The Arturo Fuente Magnum R44 isn’t a cigar you’ll find online for sale as Fuente has a strict policy about this stick only being available inside a brick & mortar. This is something I applaud as I have always preached to support your brick & mortar. According to the official website for Fuente Cigars the wrappers used on this line are grown in Ecuador and aged for nearly a decade. How does that translate to […]
Cabaiguan by Tatuaje gets its name from a municipality and town in the province of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. The town was founded in 1894 and is best known for its cigars. In addition to a small cigar factory the town also has a oil refinery and a prison. As for the cigar it was released in 2004 and was originally made at El Rey de los Habanos in Miami, FL before production was moved to […]
While I know we just reviewed an EPC cigar on Friday, I am opting to review another one today. The EPC La Historia was released in 2014 by Ernesto Perez Carrillo. If you don’t know the name, you should as he created La Gloria Cubana from a small factory in Miami, Florida back in 1990. In 1999, he would sell his business to General cigar before leaving them in 2009 and starting up EPC Cigar […]
It’s Cinco de Mayo and you know what that means? The boys are drinking, and since Dave was doing Tequila shots at the TAA in the Dominican Republic with the likes of Carlito Fuente, Rocky Patel and Jorge Padron he can slum it with the likes of Mr. Jonathan, Barry Stein and Ed Sullivan. It’s also a cigar show, so we will talk a lot about that this week as we recap the week in […]
The ring gauge of a cigar is based on 64ths of an inch. So, 50 is 50/ 64, 52 is 52/64 and so on. So, with 3 sizes in the line all bordering on the inch mark, I guess the name only made sense. Larger ring gauges were at first thought to be a novelty but they grew in popularity much to my own personal dismay. Today we light up the E.P. Carrillo Inch and […]
On this weekend’s show we will welcome back host David Garofalo from the Tobacconist Association of America meetings that just concluded in La Romana, Dominican Republic. One of the items we found out while he was down there was that the La Flor Dominicana TAA 50th Cigar will be based on the Oro blend, however the filler will contained Criollo ’99 under the Nicaraguan Sun Grown Habano wrapper. It’s been a long time since I […]
Today we light up the Davidoff Selección 702 Limited Edition which was the first cigar back in 2009 to feature the 702 wrapper from Ecuador. To celebrate Davidoff’s 50th Anniversary the company has released these cigars in a limited quantity once again. Will they perform as the original release did? Will these too become a highly sought after collectible? Here are our thoughts on this highly anticipated stick. Cigar Review: Davidoff Selección 702 Limited Edition Wrapper: Ecuador Habano […]
The Tobacconist Association of America is under way in the Dominican Republic and earlier this week we displayed the list of limited edition cigars coming out at this year. In addition to the limited edition cigars some sticks are made available early to the 75 retailers that make up the TAA. The Nestor Miranda 75th Anniversary was on display at TAA which leads to speculation that it might be released early to members of the […]
This morning at the 2018 Tobacconist Association of America being held in the Dominican Republic, Padron Cigars unveiled that they will release a cigar called Padron Black. The cigar which will reach retailers this summer measures 6 x 46 and will come in boxes of 10. The cigar is being described as a blend between the 1926 and 1964 Anniversary blends and will carry a retail price of $16.50 When the cigar is available The […]
With the Tobacconist Association of American under way in the Dominican Republic some new TAA Exclusives have been revealed, one of which is the La Flor Dominicana TAA 50th Golden “Oro” Anniversary. The cigar will be available in 20 count boxes with cigars measuring 6.5 x 54 in a box pressed torpedo format. LFD will be limiting production these cigars to the number ordered at the event featuring the nations top retailers and pricing is […]