I’m out on the porch again this week, typing away and smoking a La Mezcla Cubana with my coffee. This week it’s Autumn, and I have to wear pants and a long sleeve shirt. It could be a lot worse! I’m going to work backwards this time and talk about this cigar I’m smoking. I want to say close to ten years ago Victor Vitale 
sold his portfolio to Dave Garofalo, which included ORTSAC, La Mezcla Cubana and another brand I can’t think of right now. Victor went on to make Tortuga Cigars, which were great, then moved into other businesses and has, sadly, vanished from the cigar industry. I miss Victor, and Tortuga cigars (I have a small collection in the humidor). Anyway, one of the cigars that United Cigar Co. had at the PCA show this year was the new La Mezcla Cubana, offered in one vitola, a 4½ x 54 Rothschild with what appears to be a shade grown wrapper. The box says Connecticut, but the description says it’s a Nicaraguan puro, made in the Dominican Republic. The cigar is good, and it retails for $6, hard to beat. It has a sugar cane sweetness here and there, with some nuttiness. I never had the original, but this one is very nice.
I bought some Casa Cuevas Sangre Nueva Double Perfectos this week (TY BL Luxuries, great service!) and smoked one and it was really good. I’m digging this blend! I was talking to Luigi of CigarMedics this week and he reminded me that I had talked to his 
friends at Neverash Cigars at the PCA show, so I dug out the sample they gave me to smoke yesterday. This cigar was the Torpedo, a box pressed 6″ x 52 cigar with a San Andrés wrapper, Dominican fillers and a Sumatra binder, made at the WIlliam Ventura factory. I have to admit, I haven’t had a lot of cigars made at that factory that I really liked. This one was an exception. I quite enjoyed this, it was different for a San Andrés wrapped cigar, more leathery and earthy than sweet. I used the Cigar Medics The Baller cutter on this, a torpedo takes two or three cuts, but does a nice job on a torpedo. I’ve been using thi cutter non-stop since I got it several months ago and it’s really cool. I have a lot of cutters, this is the coolest. Anyway, NeverAsh is small, I don’t think they have gotten into retail yet, but they sell direct (which may be a stumbling block). They are $12 cigars, the one I smoked was pretty good.
Not a lot this week, hopefully I’ll smoke some interesting cigars this week. Honestly, I find myself wanting to smoke cigars I’m familiar with recently, maybe it’s to get through this time of year, or I’m just getting old. Some days I don’t want to have to wonder if I’m going to have a positive experience or not! Believe me, there are cigars I don’t bother to write about. Follow my Instagram, draw conclusions! That’s all for today, until the next time,
CigarCraig
