This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Toscano cigars are made in Italy, and today will go through The New – MASTER AGED Toscano, with Michael Capellini from Toscano Cigars. Plus we have the feast of the Seven Fishes, TCA Style! The power of the care package as turned a lot of people on to Toscano Cigars and today we smoke the Toscano Master Aged Series […]
This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… We discuss cigar smoking etiquette… Whether you are new to cigar smoking or a pro… What to-do and what Not to-do… that is the question and we have an answer. In the first hour we light up the Montosa Maduro from the care package and in the second hour we fire the Terra Nova Dark Fired Kentucky… Join […]
This weekend Two Guys Smoke Shop hosted a dinner with Michael Cappellini from Toscano Cigars as we learned about the history of the Italian brand. One of the cigars featured at the dinner was the Duecento, Originally launch in Europe in 2018, the cigar has made its debut in the USA in 2020. Like most Toscano cigars it features fire cured tobacco, giving it the unique taste Toscano is known for. It was created to […]
The beautiful town of Cava de’ Tirreni, located in the Southern region of Campania is home to the famous “half cut”, aromatic Toscano cigars known the Toscanello. The Toscanello line has been seeing incredible growth in recent years, with the Toscanello Rosso Caffè (the cigar with Aromatic intensity of your favourite morning espresso and notes of almond) holding the number one spot in aromatic cigars, worldwide. The Toscanello line embodies everything indicative of authentic Italian […]
This past weekend we welcomed Michael Cappellini of Toscano Cigars to The Cigar Authority where we smoked the Garibaldi which was part of the January Care Package. According to the Toscano website the cigar was born of a a brilliant idea by Mario Soldati, the TOSCANO® Garibaldi cigar was introduced in 1982 to celebrate the centenary of the death of the Italian hero. Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general and a patriot who contributed […]
This week we take a trip to Italy, in spirit as we welcome Michael Cappellini the Brand Ambassador from Toscano Cigars. He’ll tell us about the oldest cigar company in Italy and how his own family history has ties to the Italian company. We’ll light up the Toscano Classico in the first hour and pair it with a nice Espresso as we share our thoughts as the members of the care package smoke it along […]
Toscano Cigars first came to be in 1815, but had it not been for Christopher Columbus traveling to America in 1492 history may have written a different story. In 1868, the company was making 140 million cigars a year. The Originale was the first cigar made by Toscano but in 1970 the company stopped producing them when they abandoned hand rolled cigars. Fortunately in 1985, due to a strong response from consumers the company decided […]