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August 16, 2026 · 9:28 am

Blackbird Glitch, Artista Colorado and Ferio Tego Metropolitan Cigars

I found a few more cigars in the pack from Smoke-Onos that I hadn’t smoked before and gave them a go this week. First up was the Blackbird Cigars Glitch Habano. This was a 5″ x 50 robusto with a Habano wrapper, Mexican binder and American and Dominican fillers, not that their website was any help with that info! Originally, the Glitch cigars came about because of a mix up at the factory. The fact that there are Glitch line extensions makes me wonder about that, but I guess they just made tweeks on the original “mistake”. These are very attractively priced, around $7 in PA, and I was quite pleasantly surprised with the experience. The flavors were interesting, what I would call exotic spices, and the burn and draw were perfect. This was a really good cigar.

I ended up with a few cigars from Artista, this one was the Colorado. The barcode label on this was wrong, it was for a Cimarron Maduro, but the band clearly said Colorado. I want to try the Cimarron one of these days. I spent a couple really nice weeks backpacking near Cimarron, New Mexico back in 1981, good memories. Not that I haven’t a good time in Colorado, but in this case it refers to a color, not the state. This 5″ x 54 robusto has a very interesting blend. It has an Ecuadorian Corojo wrapper, Ecuadorian Sumatra binder and Central American, African & Caribbean Proprietary Tobaccos in the filler. It’s a good looking cigar, like it’s name implies, it’s a ruddy, reddish brown, very appealing. This was another cigar with interesting flavors. I think there was a hint cayenne, along with some chocolate. I found it quite entertaining. This is another sub-$8 cigar that’s definitely worth a try. Now to hunt down a Cimarron.

Last up is the Ferio Tego Metropolitan Connecticut, in a 6½” x 52 torpedo vitola. This is a classic Dominican shade cigar, it has a Connecticut wrapper with Dominican binder and fillers. I believe it’s made by the Quesada family. The Metropolitan brand was acquired from Altria when the shut down the Nat Sherman cigar operations, so it’s possible that you could run across Metropolitan by Nat Sherman somewhere, but its been a few years, so that’s becoming less and less likely. I’ve smoked some Metropolitan cigars in the past, but not a great many, this is the first Connecticut I’ve had. I just checked, and I have a Connecticut toro in the humidor with a Nat Sherman band (along with a VIP selection that I picked up at the townhouse many years ago). Anyway, I enjoyed the cigar, it had the bready, woody, creamy flavors one would expect. I want to say these can be obtained for around $10, so this whole blog post has featured what are now considered value cigars.

I wanted to fly someplace interesting this weekend to smoke some cigars, but Frontier wasn’t cooperating. I used to be able to find morning flights, with evening return flights, but now it’s not so easy. Suggestions are welcome. That’s all for today, until the next time,

CigarCraig

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Liga Privada H99, Villiger San D’Oro and Nica Rustica Adobe Cigars

Monday was Memorial Day and that called for some special smokes. I pulled out the Liga Privada H99 that Joe Gro of Drew Estate gave me back in January at the TPE show. I’m not sure why I had been waiting to smoke this, but I figured a nice afternoon off was a great time to light it up. According to the Drew Estate Website: “Maintaining the core tenants of the Liga firebrand, the H99 features a Corojo capa from the heart of the Connecticut River Valley, where we grow the mighty leaf that graces Liga Privada with a San Andres Otapan Negro Último Corte capote over a core blend of well-aged Nicaraguan and Honduran tripa leaf.” I like how this is written, it’s an obvious nod to the original creator of the Liga Privada line, who else uses terms like “capa”, “capote”, and “tripa” instead of wrapper, binder and filler? 😀. This cigar burned very nicely, and was less like a Liga Privada cigar than I expected. I suppose it was more on the T52 end, obviously, it wasn’t as heavy as it’s broadleaf counterparts. I found it has a bit of spice, some salty, savoriness, and a hint of sweetness. It was very

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good, certainly worthy of the occasion. As I often do, I finished the holiday weekend off with an old favorite, this time it was a Fuente Hemingway Classic, as aptly named as a cigar could be.

I slacked off this week and didn’t write a midweek post. Pure laziness on my part, I have no excuse. I did smoke some cigars I really like though, a Stolen Throne Three Kingdoms, an Undercrown 10, and a new Perla Del Mar Maduro (more on that another time). Another one I revisited was the Villiger San’Doro toro. I found a three pack in the humidor and decided to smoke one and had forgotten how much I liked this cigar. This one is the Colorado, with a ruddy brown Ecuador wrapper, and Nicaraguan binder and filler. I’m not sure how old this three pack is, but I think it’s newer, which means these were made at Joya de Nicaragua. I probably have an old one around that was made at Placencia if I dive into the hum

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idor a little deeper. I really enjoyed the flavor of this cigar, it had a cane sugar sweetness that I like a lot, but it was intermittent, so it didn’t get boring. I know Villiger premium cigars don’t get a ton of traction, but they tend to be pretty good, as far as I’m concerned.

Yesterday I stopped in to the Wooden Indian where they were having a Drew Estate event featuring the new Nica Rustica Adobe, which they had in limited supply. I picked up five toros and smoked one there in the Liga Privada Lounge, while catching up with Dave, Dan and their excellent staff, as well as Ray from Drew Estate and Matty Rock, famous for being Matty Rock. I had my choice of the three vitolas the Adobe is available in, and stuck with the Toro, even though I haven’t had the robusto yet, but I didn’t really like the gordo I tried inthe Freestyle pack. I’ve smoked a ton of Nica Rusticas, I really like them. We even went to the Belly launch event in Kentucky back in 2015. This was the third Adobe I’ve smoked and it’s growing on me, I’m liking the smoothness and balance. It has a bit of a creaminess, the Habano wrapper instead of Broadleaf makes a big difference. When this was the Freestyle live mystery cigar I had no idea this was what it was going to be, although I know one person in particular nailed it. you can’t beat the price, both versions are going to have a place in my humidor I think.

That’s all for today! It’s been a beautiful weekend, and I need to get out and get some things done, maybe smoke some more cigars! Don’t forget to check out www.battleshipbeef.com and come out to the Battleship, Beef and Bourbon for the Ship Red Meat Lovers Club event. It should prove to be an orgiastic feast of the senses! Until the next time,

CigarCraig

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January 23, 2022 · 10:08 am

All Saints Saint Francis Colorado and Black Label Intergalactic Cigars

As I’m preparing to head out to the TPE this week, I was rummaging around for something new to smoke and coming up with nuthin. sure I have a couple things I haven’t smoked before that are about

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two years old, but they hardly qualify as new. I have a lot of cigars I love to smoke, a lot of cigars that I’m just kinda holding on to for my retirement stash, but I need to sprinkle in some new stuff to write about, right? So I stopped by Son’s again, because they are close by, have a great selection of the newest releases, and take great care of me. A few weeks ago Mickey Pegg mentioned to me someplace that he had to get me his new Saint Francis Colorado, so I pick

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ed up a few of those in the toro size to sample. Of course, the original Saint Francis placed high on my pseudo-list of 2021, if I were to put a number to it it would be a solid number two. That doesn’t sound right, but I’m going with it, it’s something we all aspire to. The All Saints Saint Francis Colorado toro is a 6½” x 52, which isn’t uncommon for Toros made at Rocky Patel’s factory. This cigar has an Ecuador Habano wrapper, obviously not fermented to an oscuro like the original, and the Nicaraguan fillers were tweaked, so it’s a slightly different blend that the former. I thought it had a sweet cream flavor, and it was very good. Maybe milder than the Oscuro, which packs a punch, and perhaps better suited for earlier in the day, which is when I smoked it. While my palate prefers the Oscuro, it was

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still an excellent cigar which I would go to over a great many other cigars. I suppose I’ll see Mickey at the TPE and tell him what I think!

A couple weeks back I posted the press release about the Black Works Studio Intergalactic, so I picked up a couple of those in the Corona Larga size. I love a Sumatra wrapper, and I enjoy the Black Works cigars generally. Seemed like a safe bet. To recap, this has a Dark Sumatra wrapper, Ecuador Habano binder and Nicaraguan fillers, and comes in the Corona Larga and Robusto sizes. I picked the Corona Larga on a whim, it looked good. This cigar had a great burn and draw. The flavors included some spice, sweetness and earth, all very nice. Another really good cigar from Black Works Studio. I don’t see BLTC on the exhibitor list for the TPE, they were there in 2020. I guess I won’t visit them there!