Noel Rojas is based out of Texas but it comes by way of Cuba having left his homeland to follow the American Dream. Living in Miami, Noel and I struck up a friendship with both of us struggling with each others language but finding a common bond of cigars. Today he is currently making his cigars with Tabacalera Flor de San Luis S.A. in Esteli, Nicaragua. Rumor has it he is currently renovating a building […]
In January of 2020, The Cigar Authority podcast send out a sample of a cigar to their care package members that was in consideration to become the new Abuelo cigar in the United Cigar Group portfolio. That cigar was met with overwhelming positive comments and the cigar went into production. Now shortly after our own David Garofalo became a grandfather, the cigar has reached the market. Abuelo means grandfather in Spanish and the Abuelo cigar […]
I first met Noel Rojas of Rojas Cigars in Miami where the two of us developed a friendship. He came to the states after he left Cuba where he was once arrested for peddling cigars on the street. Not wanting to work in the industry the government had placed him in, he decided to leave his homeland. From the first time I met him, his dream was to own his own cigar company. Through years […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire.. SURVEY SAYS! The Results are in for the 2021 TCA Listener Survey and we will share that information with you and you might be surprised by some of the answers, we know we were! We also discuss the proper way to light and re-light a cigar. You might think you know how, but there are some steps many of […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe, for over a year now, the pandemic has caused all trade shows to close, and Las Vegas has not allowed a trade show to happen until now. TPE – The Tobacco Plus Expo just wrapped up and we will tell you how it went. Also, there is an all-out war against flavored cigar… they could be banned. How will that […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe. Dave is back! HeI missed the show last week, but he had a good excuse as he became a Grandfather… an Abuelo… And we will smoke the soon to be released new Abuelo cigar made by JRE for United Cigars. We will smoke that as Dave gives us an update on Baby James and how life is living under one roof with four […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe we welcome Justo Eiroa of Aladino Cigars to the show. He’s the brand owner of JRE Tobacco along with his father Julio Eiroa, but the two of them are more than brand owners. They are the Kings of Honduran tobacco and we talk to Justo about everything tobacco from seed to cigar. In the first hour we light up the Aladino Corojo […]
In 2006, David Garofalo had an idea to create a cigar that had a fuse attached to it and call it the Firecracker. The cigar has seen a variety of limited editions since its release but the one thing that has been constant is the regular production United Cigars Firecracker. This year, the cigar gets rebranded and reboxed giving it a more finished and polished look. The regular production comes to us from the Dominican […]
Originally introduced in the early 2000’s, the Perdomo Inmenso Seventy was a legend before its time. The larger seventy ring gauge cigars were considered enormous back in the day. Today, seventy ring gauge cigars have become more than a trend and are some of the most popular sizes amongst experienced smokers. Back by popular demand, the Perdomo Inmenso Seventy Sun Grown is a medium-bodied smoke. The 5-year aged Cuban-seed Nicaraguan Sun Grown wrapper adds a smooth […]