Broadcasting LIVE from the Toscano Cigar Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… The Cigar Smoking World Championship Event was supposed to be in New Hampshire this weekend, But we are going to have our own championship today and we have 1,000 people joining us doing the same thing. In the first hour we light up the Rocky Patel Cigar World Championship Cigar in its official competition size to see who will be the winner. In […]
LIVE from the Toscano Cigar Sound Stage… Spring is in the Air… it’s the 1st show of the spring season and it’s time to go outside here in New England and light up cigars.In the first hour we welcome George Rico of Gran Habano to the show. He was scheduled to be here in the studio but due to travel restrictions he joins us live via remote in Miami, Florida as we smoke the Gran […]
The Cigar Authority comes to you live from the Toscano Cigar Sound Stage and this week we ask the question, is this the end of flavored cigars in the United States. Cigars are under fire (pun intended) and flavored cigars even more so. Law makers are trying to kill it and the fight has divided the cigar industry. How did this happen and what is the future? Is it good or is it bad? Tune […]
It’s the moment Mr. Jonathan has waited for. This week he gets in David’s pants although I am not sure it turned out how he expected. Dave and Ed Sullivan are away so Mr. J plays the role of Dave and Barry the role of Ed. In the first hour they will fire up the Dos Hombres Candela as St. Patrick’s Day is a week away. Due to popular demand we will revisit the GHOST […]
It’s one of the most popular shows of the year, as David Garofalo sits down and lets us know the state of the cigar industry. Is there growth? What countries are producing? What are the trends? What does the future hold? We go over the stats and debate them while smoking the Hammer + Sickle Tradicion Churchill. We will then welcome to the show Erik Wentworth the Vice President of Hammer + Sickle Cigars as […]
Easily one of our most popular episodes each year is where we make our annual predictions about the Top 10 from Cigar Aficionado. Barry, David, Ed, and Mr. Jonathan will offer their own Top 10 list for each magazine. How accurate will they be? With the lists coming out soon we won’t have long to wait… We will also light up something from Southern Draw Cigars as we sit down with Robert Holt and find […]
What started in 2010, The Cigar Authority has become the longest actively running podcast in the Cigar Industry. Over’ the year we’ve grown and our cigar is now heard all over the world thanks to apps like Podbean, YouTube, iHeart Radio, Spreaker, Google play and iTunes. It’s safe to assume we are the most listened to show on Cigars in the world. Join us as we light up two cigars from the November Care Package. […]
Today on The Cigar Authority we light up two cigars that have some rarity attached to them. In the first hour we will light up Pappy Van Winkle from Drew Estate. We’ll try not to take a 20 year nap, as we tell you the story of Rip and Julian “Pappy” Van Winkle. It’s also not the first cigar to have ties to the liquor industry and we will discuss how the two industries have […]
You’ve heard us hype up over the last few weeks the fact that we have a mystery guest joining us. Today is the day that all the secrets will be let out of the bag as our guest will tell you everything you wanted to know and perhaps things you wish you would have never known. We will smoke a cigar in the first hour that has ties to our guest, and is as rare […]
It’s International Podcast Day and the grand opening of Studio 21 Podcast Cafe. We look at the history of the podcast and explain how International Podcast Day began. But fear not my cigar smoking friends as we have some cigars to enjoy as well. In the first hour we light up the last cigar of The Cigar Authority care package for the month of September. Last Call comes to us from AJ Fernandez and we […]