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Rocky Patel has created several cigars to commemorate 2025 as the Year of the Snake according to the Chinese zodiac calendar. For the American market, the cigar is the Rocky Patel Year of the Snake Toro. It is produced at the company’s TAVICUSA factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, with a limited production of just 6,000 boxes…
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The Red Meat Lovers Fritanga is a new addition to the Red Meat Lovers lineup, officially launched at this year’s PCA. It is blended to be a bolder version of Steve Saka’s Red Meat Lovers brand, which, according to the Dunbarton website, are a “maduro liga that was created intentionally to be smoked after enjoying…
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The Bandolero Premium Ironicos was crafted to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Selected Tobacco’s Bandolero line. Only 300 boxes of each size were released, and the cigars were aged for three years before hitting the market. The cigar boasts a smooth, golden brown wrapper with a solid feel and tight pack, showing no soft spots.…
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The other day, I was scrolling through a news feed and came across an article with the tagline: “Publix to close all 1,448 stores for 24 hours as it joins retail ‘blackout’.” Curious about what this blackout referred to and which other chains were joining in, I soon discovered that the retail blackout meant closing…
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Erik Stokkebye of 4th Generation Tobacconist and Chacom are making a special limited edition bent Dublin pipe for the Pipe Club at Twins Smoke Shop. In this video, I unbox and initially light one of these pipes, delivered to me by Erik at PCA. Fifty of these special pipes will be arriving in May or…
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The HVC Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Half Corona just arrived. At 3.5 x 44 it looks like it takes longer to say its name than to smoke it. Is this little cigar worth looking up? The HVC Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Half Corona may have one of the longest…
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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…
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 