Episode 3 – Your Questions, My Answers

Welcome to Episode 3 of Your Questions, My Answers. This time around Walt & I tackle questions about how to season your humidor, vintage cigars along with The Doc, super hero names, reflecting on the past year of reviews, websites we visit, Episode 100 of the Dog Watch Social Club Cigar Radio, Lew Rothman vs. Rocky Patel, video on ipods and have a contest announcement of our own.

Walt & I had way too much fun this episode …

Partagas Black

Its hard to believe that its taken me this long to review a cigar that has been a big part of my cigar smoking life. The Partagas Black is one of my all time favorites. A few winters ago I smoked nothing but these for over 3 months, every day, all day. Its sad to see that this was the last one in my humidor. What’s worst is, I forgot to take a picture of it before I started smoking …

Cabaiguan Belicoso Fino

We’re back this week with another Pete Johnson creation, the Cabaiguan Belicoso Fino (5.5×52), produced in concert with Pepin Garcia and his son Jaime. Covered in a gorgeous Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut shade wrapper, this cigar was very attractive with but a few small veins running lengthwise. It had just the proper amount of give when squeezed and a nice simple band.

The cap cut cleanly, though with a bit of difficulty. Using my single-blade Havana Cutter, the blade stopped dead about …

CAO MX2

Several months ago when CAO began advertising their X2 lines I became very curious and started to search them out at my local cigar shops. Unfortunately I did not have any luck finding one of the two sticks to try. After a few weeks of looking, CAO ran a quiz on their website which asked questions about their new CX2 cigar. I was fortunate enough to guess all the answer correctly and win a free CX2 Cigar.

I really enjoyed …

Blast from the past

A good friend of mine was working on an old barn recently. While taking down some old plaster he wasn’t surprised to see wadded up newspaper stuffed into the walls as insulation. However, what did surprise him was the clipping he saw as he pulled out the first wad of newspaper. It was a cigar advertisement in the Daily Reporter (old Phoenixville, PA Newspaper) dated 1929.

The Old Tiler Cigar
For the man who knows a good smoke!
Hand made, …

La Aroma De Cuba

Thanks again to Carlos in NJ as this is another one of the many cigars he sent me a few weeks ago.

When you watch the video you will see I was a bit torn by this cigar. I enjoyed the cigar and I’d recommend it. The problem is, I’m not sure if I’d remember to recommend it. Lots of good earthy and woodsy flavors that I enjoyed. Construction, burn rate and draw were are all superb. I think I …