Episode 7 – Your Questions My Answers

In this episode Walt and I talk about:

Special occassion cigars
Different parts of the tobacco plant and how they are used
Rotating Your Cigars
Lew Rothman and the Cuban Embargo
Marketing Cigars that claim to have Pre Embargo tobacco
Cigar smoking etiquette
Must have Cigar Media (magazines, books, & DVD)…

User Review

While I’m editing the video for Episode 7 or Your Questions, My Answers I thought I’d share with you a review from one of our loyal visitors to the site. John Baelly was our winner of the box of Tatuaje Series P we gave away awhile back. After John had the chance to smoke a few he was nice enough to send us a review of the Tatuaje Series P:…

Cuesta-Rey Cabinet Selection #1

This cigar is just as long as the name for it. I’m smoking the Cuesta-Rey Cabinet Selection #1 (Maduro). This monster or giant of a cigar comes in at 8.5 inches long with a 52 ring gauge. It features a Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper with the binder and filler out of the Dominican.

Its been a busy week for me but I had just enough time and energy to squeeze in the Cuesta-Rey Cabinet Selection #1 (Maduro). When you watch …

Dona Flor

Up for review this week we have a Brazilian puro, the Dona Flor, in a robusto size (5×52). The Dona Flor is offered in mata fina and Connecticut shade, this example was the mata fina. I received this cigar at the same time as the Alonso Menendez reviewed back in November, so it’s been in the humidor around five months. It came as a gift from Paul Arneson, who it appears is no longer blogging since the last review was …

Gurkha X-Fuerte

This week for a review, we have the Gurkha X-Fuerte. I received this cigar a couple weeks ago from Tim, a Club Stogie Member, who decided to catch me off guard with a little care package.

This particular Gurkha is a monster weighing in at seven inches long with a fifty four ring gauge. While looking over the cigar I found it to be very attractive. The wrapper was a dark Costa Rican Maduro leaf that had a nice oily …

Alonso Menendez

Well Walt and I woke up earlier yesterday morning and decided to do our first ever joint video review. We’ve received a lot of requests for this over the past couple months so we gave it a shot. This is really unscripted and will probably take a little bit of work to smooth out the edges and keep from talking at the same time.…