Back in August we attended the Drew Estate Connecticut Barnsmoker, and came home with a boatload of cool goodies! Normally I would have a simple contest, but with this amount of great Drew Estate gear and cigars, I wanted to try to do some good. It’s tricky, but I’ve decided to put a fundraiser on Facebook, and ask people to donate to what I consider a worthy charity.… Continue reading
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La Flor Dominicana Solis, Gurkha Pure Evil and Founders Roosevelt Cigars
I smoked a few PCA show samples this week, some I was looking forward to, some not so much, maybe. The first was the La Flor Dominicana Solis, the first cigar blended by Litto Gomez, Jr., who is in his early 20’s. This 6½ x 50 cigar is a companion, of sorts, to the La Nox line, which his older brother, Tony, created a few years ago.… Continue reading
Gran Habano 20th Aniversario and Persian King Cigars
I had the opportunity to smoke a couple new offerings from Gran Habano Cigars this week. Gran Habano is a pretty good sized cigar company, sadly I don’t see their cigars in my local brick and mortar stores. I’d probably smoke more of them if they were, I really like the Corojo No.5 and Persian King cigars.… Continue reading
News: The Return of Rocky Patel Olde World Reserve
This is kinda interesting. I remember the Olde World Reserve being pretty tasty, and I might have an old lancero floating around somewhere. These are the ones that used to have a homogenized tobacco paper sleeve, right? Phillips and King seems to be more prevalent on the west half of the country I think, maybe I’m wrong about that. I’ll have to ask my local store owners about that.
Phillips & King now exclusively distributing the much-sought-after cigar in Corojo and Maduro. … Continue reading
Epic, La Sirena and Brickhouse Cigars
There was a lot of news last week, and I didn’t get to most of them, but one I wanted to touch on was from Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG, owner of General and Forged Cigars and. Cigars International. The press release was announcing an exclusive with Southern Draw, but what I found interesting was that this was the first time I had heard of Cigora,… Continue reading
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