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 […]
Last summer Hammer + Sickle cigars released the first museum series featuring an aged Moscow City. We’ve recently found out that Series 2 of The Museum Series would be coming out soon. It’s been something that has seen numerous delays, but it is our understanding the release is right around the corner. We decided to revisit the first release today in honor of the news that the second jar is coming soon! Cigar Review: Moscow City […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
This morning, David Garofalo gave us a look at the Hammer + Sickle Museum Series. Our our Gianna Garofalo catches up with the head of Hammer + Sickle who tells us about the jar designed to look like the spires of the world renown St. Petersburg Church of the Savior of Spilled Blood (Церковь Спаса на Крови). The cigar was reviewed on The Cigar Authority where it got a 93 rating. Other great cigars from Hammer […]
David Garofalo gives us a look at the Hammer + Sickle Museum Edition. 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 little-known artist at the time who was born in St. Petersburg to a Baltic-German Lutheran family in 1842. Inside the beautifully crafted packaging, the Hammer + Sickle Museum Series […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]