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La Gloria Cubana Artesanos Retro Especiale Club
My love affair with La Gloria Cubana started in the mid 90s. You could buy them right from the El Credito factory on Calle Ocho in Miami, and for $5 less you could get a bundle instead of a box. Then they opened the factory in the Dominican Repuplic and there were the people that prefered the Miami rolled cigars over the ones from the DR, even though they were using the exact same raw materials. I could never tell the difference, but that really doesn’t mean anything. Continue reading
A Couple La Gloria Cubana Cigars and One That Used To Be a Favorite…
Sunday afternoon turned out to be a fairly nice day, so I thought I’d pick something on the larger side. I have been enjoying a box of La Gloria Cubana Artesanos Retro Especiale Cubano for about a year and a half, and hadn’t had one in a while. This is a 6.5 x 58 parejo with a lighter colored wrapper that is a special cross bred Connecticut grown in Honduras. The idea behind this cigar was to have a fairly neutral wrapper that doesn’t overshadow the blend. I took a late afternoon walk with the dog and enjoyed the heck out of this smoke. It’s a smooth and flavorful blend that was very enjoyable. The quality of the tobaccos and the construction is obvious, it’s one of the reasons that the La Gloria Cubana line has been among my favorites over the past 15 years or so. Certainly there have been changes, and there have been a lot of line extensions, but there have been very few LGCs that I haven’t enjoyed over the years. Continue reading
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CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways Day 11: La Gloria Cubana
Today on CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways we have something very special! We have not only a box of La Gloria Cubana Artesanos Retro Especiale Clubs, which would be a wonderful prize on its own, but a selection of about 30 LA Gloria Cubana Artesanos de Tabaqueros, a bunch of which are Sumatra/Broadleaf versions only available on the Retro Tour stops. That’s right, you can’t buy these cigars! I can tell you from past experience, all of these cigars are outstanding! There are also a couple of nice tubes as well as a La Gloria cutter thrown on top of everything. Continue reading
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A Saturday Afternoon of La Gloria Cubanas
I received an e-mail from Famous Smoke Shop last week about the La Gloria Cubana Retro Especiale tour stop and decided this would be the perfect opportunity to finally visit their new location in Easton, PA. I don’t quite know why I haven’y yet visited the place, it’s a little over an hour and a half from home, although it ended up taking two hours or so to get there. The retail shop and Leaf Restaraunt and Cigar Bar appears to be in the front of their huge warehouse and distribution center. Continue reading
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A Zeus Churchill Cigar and CigarCraig.com’s 12th Anniversary
It was on this day in 2009 that CigarCraig.com was born, a birthday present from my wife. As I’ve told the story before, I had no idea what I would do with the URL, really didn’t much know what a blog or blogger was, so I had to figure something out. I had spent time on USENET, and the thought of trying to build yet another informational site seemed daunting and redundant. So there was this blog thing. I never was much of a writer, so it started pretty abysmally, but I figured I’d just start writing about some cigars I smoked and places I went and stuff I did, just like I used to do on USENET. Continue reading
