cigars
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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 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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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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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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According to the Molon Labe website, company owner Steven Bartell while traveling in Miami ran into a master blender from Cuba, who gave him one of his cigars. Bartell liked it so much that he founded the Molon Labe company to distribute them. Talk about being in the right place at the right time… The
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The Aladino Corojo Reserva No. 4 was an annual release for several years from JRE Tobacco, featuring higher priming leaves from their authentic Honduran Corojo that were aged between 4-5 years. Each release was limited to 800 boxes. The cigar has a reddish-brown wrapper and is tightly rolled. In spite of its firmness, it offers
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Pastor Padron sits with Liz Santos, aka @remarkable_liz, co-owner of Noble Cigars. You might be tempted to think she is just a pretty face using cigars to build her social media persona, but you would be wrong! During our conversation, we delve into her personal journey into the world of cigars. We talk about her
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Can you relight a cigar after it has gone out for a while? Yes you can! In this video Pastor Padron shows you how!
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 