This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… We discuss the story of a cigar company that went up in flames because of a war they were never part of. Additionally we share the winner of the 2022 Cigar Draft! This week we will light up two cigars from the care package… Hammer + Sickle Tradicion and Hermitage Toro. Join us for all of this and […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire…Sometime as consumers, we buy the Sizzle and not the Steak. It certainly happens in the cigar industry where sometime elaborate packaging takes priority over the cigar itself. The greatest cigar packaging of all time as we are joined live in studio by Erik Wentworth of Hammer + Sickle Cigars. In the first hour we will smoke the Trademark Maduro […]
This week we welcome Erik Wentworth from Hammer + Sickle Cigars as we feature two cigars from the Care Package. In the first hour we will light up the Hammer + Sickle Series Unidas which was a collaboration between Hammer + Sickle and United Cigars. It’s a smoke that started its planning stage with the late Eric Hanson and we will you all about it before we move on to the 2nd cigar which is […]
This morning as I pulled into work the Executive Vice President of Hammer + Sickle, Erik Wentworth had just pulled in front of me. As we enjoyed our morning coffee he handed me today’s cigar which he delivered to 2GuysCigars.com after being out of stock for a short bit. Cigar Review: Hammer + Sickle Trademark Wrapper: Ecuador Connecticut Binder: Dominican Republic Filler: Dominican Republic Length: 5″ Ring Gauge: 50 Size: Robusto The Look: The Hammer + Sickle Trademark gets a packaging change, gone are […]
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, […]
This morning I had no idea what I wanted to smoke when I came in to work. That dilemma was solved when Eric Wentworth the sales manager for Klin tobacco walked in the door. I opted at that point to light up the cigar that was featured at my wedding back in September. According to the Hammer + Sickle website, “Trademark series Connecticut is the quintessential mild cigar. Boasting a four-year aged golden Connecticut shade wrapper Trademark […]
At the 2015 IPCPR show down in Louisiana, Hammer & Sickle Cigars introduced a line extension of their Trademark Series. In place of the natural Connecticut shade wrapper the original is known for, the Hammer & Sickle Trademark Maduro features just that; a dark and toothy Mexican San Andreas maduro wrapper. This isn’t my first go around with this cigar, and I’m a fan for several reason, so let me tell you why. What am I […]
This week we are on the road in Goffstown, New Hampshire for Barry’s Wedding. Broadcasting live from the La Flor Dominicana studios, we will sit down and meet the bride that was crazy enough to accept his proposal. We will sit down with the official sponsor of the wedding Hammer + Sickle Cigars & Vodka as well as meet the Best Man. Join us as we light up the Hammer + Sickle Trademark Natural and […]
This week the Cigar Authority is broadcasting live from Two Guys Smoke Shop in Nashua, NH from the La Flor Dominicana Studios. We welcome to the show Eric Wentworth from Hammer + Sickle Cigars as we light up past Cigar of the Year winner, Hammer + Sickle Trademark. We will also unveil the seven cigars that are The Contenders for Cigar of the Year. In the second hour we will light up the La Galera […]
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 […]