Back when Steve Saka announced the SakaKhan he wrote on Facebook, “It was the 80’s when Chaka Khan became known as an artist and I was getting certified to Con(n) as a JOOD Underway on my ship – the enlisted guys who worked the Bridge started calling me this… kinda funny as my middle name ‘Temujin’ is also the birth name of Ghengis Khan… so this is double dip when it comes to why this nickname […]
This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Lissette Perez-Carrillo is the daughter of Ernesto Perez-Carrillo. She has been in the cigar industry her whole life and he here to joins us, to talk about how she started and where EP Carrillo is going. We will fire up a cigar from EPC in the first hour while in the second out we turn to The Cigar […]
The new YAYA premium cigar line from CigarZona will not only have its US launch at this year’s PCA (Premium Cigar Association) trade show in Las Vegas, NV but it will also release a show exclusive: YAYA Short Robusto. This year’s PCA will be a special one for United Cigars as this will be their first-time back exhibiting since 2019 with an even greater presence. YAYA landed in the United portfolio after its hometown launch […]
Consider a room known as a studio. A room where craft is King. Perhaps a record studio where legendary music is composed. A move studio where great stores are captured frame by frame, or even a woodworking studio where a natural material is perfectly formed into an elegant design. A studio is also where fine cigars are crafted. Welcome to Studio 21. Where a very special cigar was created and named fittingly ‘Studio 21‘. These are the words […]
On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic, our own David Garofalo had a chance to visit the factory where ADVentura Cigars are made. During the trip, sample after sample left him in awe of what the factory was doing. We even smoked the ADVentura King’s Gold on a recent episode of The Cigar Authority where both Ed Sullivan and I (Barry) were definitely intrigued. Now that the cigar has landed to us I decided […]
When you see a cigar on the shelf at a cigar at this price you wonder, how good can this be and how can they make any money. According to the folks at El Artista, “They say money isn’t everything and they are right; this blend is priced so low you will question how we even make any money. The answer is: we make cigars, not money.” If the name El Artista sounds familiar it […]
Turning 85 is a big deal, and Tabacalera Palma wanted to do something just as exciting to commemorate this incredible feat. When they sat down to think of ways to accurately convey what this occasion meant to them, they decided to consult their fathers. Jochy Blanco revisited dozens of scribbles and stand-alone paragraphs in his father’s notebooks and reexamined the tobacco growing and processing wisdom of two generations, along with the cigar manufacturing wisdom of one generation. […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… What does it cost to make your own brand? Is it worth it? What else should you do? Micky Pegg has been in the industry in lots of forms, Now a brand owner with All Saints Cigars, we will ask him this question as we pull back the curtain on costs! In the first hour we will smoke the […]
Originally released in 2012, Timeless became one of the Nat Sherman brands associated with Michael Herklots when he worked for the New Jersey based company. However, when Altria bought Nat Sherman in 2017, the writing was on the wall that the cigar brands would eventually be discontinued. In August of 2020 the company announced that Nat Sherman cigars would cease to exist and some credit is to be given to them for allowing Michael Herklots […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… we welcome Brad Jarvis the New England Sales Representative from JC Newman/Diamond Crown Cigars as we discuss dumb things people do to (or with) Cigars. Just when you think you heard them all… Dave shares his list of the worst 10 and the panel will be sure to chime in with things they have seen or heard. In the […]