For me Swag has been a cigar I’ve enjoyed but I feel like it’s one of those cigars that didn’t really catch on because of the branding. Case in point is the size I am smoking today, Infamous. The word is defined as someone or something that is famous for a bad reason. Infamous for a cigar sounds like it should be a dog rocket. However, I know that is not the cast with the […]
I’m just coming down off the high of the IPCPR Cigar Trade Show in Orlando Florida. This week long parade of new cigars and accessories literally had my head spinning. As a buyer for one of, if not the largest selling shops in the world, can you just imagine what I go through? Everyone is excited about their new brands and new items and so am I, but when you take thousands of new products and put them all together and are force fed them by some of the best salesman in the country one after one, day after day, something gets lost. Ten cigars in by noon on day one will make what seems to be paradise into brutally obnoxious. And some great new cigars are wasted on me…