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Cornell &Diehl’s Small Batch: The Beast is on the way. Perique, one of the rarest, most expensive, and labor-intensive tobaccos on the market–and one that is most often used as a supporting component is the main ingredient in The Beast. Is this going to be a hit, or is The Beast just another marketing ploy?
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Twins Smoke Shop has been bringing in some HU Tobacco blends, the latest being Nyala. I have been waiting for this to come in, but was it worth the wait?
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Since its release, Selected Tobacco’s Atabey brand has become a sought after super-premium brand. The Atabey Brujos, Ritos, and Duendes are among my favorite cigars. Atabey is a limited production brand with only a few hundred boxes of each size released in a given year. Several years ago, Nelson released a maduro variant of the…
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CANH “Fiddlehead” by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust is a limited edition made for member stores of the Cigar Association of New Hampshire (CANH). Production was around 700 10 count boxes MSRP: $189.99 – $18.99 per cigar, with a significant portion of the price going to CANH which represents and lobbies for cigar rights in the…
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The Sobremesa Solita Red is a revamped blend of the Cervantes Fino vitola of the original Sobremesa line. According to Steve Saka, it is supposed to be a “bolder and richer version…still distinctly Sobremesa, but with just that extra bit of pizazz that takes it from being a great cigar to an exceptional one.” I…
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Cornell & Diehl’s Anthology 2023 is a limited release celebrating the company’s 31st anniversary. This blend is a flake composed of four high-grade Red Virginias from 2013, 2019, and 2022. The tin I reviewed was dated November 20, 2023. The aroma from the tin is reminiscent of sweet hay and dried fruit. The moisture level…
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Originally branded as Metapa, Foundation Cigar Co. changed the name to Aksum last year. The cigar band features a portrait of Ras Makonnen, a 19th-century governor of the region now known as Ethiopia. This rebranding continues Foundation’s biblical theme seen in the Tabernacle and David and Goliath series, as Aksum is believed to be the…
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Get ready to don your suits, dresses, and flat caps! Join us for one of the most exciting pipe events of the year! Our 5th Annual Petey Blinders event is happening on Saturday, March 8th at Twins Smoke Shop, 80 Perkins Road, Londonderry, NH from 12:00-4:00pm! This year, the Petey Blinders event is bigger and…
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Lately I have been spending some time at our Hooksett location, and while I has going through what was available for tobaccos, I came across this tin of G.L. Pease Fillmore, with a stamped tin date of 12/21/21. I noticed that the tin was a bit bowed and not sitting flat. Fillmore is a VAper…
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Gawith Hoggarth’s Sweet Peach is a ribbon blend of Virginia, Burley, and Cavendish with a light peach topping. The tin note is sweet but not as “peachy” as I expected. It is almost like a peach meringue. The tobacco is very moist but lights up fairly well right out of the tin, though a few…
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 