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VODCast: What Do I Do With My Cigar Band

This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… What can I do with my cigar bands & a big announcement of the END of a CIGAR BAND & BRAND & an offer you can’t refuse! All this as we get ready for Two Guys 37th Anniversary Party! We will fire up two cigars from The Cigar Authority Care Package….. The Berlin Wall Box Pressed Robusto and […]

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VODCast: The Cigar Authority Remembers Eric Hanson

As you may know by now Eric Hanson from Hammer + Sickle passed away this week. Today, The Cigar Authority will be joined by Hammer + Sickle Nation Sales Manager Erik Wentworth as we reflect on our very close friend. We’ll do this while smoking a Hammer + Sickle Hermitage in the first hour and a Moscow City that was limited to just 1,000 boxes of which Dave was personally gifted a sign box. With […]

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IPCPR 2017: Hammer + Sickle Cigars

Hammer + Sickle the maker of my favorite Vodka, produces a line of cigars that include Tradicion, Trademark, Hermitage, Moscow City and Berlin Wall. The company is releasing the Berlin Wall box pressed later this year, in 10 count boxes. Director of Sales Erik Wentworth showed us this new cigar which we’ve been lucky enough to sample and it has quickly become a favorite. As reported a few weeks earlier on The Cigar Authority podcast, […]

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Hammer + Sickle Museum Edition Moscow City Cigar Review

Over the last couple of months Eric Hanson has been a regular visitor to The Cigar Authority studios. After all their offices are about 20 minutes to the south of us. During that time frame we have heard and discussed the Museum Edition from concept to completion including seeing the prototype. This week, the Hammer + Sickle Museum Series has arrived. The packaging is almost as divine as the cigar. Read on to hear our experience of […]

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Moscow City Museum Edition Cigar Review

Over the last couple of months Eric Hanson has been a regular visitor to The Cigar Authority studios. After all their offices are about 20 minutes to the south of us. During that time frame we have heard and discussed the Museum Edition from concept to completion including seeing the prototype. This week, the Hammer + Sickle Museum Series has arrived and we are ecstatic about receiving them. The packaging is almost as divine as he cigar. […]

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Hammer + Sickle Unveils Museum Series

Today via Twitter; Hammer + Sickle unveiled the forthcoming Museum Series set to be released at IPCPR. The image was accompanied with the quote, “When is a cigar jar more than a cigar jar? When it is a global icon of course.” The jar is designed to look like the spires of the world renown St. Petersburg Church of the Savior of Spilled Blood (Церковь Спаса на Крови). The church was designed by Alfred Alexandrovich Parland, a […]

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Hammer + Sickle Double Eagle

With the boys of Hammer + Sickle located in Massachusetts just over the border from New Hampshire we get to see Eric Hanson and Erik Wentworth on a semi-regular basis. Over the last month or so we have been smoking the Double Eagle which began shipping yesterday. Limited to just 170 boxes of boxes of 10 the Double Eagle is the perfect marriage of Nicaraguan tobacco and Honduran craftmanship. This cigar boasts full flavor, remarkable construction […]

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Cigar Review | Hermitage No. 1

The other day in a Facebook conversation about box-press Cigars on the Two Guys Smoke Shop page, Mr. Jonathan mentioned the Hermitage being one of his favorite box-pressed cigars. As luck would have it Erik Wentworth from Hammer + Sickle cigars stopped by and handed me the cigar that will be used for today’s review. According the their website, “A medium to full body cigar Hermitage No.1 delivers distinct complexity, and is truly a smoke that […]

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News | So You Want To Be A Cigar Representative?

Our friends at Klin Tobbaco, the makers of Hammer + Sickle Cigars are growing and as a result they are looking to hire a New England Sales Representative and they requested we help get the word out. Do you have what it takes to representative one of the hottest brands in New England? Then make sure you read the requirements and directions on how to reply very carefully. Sales Representative About the Job Klin Tobacco, […]

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News | Berlin Wall Celebration Short Corona

Eric Hanson stopped by The Cigar Authority today to share with us information on the release of a special cigar to celebrate the tearing down of the Berlin Wall which came down on November 9th, Rolled 5 years ago, the Berlin Wall Celebration Short Corona measure 4.75 x 46 and features a Honduran Criollo wrapper over binder and fillers from Honduras. Only 5,000 sticks were produced and will carry an MSRP of $5.00 As an […]

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