Last week we talked about ANY excuse to smoke a cigar, but there’s one HUMUNGOUS excuse I’ll always have, and that’s NFL Playoff football. Cigars and football… damn guys, it’s like mac n’ cheese… Starsky n’ Hutch… mashed taters n’ gravy… beer nuts and… well, um… beer. Now being a lifelong New York Giants fan, [...]
It is that time of year when the cigar factories begin reopening. You see each year they all close for the Christmas holiday. So no cigars are made between the middle of December and about now. One factory that is new, is the MATASA factory in the Dominican Republic. It’s grand [...]
Back for another random cigar review. I spotted this cigar at a local shop, picked some up, and here we are. This cigar is said to have been “Designed to appeal to those tenured smokers demanding a full flavored smoke.” This is simply quoting General Cigar’s website. I paired this cigar with water. Let’s see [...]
If you’re anything like me (whoa that’s a scary friggin thought, you’ll have to agree) then you will basically make any excuse whatsoever, anytime, any place, to smoke a good cigar. “Hey honey, I’ll be barbequing for 20 minutes,” and that’s all I need to break out a shorty and herf away while I’m grilling [...]
Today’s review is a random cigar that I’ve had in the humidor for a few months. Where I got it and why I picked it up eludes me. I’ll pick up almost any cigar at a shop that I know I haven’t reviewed, and I think this is a result of that. The only thing [...]
First off, let me start by introducing myself. My name is Brian Massey and I work at J•R Cigars as a graphic designer. Before this job, I developed my love of the leaf and cigar knowledge as a salesman in one of J•R’s retail locations. I’ve smoked most of the cigars we carry and I’d [...]
Just about everybody who blogs about cigars (me excluded) feels that at the end or beginning of the year they have to decide the cigar of the year. While it is nice and many arguments can arise from opinions as to what is the best…the ranking that seems to matter most is Cigar Aficionado’s. [...]
I picked up this cigar at Ed’s shop a couple of weeks ago. Gurkha has quite a large following of fans and bashers alike. I sit somewhere in the middle. They have quite a few blends that I like, and some that I’m not so fond of. I haven’t smoked a Gurkha in a long [...]
I would imagine you guys know me long enough, where it goes without saying that I freakin’ love cigars. (Gee Zman, what a revelation… did your inner Polack just kick in?) Now I’ve been smoking long enough where I know what I like. I know the blends, the wrappers, the flavor profiles and the strength. [...]
It’s a common occurrence… I walk a shop humidor and something will catch my eye. That is the story behind the cigar up for review today. It had a nice presentation, and more importantly, the cigar looked good. Let’s see how it smokes. Wrapper: Connecticut BroadLeaf Binder: Olor Dominican Republic Filler: Nicaraguan Viso, Olor, [...]
