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by CigarCraig | December 24, 2013 · 7:25 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 Day 13: Famous Smoke Shop

It’s been a long ride, but it’s not over yet! I was quite pleased to have had such a great response from my friends in the cigar business, and I feel bad that there were a couple people who showed interest in participating early that I didn’t follow up with because I had plenty already, and I just don’t have the time to go chasing after people! I think everyone will agree that this whole thing was pretty spectacular anyway. So, of course, we can’t just let it end at 12 days like rational human beings. And because tomorrow’s Christmas Day, I’m going to wait until Thursday to close the contest and announce a winner, so you have two whole days to enter! If you haven’t entered before, all new comments have to be approved, so please be patient if you don’t see your comment appear immediately, I’ll get to it. Let’s figure out who won yesterday’s Box of Toraño Family Cigar Co. Blends from the Vault D-042 Robustos and the awesome leather cigar case! Zakk Morrow was the name that came up, so please forward your address so I can send it off to the folks at Toraño! What’s in store for our bonus day? Read on:

Day 13!

Since we went to 13 days last year, you might have expected this otherwise unlikely turn of events. To put a little twist on things, and since it is Tuesday, that makes it Two-fer Tuesday again! Famous Smoke Shop is the sponsor of today’s extra special CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 finale. Under the tree are two boxes of Romeo y Julieta cigars which are Famous Smoke Shop Exclusives. First is one box of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet Toro cigar features a smooth blend of Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers, a Nicaraguan binder, and a creamy Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper.

You can’t have Juliet with Romeo, right? So the second present is one box of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague Toro. This has a Brazilian Maduro wrapper, a Dominican Olor binder and a blend of Nicaraguan, Dominican, and Brazilian long-fillers. Both come in boxes of 20 cigars and will ship directly from Famous Smoke Shop. Both sound super tasty!

What a prize, right? As if that wasn’t all, The folks at Famous Smoke Shop wanted everyone to win, so they have given me some discount codes for you to use to get discounts on the Romeo y Julieta Capulets and Montagues, OR, free Romeo y Julieta Capulet and Montague Five-packs with another purchase! These codes will be good through January. Use them! You know you’re buying cigars anyway! Special thanks to Travis Lord and all the folks at Famous Smoke Shop for pushing us to Day 13 with an especially nice Two-fer Tuesday present! See that? Everyone wins!

Discount codes:

CAPULET5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet with any $75+ purchase

MONTAGUE5 – Free 5-pack of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague with any $75+ purchase

CAPULET20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Capulet

MONTAGUE20 – $20 off any $100+ purchase of Romeo y Julieta House of Montague

Rules

Here’s how you enter: leave a comment. That’s it, plain and simple. Tweets don’t count, but feel free to spread the word, only comments on this page count as an entry. Each day there will be a different prize and the winner will be drawn from that day’s comments. The winner will be announced on the next day’s post. The contest is open to everyone, even if you’ve won one of my contests in the past six months, but once you’ve won, you are ineligible to win again in this series of contests. All prizes will be mailed as soon as I get a chance to go to the post office, or whenever the sponsor decides to ship, whichever is the case, so don’t make me chase down your address! If you won, please e-mail your contact information to craig@cigarcraig.com as soon as possible! That’s it, leave a comment to enter and good luck. Check back tomorrow to see if you won and enter tomorrow’s contest!

Until Thursday,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 23, 2013 · 6:53 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 Day 12: Toraño Family Cigars

I can’t believe it’s almost over! Here we are at the 12th day already. Almost 2 weeks worth of getting up early, choosing a winner and publishing a post before 7am EST. It’s been crazy. But it’s nearing the end and I appreciate all of the positive comments and for everyone taking the time to try to ~~weasel~~ win some great cigars from our generous sponsors! The winner of the excellent Nica Rustica El Brujito bundle, Undercrown cap and Acid cutter is smoke770. Please e-mail your address so I can ship this stuff to you! Once again, many thanks to the folks at Drew Estate! Let’s see what wonders Day 12 has in store for us:

Day 12

The folks at Toraño Family Cigar Co. have been great supporters for a long time, even before I started this site when we’d have events. Once again they come up big with a box of Blends from the Vault D-042 Robustos. This new cigar has an Ecuador Habano wrapper and the filler blend contains some tobacco from my home state of Pennsylvania! But that’s not all. They’ve also thrown in a beautiful leather cigar case to carry a few of these around in style. A box of twenty 5″ x 52 cigars and a cool cigar case. These will be great under someone’s tree this year!

Once again, thanks to Jack Toraño for putting this present together! This is a great family and they make great cigars. Good luck folks!

Rules

Here’s how you enter: leave a comment. That’s it, plain and simple. Tweets don’t count, but feel free to spread the word, only comments on this page count as an entry. Each day there will be a different prize and the winner will be drawn from that day’s comments. The winner will be announced on the next day’s post. The contest is open to everyone, even if you’ve won one of my contests in the past six months, but once you’ve won, you are ineligible to win again in this series of contests. All prizes will be mailed as soon as I get a chance to go to the post office, or whenever the sponsor decides to ship, whichever is the case, so don’t make me chase down your address! Please e-mail your contact information to craig@cigarcraig.com as soon as possible! That’s it, leave a comment to enter and good luck. Check back tomorrow to see if you won and enter tomorrow’s contest!

Until Tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 22, 2013 · 6:41 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 Day 11: Drew Estate

Day 10 is in the books and we’re getting close to the end of this odyssey! I’m going to have to sit down and figure out just how many cigars and goodies were given away this year. It’s a ton. I do know that I’ll be shipping out 25 Villiger cigars (a box of 20 La Capitana Toros and a 5 count sampler!) to Michel Vigeant, assuming he sends his shipping address to me! Once again, thanks to Anne and her crew at Villiger Cigars North America for providing this great present!

Day 11

Day 11 brings us some goodies from our friends at Drew Estate. We’ve got an Undercrown cap, an Acid cutter, and a bundle of the new Nica Rustica El Brujito! If you haven’t yet heard about the Nica Rustica, it’s one of my favorite new cigars this year. It’s an homage to the people of Esteli, Nicaragua, the city where the Drew Estate factory is located. This 6″ x 52 cigar is made with a pigtail cap and an untrimmed foot, and has a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, San Andrés Negro binder and Esteli and Jalapa Nicaraguan fillers. It’s a rich, tasty smoke that’s a little more rustic than the Undercrown, and priced very well. This is a bundle of 25 cigars. These are a hot commodity! I don’t see today ending without me smoking a Nica Rustica (not one of these, I have a couple of my own!)

Thanks to John Brook, and all of my friends at Drew Estate for sending these great cigars and goodies along. Leave a comment to enter and good luck!

Rules

Here’s how you enter: leave a comment. That’s it, plain and simple. Tweets don’t count, but feel free to spread the word, only comments on this page count as an entry. Each day there will be a different prize and the winner will be drawn from that day’s comments. The winner will be announced on the next day’s post. The contest is open to everyone, even if you’ve won one of my contests in the past six months, but once you’ve won, you are ineligible to win again in this series of contests. All prizes will be mailed as soon as I get a chance to go to the post office, or whenever the sponsor decides to ship, whichever is the case, so don’t make me chase down your address! Please e-mail your contact information to craig@cigarcraig.com as soon as possible! That’s it, leave a comment to enter and good luck. Check back tomorrow to see if you won and enter tomorrow’s contest!

Until Tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 21, 2013 · 6:47 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 Day 10: Villiger Cigars

Happy Saturday before Christmas! I’m now officially on vacation, so maybe it’s time to get to the shopping malls. They won’t be busy or anything will they? Yesterday’s present under the tree was a box of Casa Miranda Chapter Two Toros from Miami Cigar and Co. It’s my understanding that Barry Stein has a bad case of pneumonia and strep throat, a nasty combination. My best wishes for a speedy recovery, it’s no fun to be sick over the holidays, I’ve been there my friends. The oracle of Random.org has declared Brian Impson the winner of the Casa Mirandas. Please forward your details, but I would ask you and Jeff K to be a little patient with Barry, don’t get too upset if he doesn’t ship your boxes out promptly. Let’s see what Day 10 has in store for us:

It’s Day 10, and I’m pleased to present, for the third year in a row, a fine present from Villiger Cigars! The winner of this present will get a box of Villiger La Capitana Toros, and an “Unreleased Sampler” which is, as the name suggests, unreleased and only available at events. The sampler contains the Villiger Talanga Selecto Corona and Lancero, as well as the Colorado Torpedo, Diadama and what appears to be a pigtailed robusto.. I can personally vouch for the first two, and from the Villiger Colorado’s I’ve smoked, I can only imagine that these three sizes will be excellent. For what it’s worth, I also really liked the La Capitanas, they are excellent cigars, they are a Nicaraguan puro, made completely with Nicaraguan Habano tobaccos. These are very tasty cigars! Villiger may not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of premium cigars, but it should be. They’ve been making cigars for 125 years, and their handmade cigars are exceptional.

My thanks, once again to Anne and everyone at Villiger for today’s outstanding presents! You know what to do next!

Rules

Until Tomorrow,

CigarCraig

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by CigarCraig | December 20, 2013 · 6:47 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2013 Day 9: Miami Cigar and Co.

The 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways train keeps a’rollin today, it’s day 9 and there’s light at the end of the tunnel. You all know that these contests run just about 24 hours, so there’s just about no “too late”. I close the comments right before I write the next day’s post, around 6:30am. And Ted, as much as I’d love to see everyone win, just handling 12 Days is plenty. We’re getting well over 100 entries a day, four months of contests would leave me dead, divorced, jobless and insane, in that order. I’ll have to ask that you be happy with 12 days right now! On with the show! The random number generator spit out the number 107, which is ironic I guess. It would have been awkward if that number had come up a day earlier. I arrived at the name Mike McDonald as the 107th comment. Congrats and send me your address so I can get this shipped to you. Thank you Courtney and Bill at La Palina Cigars for providing this wonderful box. They promise a load of new projects next year, so stay tuned! The fun continues with another spectacular offering from our friends at Miami Cigar and Co.:

Day 9

Under the tree today is a box of Casa Miranda Chapter Two Toros from Miami Cigar and Co. These cigars are made at the My Father Factory in Esteli, Nicaragua under the watchful supervision of Don Pepin Garcia. The blend consists of filler tobaccos from Brazil, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua wrapped in dark Nicaraguan Corojo wrapper. These Toros are 5½ x 54 and come 15 to a box. These look really good, I’m looking forward to smoking one one of these days (these ship direct from Miami Cigar and Co., so I won’t be able to pilfer any!)

Thanks again to Barry Stein at Miami Cigar and Company once again for providing this fine gift, and for his support over the years. Good luck! Let the comments begin!