This week we welcome Rafael Nodal, the owner of Boutique Blends to the show where we will light up his new Gran Retorno that is set to debut at IPCPR in Las Vegas. We will find out what to expect from the maestro behind Aging Room this year. In the second hour we will dig into the Care Package and light up the Zino Z-Class while breaking down some of the insane amount of new […]
This past weekend on The Cigar Authority podcast we smoked the Aging Room M356 which was part of December care package. As we will be doing from now on; the Monday after the show we will do a full review of a cigar that was featured on the episode. The Aging Room by Rafael Nodal’s Boutique Blends and is made at Tabacalera La Palma under Jochi Blanco and was launched in 2011. The original Aging […]
While The Cigar Authority is collectively the team of David Garofalo; Mr. Jonathan Barbeau, Chuck Morrison and yours truly; the blog sometimes takes on a personal note as it is my style of writing. Today’s cigar reflects on that. This week it was announced that Charlie Lopez was named Director of Sales for Boutique Blends and as luck would have it he showed up at the offices of The Cigar Authority just the other day. Living in […]
Two Saturdays ago I was awakened at 4am with severe chest pains that I thought was a heart attack. After my girlfriend convinced me to go to the hospital, the pains subsided as we neared the Emergency Room and I opted not to go in. Three days later the same pains returned at work and my coworkers convinced me to go to Urgent Care where I was diagnosed with gallstones. Long story short it’s time […]
This morning, Rafael Nodal sent out an email officially announcing the new Aging Room Bin No. 1 D Major Box Press. The cigars will come 18 to a box with each stick in an individual coffin. According to Rafael Nodal, “The excellent Full Body blend of the Bin No. 1 gets even better in this 54 x 6 box pressed creation for a sophisticated and refined smoking experience.” The Bin No. 1 D Major will be available at […]
According to a published report in Cigar Insider that was shared by Rafael Nodal, owner of Boutique Blends the aforementioned company is collaborating with Altadis USA in the creation of Romeo by Romeo y Julieta Aging Room. According to the report, the experimental project will allowed Rafael Nodal to create his own interpretation of the brand, Romeo u Julieta. In order to achieved this taste he will be utilized the tobaccos of Jose “Jochy” Blanco. […]
This past week on The Cigar Authority we ran through the cigars that we personally thought should have made the Contenders Pack. During the course of the show, David mentioned he felt La Boheme should have been a contender. Realizing I have yet to review the cigar I mentioned on the show that we would take a look at the cigar released at the 2014 IPCPR in Las Vegas. The cigar which is named after […]
The cigar I have been most looking forward to smoking since hearing about it just before the IPCPR Trade Show is the Aging Room Bin No. 1. Made by Rafael Nodal, the Aging Room is a line of cigars that has gotten a lot of deserved notoriety lately. This past year they had the No. 1 available cigar in the USA according to Cigar Aficionado. Well they have arrived at my home shop, and site sponsor 2guyscigars.com […]