This week, it”s The Cigar Authority Meatball Live! If you’re a first-timer, brace yourself for the 6th annual Meatball Cookoff, where five talented contestants create 50 mouthwatering meatballs each. Picture this: 50 attendees savoring all five creations without a clue about who crafted each meatball. It’s a thrilling blind taste test, and only those who purchased tickets get to cast their votes for their favorite meatball. The contestant with the most votes not only clinches […]
Dunbarton, NH – Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® (DTT) is announcing their intention to delay nationwide distribution of their Polpetta puros. “Normally delays from intended release dates are the result of either the cigars and/or the packaging not being ready, but this is not the case for Polpetta – the cigars are already landed and aging in our US warehouse. It is simply a matter of operational logistics and doing what we believe is in the […]
A very special live broadcast of The Cigar Authority from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… It’s the 2023 Meatball… For the last two years Oliver Nivaud of United Cigars has won the event and for the 6th year Mr. Jonathan is trying to escape from the bottom. For those joining this for the 1st time… It is a Meatball Competition (6th Annual) 5 Contestants make 50 Meatballs each. 50 People try All-5 […]
Join us for a special broadcast of The Cigar Authority live from SOLD-OUT Meat Ball. Who will win? We will interview the reigning champion Oliver Nivaud from United Cigars as well as the challengers including Michael Cappellini (Toscano Cigars), Jonathan Carney (La Flor Dominicana), Carmin Addessa (Two Guys Smoke Shop Employee) and Mr. Jonathan. Will Oliver Nivaud repeat? If Michael Cappellini loses, can he show his face at Toscano? Can Jonathan Carney redeem himself from […]
The week LIVE from the Toscano Cigar Sound Stage… The Meatball Event is over, and we have Steve Saka with us to give you his take on the event and we may learn some breaking news of what he has planned in the cigar world in the near future. Then again, we may not! In the first hour we smoke Mi Querida from The Cigar Authority Care Package. In the second hour we see […]
Broadcasting LIVE from the Toscano Cigar Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… It is a New Year and TODAY we will release The Cigar Authority’s NEW LOGO,… Speaking of New, we will light up the La Aurora 107 Nicaraguan, made in the Dominican Republic as we talk with the blender, Master Blender Manual Inoa. In the second hour we will announce the 2021 Meatball event as we smoke the Polpetta from Steve Saka. We will have […]
In 2018 the members of The Cigar Authority began talking about who had the best meatball between David Garofalo, Mr. Jonathan Barbeau, Ed Sullivan and yours truly Barry Stein. But then something happened where Steve Saka joined the debate and an event was held in January of 2019 where we each would make 50 meatballs and guest of an event at Two Guys Smoke Shop would get to vote for the winner. Steve Saka wound […]
Fresh off his North American Sales Meeting in Doral, Florida we welcome Brand Ambassador Michael Cappellini of Toscano Cigars to the show. We catch up with him to see how 2019 was, how 2020 is shaping up as he visits us Live at the Toscano Sound Stage of Studio. He is bringing with him some of his award winning Limoncello as we drink up and smoke a cigar from the care package, Toscano Garibaldi. In […]