Magic in the air… on Halloween, black is the night full of fright, you’ll be missing the day, what will be here very soon. And what better way to celebrate then with a true treat. In the first hour of the show we light up the latest Monster Series from Pete Johnson’s Tatuaje. It’s the Michael named after Michael Myers of the Halloween movies. At the bottom of the first hour, we welcome Dr. Marc […]
If you listen to The Cigar Authority, and you should I am sure the jingle is already in your head. Just opening the box of these cigars cues up the Jose Dominguez commercial in my head. It also makes me want a donut, but that’s a story for another time. For those that don’t know Jose Dominguez was a former veterinarian who decided it was time to do something new. So he turned to cigars […]
Today on The Cigar Authority we light up two cigars that have some rarity attached to them. In the first hour we will light up Pappy Van Winkle from Drew Estate. We’ll try not to take a 20 year nap, as we tell you the story of Rip and Julian “Pappy” Van Winkle. It’s also not the first cigar to have ties to the liquor industry and we will discuss how the two industries have […]
This weekend we light up the Vallejuello Medio Tiempo on the show, and as I try to do every Friday is showcase the cigar we will talk about on The Cigar Authority. I’ll be honest, I thought it was a bit repetitive, but the feedback via Facebook requesting this has been strong, so here we are. The name comes from the fact the cigars uses a rare form of tobacco that doesn’t grow on every tobacco […]
Since 2008, Pete Johnson has reinvented Halloween for cigar smokers. It all started with The Frank, which to date remains my favorite Monster Series release. From there it went to The Drac (2009), The Face (2010), The Wolfman (2011), The Mummy (2012), JV13 (2013), The Jekyll (2014), The Hyde (2015) and The Krueger (2016). There were two little monsters called Chuck and Tiff, but they have not received a Halloween release. It is expected that […]
This morning I was talking to someone in the store about Connecticut cigars. He was going around the store with me and asking about specific cigars about Connecticut wrappers. Of course we got into the conversation about shade wrappers and broadleaf wrappers, and I think I totally confused him when I mentioned Connecticut is sometimes grown in Ecuador. His mind was blown and he wanted to try different cigars with different degrees of Connecticut. Which […]
You’ve heard us hype up over the last few weeks the fact that we have a mystery guest joining us. Today is the day that all the secrets will be let out of the bag as our guest will tell you everything you wanted to know and perhaps things you wish you would have never known. We will smoke a cigar in the first hour that has ties to our guest, and is as rare […]
It’s been often said that Sir Winston Churchill would spend time in the Late Hours behind closed doors working in solitude or with trusted colleagues. During these Late Hour moments he was never without a cigar and often he was with an exceptional scotch as well. Davidoff brings together that moment with the Winston Churchill Late Hour. The Late Hour cigar is meant to be enjoyed when the end of the evening is the start of […]
As we celebrate Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day we looked for a cigar that has ties to the holiday, and that cigar is Atabey. On October 28th, 1492 Columbus discovered the island nation that at one time was the benchmark for cigars. How does the cigar tie into Cuba? The Tainos Indians would sit in a circle called the Cohiba where they would offer their prayers to the leader of the tribe, the Behike. The […]
Today, October 7th, 2017 we travel back in time as we look at the Cigar Industry throughout the decades starting in 1960. We will start things off with a cigar from La Aurora. The La Aurora Time Capsule Corojo is the first cigar of the October Care Package from the first cigar factory of the Dominican Republic In the second hour we will look at cigars that changed countries and we will light up a […]