It’s just after 8am on Sunday, Father’s Day, and I’ve just lit up a My Father El Centurion H 2K CT corona to smoke while I write this. I love summer! I can sit on the porch on a beautiful Sunday morning and enjoy a cigar with coffee. This cigar is several years old (the price tag of $7.50 was still on it) and smoking well. Looking forward to a lovely day. Yesterday Lina and John Remer of New Tobacco Village in Whitehall, PA launched a cigar called the Devil in Disguise, a toro made by Espinosa Cigars. I believe this to be exclusive to New Tobacco Village and I’m quite sure they can be ordered through their website. I stopped in this store once and it was a really nice shop. It had a very welcoming feel, and loads of great cigars. I regret not stopping in yesterday when they launched the new cigar. The Devil in Disguise is a toro with a Habano Rosado wrapper and Nicaraguan binder and fillers. I smoked one Thursday and found it to be really quite good, it started with a pretty good dose of a citrus tang, which lessened through the smoke, but remained there. It was quite enjoyable. Burn and draw were perfect and I dug it. John and Lina are nice people, I remember the first time I met John, he was doing one of his Facebook lives from an event and was standing right next to him and commented on the post, which he read, then someone told him I was right there. It was a little funny.
Speaking of Lina, she is the proprietor of New Tobacco Village, and, I assume, who the La Lina cigar was named for. John and Lina got married at a Vegas wedding chapel at the last PCA trade show, which was attended by a star studded cast of characters. I was invited, but wasn’t in town at the time. I’ve actually had this La Lina toro in my humidor for a few years. I ran into John and Lina at a TPE show and was given this cigar. The La Lina Limited Edition is also a toro, and appears to also be available on their website. This cigar has an Ecuador Habano Oscuro wrapper, Indonesian binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. I found it to have a leathery flavor, with some sweetness in the background. It was a very good cigar, and well priced for an LE. There are links above to purchase both of these cigars, not a paid ad, but the cigars were provided to me gratis. A couple cigars get you a lot here at CigarCraig.com!
I ordered some of the latest Firecrackers from 2 Guys Cigars and added a couple other cigars I wanted to try but don’t see locally often. As long as I’m paying for shipping, right? One of the cigars was the new Micallef Blue in a toro size. I really liked the Micallef Black, and who can argue with the prices of these? They are both good $8 cigars. The Blue has a Mexican San Andrés Sumatra wrapper, Ecuadorian habano binder and filler tobaccos from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. I smoked this soon after receiving it, but I gave it the Humidimeter check and it was ready to go. 2 Guys always does a great job fulfilling orders quickly with great communication. The predominant flavor on the Blue, to me, at least, was leather. I didn’t get any sweetness at all. I didn’t not enjoy it, I just prefer the Black in this case. It’s great that they are producing affordable cigars, especially good affordable cigars, especially when the came on the market not too many years ago with very expensive cigars. I suppose the next cigar in this line will be a claro of some variety. White would be the clichè choice, with Red for a rosado. Whatever they go with, I’m sure they will be decent cigars.
At some point today I’ll smoke my traditional Father’s Day cigar, the Esperanza Para Los Niños, which is a 25 year old cigar at this point. Thank you to my old friend Roger F. for allowing me to continue this tradition! You can search this site for the whole story, but this cigar was made by Christian Eiroa when her still owned Camacho and the blend was chosen by a group of guys from the alt.smokers.cigars usenet group. It was sold to benefit children orphaned by hurricane Mitch which devastated Honduras in October of 1998. That’s all for today, until the next time,
CigarCraig
