Ed Nazare and Tom Adcock join us once again for another video review. This time around Tom and Ed smoke the Camacho 10th Anniversary.
MP3 Version: Available Here
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If you’re anything like me, you feel a little lost when it comes to Gurkha cigars. They fill page after page of cigar catalogs, both online and print. And yet, their own website seems to list a completely different set than you see in your local shop. In short, there’s just no telling how different lines of them there are out there. And as soon as you start counting, a few more hit the market. It seems that Gurkha cigars a little like guppies. Leave ‘em alone for any period of time, and before you know it, your humidor is overflowing with pretty, shiny cigars.
In an attempt clear up things a bit, a couple of the cigar bloggers on twitter were throwing around the idea of a “Gurkha week” of cigar reviews. The plan was do it this week, but as all half-baked plans go, it ran into a hitch or two. Jerry was under the weather with a case of torpedo-idis and Walt had prior cigar review commitments. So the week quickly shrunk to a day. And that day is today. I guess that makes this “Gurkha day” at least here on the Stogie Review.
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In early March of this year I made plans to head out to a local cigar shop and have a cigar with a friend. After arriving at the shop and getting about half way into a cigar, we began to talk about the new line of Nub Cigars by Sam Leccia.
This friend of mine, Dave, is a close friend of Sam’s and coincidentally, happened to get a phone call from Sam as we were talking about him. I walked out of the room and looked around the shop while they talked. After a few minutes Dave returned and told me that Sam was looking for someone to make him a rolling table for the upcoming launch events and asked if I knew anyone who could quickly do the job.
After giving it some thought I told him that the only person I knew of was probably busy with the Philadelphia Furniture show around this time of year.
I told Dave that I might be able to help Sam out depending on what he was looking for. We walked into the Humidor to take a look at what the house roller was working from to get an idea of what the final product was to look like.
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This week I’d like to take a short poll of our Stogie Review readers on which cigar misconceptions you would do away with. If it were possible for you to rid the world of a single cigar related misconception, which would one would it be?
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Due to numerous technical difficulties with the footage, this episode may be difficult to follow. We apologize for poor quality.
Welcome back for another Episode of Your Questions, My Answers Episode 33. Just like last time, I’ve broken the show down into three segments all with separate video for your watching convince.
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This Saturday I decided it was time to revisit a cigar I had had some mixed results with at the end of last year. The day after giving The Gran Habano VL Gran Churchill a less than stellar review, I came down with a bit of a cold. And that bothered me. Was the cigar really mediocre, or was my palate skewed because I was coming down with a cold? I have enjoyed other Gran Habano cigars in the past, and this was supposed to be a special “Very Limited” edition.
What makes this all more interesting is that I had no idea Walt Jerry had reviewed the cigar over a year earlier! So not only am I revisiting one of my old reviews, I’m comparing notes with Walt Jerry. Enjoy.
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Brand: Pacific Cigar Co.
Vitola: Robusto
Length: 4.50
Ring Gauge: 52
Wrapper: Ecuador
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican
Origin: Dominican Republic
Price: $7.75 each
Brand:
The Pacific Cigar Company was established in 1990 and is based out of Lemont, Illinois. In addition to having a presence here in the United States, the Pacific Cigar Company also has a facility in the Philippines and Dominican Republic.
The company goal is to challenge and change the means and methods of making and packaging cigars for the purpose of creating a cigar like no other.
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This weeks guest review comes courtesy of emjaysmash via our very own Fan Forums.
Size: Double Corona (7.75 x 50)
Wrapper: Sumatra
Binder: Unknown
Filler: Nicaraguan and Dominican.
Age: At least 2 months, 2 days.
Smoking time: 1 hour, 10 minutes.This cigar has been scaring me for some time now. After it was “gifted” to me by my friend’s father, it has stared menacingly out of my glass-top humidor, just waiting for me to put my guard down. After 2 months of agonizing fear, I finally gathered the courage to do something about it. But what could I do? How could I vanquish such a beast? Well, I figured if the mob of townspeople went after Frankenstein’s monster with torches, so could I.
Pre-light
This cigar has a mottled wrapper, ranging from medium to dark brown. Visible pectin glue smears can be plainly seen. 2 large veins run the length of the cigar. The smell of the wrapper is that of alcohol and feet. (Yes, feet. Not a Sweaty Feet smell, just a general feet smell. )
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I had originally planned to review another unusual looking cigar. I don’t know why, but I seem to be drawn to the odd looking smokes. As you probably remember, I reviewed the Felipe Gregorio Icon Einstein last week. And then there’s the Inmenso by Perdomo I reviewed back on Halloween. Who can forget my smoking adventures with multiple wrappers, the Gurkha Grand Master Dos Capas and the Indian Tabac Split Decision Quad Toro. (Actually, come to think of it, you’d be better off to forget those last two.) But then I remembered the AVO Tesoro Limited Edition 2008 I picked up a few weeks back. Jeez, a new cigar, and I was just sitting on it? That’s just nuts.
I guess that’s par for the course when it comes to the AVO Tesoro Limited Edition 2008. It was released back in late March to a great deal of fanfare in New York, but it seemed to be quickly eclipsed by all the other new cigars coming out. I remembered reading about them, and then being surprised to find them so quickly in one of my local shops. (Which, I might add, still doesn’t have Nubs or my much loved Arganese cigars.) Or maybe it’s just me. When I put up the decision to a scientific Twitter poll, the calls for the new AVO were overwhelming.
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In this edition of the Twitter Poll I asked which new cigar (from the past 6 months) is here to stay. Check out the responses and tell us what you think.
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