I hope everyone had a nice holiday, it was another quiet one around here. We prepared a nice feast and delivered some food to Mom and our daughter’s family, remaining socially distant. I tend to smoke some good
stuff around the holidays, and more times than not, my version of “good stuff” is classics. In this case I smoked an Ashton VSG Belicoso #1 on Christmas Eve. I’ve been nursing a box of these for a few years and they are extremely delicious. Every time I smoke one I am reminded of how much I like them and could smoke them
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Holiday Weekend Cigars and the Big Contest Winner!
CigarCraig’s 2020 Holiday Giveaway!
OK, I know it’s not the CigarCraig’s 12 Days of Giveaways, it’s been 5 years since that whole thing ended. We had a good run, but when the FDA scared all the cigar companies off of giving cigars away, it complicated things. I knew that trying to do twelve days of swag giveaways wouldn’t fly, and adding cigars out of my own humidor would break me (shipping already puts a hurting on me!). So it went the way of the Dodo. Fortunately, I find myself with some goodies accumulated over the year, so I put together one great present to close out the year!… Continue reading
La Aurora ADN Dominicano Churchill Cigar
I have been interested in smoking the La Aurora ADN Dominicano since it came out, and I saw them in the local shop last week and picked one up. It also should be common knowledge that I have a long standing affinity for the La Aurora brand. This goes back to the first box of cigars I bought back in 1996, and I bought it largely because my daughter’s name is Aurora, and she might still have the box, and I might still have one of those Bristol Especiales in the humidor someplace. It’s pretty old.… Continue reading
Dissident Bloc and Black Label Trading Co. Morphine Cigars
Oddly, or maybe not, my local shop didn’t have anything new to speak of. So I looked for cigars I hadn’t smoked yet. It’s getting harder to find those. They had some Black Label Trading Company selections, and since I had just posted about the new Morphine release, I grabbed a Morphine Lancero, along with a Dissident Bloc 7 x 43. I got home and decided to take the dogs for a walk with the Dissident.… Continue reading
News: Black Label Trading Co. Announces Seventh Release of Morphine and a Short Unrelated Editorial
I just finished taking part in another roundtable discussion for an upcoming episode of the Kaplowitz Media Podcast. I’ve been enjoying listening to Kap’s podcasts for a while, and am humbled and honored to have been included in the last two episodes. I actually feel rather comfortable among this group, I feel like I can speak candidly, although I may have spoken a bit too candidly on this episode. Kap’s sense of humor aligns with my own and I appreciate his show, especially his segment with Dion Giolito. It’s very entertaining, just, avoid the segments I appear in, I can’t stand the sound of my own voice, which is largely why I abandoned my own podcast. Now, since I haven’t smoked anything new or notable over the last few days, here’s some news from the folks at Black Label Trading Company.
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