]
In 2018 the CLE Prieto gets a line extension with the release of the box-pressed Diadema. The brand debuted along side Chele in 2016 at TAA although they weren’t TAA Exclusives. Themes were an interesting take on light and dark wrappers as Chele, which is slang for light-skinned and Prieto, which is Spanish slang for dark-skinned. Cigar Review: CLE Prieto Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Nicaragua Length: 7″ Ring Gauge: 52 Vitola: Diadema The Look: The box pressed Diadema comes in 10 count […]
Drew Estate announced today the shipping of the Florida Sun Grown Limited Edition Trunk Press Toro to Drew Diplomat retailers across the nation. This prized cigar features a unique blend different from the core line as the Trunk-Press Toro utilizes a Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf wrapper, Mexican binder, with one full leaf of Florida Sun Grown Cuban Seed Corojo, along with fillers from Nicaragua and Honduras. From the Florida Sun Grown Farm, Jeff Borysiewicz notes, […]
As has become customary after The Cigar Authority podcast we share an in depth review of a cigar we smoked on the show. This week that cigar is the Undercrown Maduro. One of the other cigar we smoked was the Acid Amigos and that review can be read at https://thecigarauthority.com/acid-amigos-cigar-review/. Cigar Review: Undercrown Maduro Wrapper: Otapan Negro Ultimo Corte Binder: T52 Connecticut River Valley Stalk Cut & Cured Habano Fillers: Brazilian Mata Fina, Nicaraguan Cuban Seed Length: 6″ Ring Gauge: 52 Size: Belicoso […]
David Garofalo has a long history with Drew Estate a history that dates back to their beginnings as he hosted one of their first ever events at Two Guys Smoke Shop. Today we welcome Fabien Ziegler to the show as we find out whats new and exciting from Drew Estate. The man known as Dirty Fabien will join us for the full two hours as we light up the Undercrown Maduro in the first hour, […]
Since 2008 there has been a cigar release that was as constant as death and taxes. It all started for Tatuaje with The Frank, and now it concludes with The Bride. As with other releases it was available in 666 dress boxes of 13 cigars and this year the 10 count non-dress box is limited to 4,500 boxes produced. Cigar Review: Tatuaje The Bride Wrapper: Connecticut Broadleaf Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Nicaragua Length: 7 1/8 Ring Gauge: 49 Size: The Bride (Churchill) The Look: Two […]
This weekend on The Cigar Authority was our annual conspiracy theory show. It’s a show where we talk about where cigar companies could be sold and to whom. It’s entirely hypothetical although each year we manage to get one right. On the show we smoked two cigars from the Care Package. On Saturday we shared our review of the Aladino Maduro, today we offer up our Lunatic Review. Cigar Review: JFR Lunatic Wrapper: Ecuador Habano Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Nicaragua […]