This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Last year Dave predicted that Alec Bradley would be sold, what will he predict this year? It’s the Prediction Show – a yearly look into the future. Who buys who, who goes out of business and even who gets back in business. Mergers, Acquisitions – Smoke and Mirrors. In the first hour we smoke the Nub Maduro from […]
More than a decade ago, I made the move from NYC to Miami where I began working at Miami Cigar & Company. One of my greatest memories was heading down to Esteli, Nicaragua with Jason Wood VP of Miami Cigars and Eddie Ortega who was in the process of launching his own lines. During this trip Jason and I were tasked on creating a cigar for the Nestor Miranda Special Selection line to bring back […]
Today we review Tatuaje Selection de Cazador also known as the brown label. I am taken back to a conversation I had with a former business associate when the brand first came out and I was smoking them like crazy. The conversation basically went, why are you smoking that, no one will know who Tatuaje is in a few years ago. This was at the start of the brand, and one can argue Pete Johnson […]
Miami Cigar & Company celebrated its 30th Anniversary by bringing back a line that was a fan favorite. The Nestor Miranda Special Selection was the signature line of the company. The Special Selection was originally introduced in 2006 and was available in two wrappers at the time of its release, Habano Rosado and a dark Habano Oscuro. In 2012, the company added a Connecticut wrapper to the original release. During their 25th Anniversary in 2014, […]
When you think of My Father Cigars you don’t think of Connecticut wrapped cigars. As a result, today’s cigar is often overlooked on retailers shelves or the company portfolio. I smoked it when it first came out in 2014, but can’t recall smoking since. So today I reached on to the shelf and pulled a couple out for review here on The Cigar Authority. Cigar: My Father Connecticut Wrapper: Ecuador Connecticut Binder: Nicaragua Corojo ’99 Filler: Nicaragua (Habano, Criollo) […]
15 years ago, Don Pepin Garcia opened his cigar factory in Little Havana, a section of Miami that is home to a large Cuban population. From his small storefront he would begin the steps at building an empire for him and his family. To celebrate, the company that is now based in Doral, another section of Miami with a factory in Nicaragua has released a cigar that is limited to just 2,000 boxes of 14. […]
The Tobacconist Association of America is under way in the Dominican Republic and earlier this week we displayed the list of limited edition cigars coming out at this year. In addition to the limited edition cigars some sticks are made available early to the 75 retailers that make up the TAA. The Nestor Miranda 75th Anniversary was on display at TAA which leads to speculation that it might be released early to members of the […]
One of my favorite stories to tell took place between 2003-2005, when a sales representative visited the cigar shop I, Barry was partners in. Glen Gutin came in pitching cigars, by Don Pepin Garcia, who he said was the next big thing and will be one of the hottest cigar manufactures in the industry. We smoked the cigars, and ordered them on the spot. 30 boxes of a couple of different lines. A big order […]
If the FDA has their way I will really miss the release of the Limited Edition, as today’s limited edition and many limited edition cigars don’t meet the predicate date as it stands. In the end it hurts the cigar industry as a whole, but as a consumer I would suffer the greatest loss because much to a retailers dismay, I want what is new. Today’s cigar is new in the sense that it is […]
Today our sister podcast, The Ashholes is broadcasting live from Two Guys Smoke Shop with Jeremy Soares from My Father Cigars. We affectionately refer to him as beetlejuice because if you say his name three times he is bound to show up. Thankfully today that won’t be the case (I kid, I kid!) as he will be not he show and you never know what will come out of the Portuguese Hammer’s mouth. You can […]