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News: La Gloria Cubana Presents Criollo de Oro

Some Saturday morning news from La Gloria Cubana for you here.  I’m curious about this one, as a long time LGC fan, but not so much a fan of Criollo. It’ll be interesting to me to see what the hybrid between the Criollo and Pelo de Oro is like. I think I’ve been to the farm in Mao that they mention below, and I’ve seen Pelo de Oro in fields in Nicaragua, so I feel somewhat of a connection to this so I definitely want to try it. Read on: 

La Gloria Cubana presents “Criollo de Oro,” a new, limited edition collection named after the hybrid varietal developed by crossing two Cuban seed tobaccos: the versatile Criollo ’98 with the rare Cuban seed Pelo de Oro.… Continue reading »

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Craig Vanderslice
September 18, 2021
News
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A Zeus Churchill Cigar and CigarCraig.com’s 12th Anniversary

It was on this day in 2009 that CigarCraig.com was born, a birthday present from my wife. As I’ve told the story before, I had no idea what I would do with the URL, really didn’t much know what a blog or blogger was, so I had to figure something out. I had spent time on USENET, and the thought of trying to build yet another informational site seemed daunting and redundant. So there was this blog thing. I never was much of a writer, so it started pretty abysmally, but I figured I’d just start writing about some cigars I smoked and places I went and stuff I did, just like I used to do on USENET.… Continue reading »

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Craig Vanderslice
August 29, 2021
Editorial, Review
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A La Gloria Cubana Media Tiempo, a Karl Malone Cigar and a Diesel Crucible

Last Sunday we were dropping off our grandkids at their house, and stopped in to the nearby Wooden Indian Tobacco Shop for a quick little shopping trip. Up until very recently, the Wooden Indian was only doing curbside service, so it had been nearly eighteen months since I’d been in the store. Dan and Deanna were working the store, and left us to browse the large walk-in humidor.  I managed to find a few cigars I hadn’t smoked yet and smoked a few of them this week.… Continue reading »

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Craig Vanderslice
June 13, 2021
Review
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La Gloria Cubana Colección Reserva Presidente Prime Living Ariticle

You’ll have to excuse me, my day started with a migraine, then I just finished typing my post up and then it vanished so I have to start over, so I’m a little irritated. So I’ll re-write that post later and post an article that was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Prime Living magazine. This near the end of my four year run as the cigar feature writer for that magazine. That was a fun gig, and I enjoyed having a cigar article published in a mainstream publication. Most of my articles are still on their site, Prime-living.com, but take some digging to find.… Continue reading »

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Craig Vanderslice
May 9, 2021
Review
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A Yargüera H. Upmann Toro and Some Other Cigars

I haven’t gotten to anything new in the second half of the week, I went with some standards. I smoked a Mi Querida Ancho Larga, and whenever I smoke one of these I can’t be happier. This cigar is just about as good as it gets. I have
a Unicorn in my humidor that I’m kind of saving for when I finally land that next job, but when I smoke a Mi Querida it’s hard for me to imagine how the Unicorn could be that much better! It hits my palate just right. I had the Ancho Larga (might have been my last one), and an Umbagog in my hand and went for the Mi Querida, but the Umbagogs are awesome too. I also went with another favorite, the Don Juan Calavera, this time the Connecticut. This is among my favorite Connecticuts because it has a very rich flavor and doesn’t have any grassy flavors that one finds in some shade wrapped cigars.… Continue reading »

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Craig Vanderslice
April 19, 2020
Review
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