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by CigarCraig | December 19, 2015 · 6:37 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015 Day 9: Smoke Inn Microblends

Several years ago Abe at Smoke Inn, a chain of ten (or eleven?) stores in Florida, launched his Microblend series. He’s had some of the greatest cigar manufacturers on the planet making small batch, store exclusive cigars for him, including Fuente, Padron, Tatuaje, et cetera. This year Abe has provided two ten count packages of his most current Microblend releases, the Illusione Pactum and the Pope of Greenwich Village from Drew Estate. The Pactum is a 5½” x 56 San Andrés wrapped robusto with high priming Nicaraguan filler, a Box of 15. The Pope of Greenwich Village is 6″ x 40, and has the San Andrés wrapper also, with a Connecticut Stalk-Cut Habano binder and fillers of Brazilian Mata Fina and Nicaraguan tobaccos and comes in a bundle of 10. They both sound delicious, don’t they? Thanks to Abe and his Smoke Inn staff for sending these along. Abe also has a weekly radio show and podcast, Kiss My Ash Radio, which broadcasts every Saturday at 10am Eastern, check it out. Steve Saka is the special guest on today’s show.

This is going to cause some confusion….Yesterday’s winner of the Punch Signature Robustos from General Cigar Co. is Eric. I know there were at least two Eric’s who entered, so it’s the one who didn’t use his full name (sorry Eric W! Try again today). So the Eric who posted around 11:46 AM EST yesterday needs to send me his info. I smoked one of these last night (not from your box!) and it’s a really nice smoke, sweet tobacco goodness and great construction. Thanks to Victoria and all the folks at General Cigar Co.!

You know what to do now, leave a comment here, check back tomorrow to see if you won!

RULES

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on the post of the day, if you can, try to post what you know or how you feel about today’s present, the folks donating the gift should get some feedback for their troubles! It’s not a condition to win, but it’s nice to have something to read. We did this last year and it benefits everyone. Once you’ve won, you’re out, let everyone else have a chance. Must be over 18 to win. Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!

Until tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 18, 2015 · 6:13 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015 Day 8: Punch Cigars

It’s Day Eight, and once again my friends at General Cigar Company have come through with another great present for this year’s event. New this year is the Punch Signature, an Ecuador Corojo wrapped robusto, with a Connecticut Habano binder and fillers from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. These smoke very well, and taste great. As a mater of fact, I have one set aside for tonight, and have really been looking forward to smoking it! It’s a box of eighteen 5″ x 54 Robustos, many thanks to Victoria and everyone at General Cigar Company for today’s treat.

Yesterday we featured a travel humidor vastly improved by the talented artwork of Eric Whitfield, The Cigartist. Make sure you visit his site and buy some of his work to class up your mancave! There is one person who won’t have to buy a piece of his art, and that is Mike Hanna! Please send me your address so I can pass it on to Eric. Thank you to The Cigartist for providing this great item!

You know what to do now, leave a comment here, check back tomorrow to see if you won!

RULES

Until tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 17, 2015 · 6:58 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015 Day 7: The Cigartist

By now you should know me well enough to know that I try to do things a little differently now and then, and today’s present is something very special. Eric Whitfield, The Cigartist, is a talented artist and a cigar lover, and has merged these two passions to create amazing art. I’ve had the great fortune to have met Eric on a couple occasions and he’s a great guy, and he’s been commissioned to do paintings for many luminaries in the cigar industry. His work is pretty fantastic. Eric has provided one of his hand painted fifteen count travel humidors for Day 7. This is a work of art and I’m completely envious of the winner, no that I need another travel humidor, but for the beauty of it. I will have Eric’s art hanging on my wall one of these days. Retail Value on this piece is $150.

Now, this is kind of funny. the winner of the Joya de Nicaragua ashtray, cutter and cigars left the comment “Huge fan of LFD!”, and I was tempted to re-draw because sometimes I can be a wee bit cranky in the morning. I let is slide, who isn’t a fan of LFD? We can also be fans of JdN, right? Anyway, Andrew, please send me your address! I’m sure in his excitement he got mixed up!

You know what to do now, leave a comment here, check back tomorrow to see if you won!

RULES

Until tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 16, 2015 · 6:21 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015 Day 6: Joya de Nicaragua

Day 6, the halfway point of this craziness, features one of my favorite cigar companies, Joya de Nicaragua. I’ve had the good fortune to have visited the factory in Esteli on two occasions and it’s a beautiful place with loads of history. They make some great cigars, and they make some cigars for other people that are among my favorites as well. Several of my “go-to” cigars are made by the fine folks at JdN. Today we have a cool Selección Robusto, a six cigar sampler of robustos from their line, a great Joya de Nicaragua glass ashtray and a Joya de Nicaragua cutter. Let me tell you about these cutters of you don’t know, they work very well! I have a similar version from 2009 that still works great, and people actually collect these. It’s yet another great gift this year, Many thanks to Juan Martinez and his crew at Joya de Nicaragua for providing this.

Tortuga Tuesday was a big hit, and for good reason. The winner, chosen completely at random, and not because of his prose, is Mike Capuzzi! Mike wrote a nice limerick, and while creativity doesn’t play into the selection process, it sure Makes it fun for everyone! Please send me your info so we can arrange to get these into your humidor!

You know what to do now, leave a comment here, check back tomorrow to see if you won!

RULES

Until tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 15, 2015 · 6:22 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2015 Day 5: Tortuga Tuesday!

It’s day five, and it’s Tuesday, so we’re just going to go ahead and call this Tortuga Tuesday! Frequent readers will know that I have a deep affection for the Tortuga brand, and have since it’s inception. Victor Vitale goes to great lengths to produce the best cigars, and today we have an excellent representation of that quality. Today’s spectacular present is 20 of the Tortuga 215 Reserva Tributo, a box pressed, 6″ x 56 super premium cigar made in Honduras. These are a Nicarguan puro, and are complex, refined and sublime. These are packaged in five-packs, not boxed (saving me shipping costs!), I can probably come up with a box if you really want one, but the box count is 27, so you’d just feel shorted :-). It’s better this way, trust me! Many thanks to Victor Vitale for providing these terrific smokes!

Monday’s winner of the terrific MBombay Cigars sampler is Jay Rabinowitz! Please send your address so I can pack this up and send it out to you. Thanks again to Mel and Ron at Bombay Tobak for sponsoring yesterday’s contest! Someone asked in yesterday’s comments how you tell each line apart as they all have the same bands. I’ve asked this question myself which led to the line being marked on the back of the cello in marker, which is the case with these samples (as shown in the bottom picture). I’m sure it’s something Mel and his team are looking at, bands are expensive, but they do serve the purpose of identification. The bands and presentation are quite beautiful!

You know what to do now, leave a comment here, check back tomorrow to see if you won!