Last Call for September Contest

Just a friendly reminder that the Contest for the month of September ends tonight at 11:59 PM EST. If you are interested in winning a box of Rocky Patel Nording Robustos, check out the contest page and get your entries in.

Also remember that today is the last day you are eligible to use the sr2008 discount code for 5% off of your order at Duque Cigars.

Last Call, get those entries in before its too late.

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Stogie Review Update

The purpose of this update is to help keep everyone in the loop as to a recent change on Stogie Review. A few weeks back, Jerry went ahead and started checking out a new video service. The service is called Viddler and is a fairly young.

After playing with it for a bit he decided to switch over and use Viddler as a main service for his videos. I decided to give it a a try as well. and as …

Jameson Cigar Company Black Label (Blind Tasting)

On September 20th, I packed up my gear and made my way across town to Kensington Tobacconist for another Blind Cigar Tasting. Just like last time, I was armed with two different cigars, with bands removed, for the guys to evaluate. The write-up covers the second of those two cigars.

The purpose of these blind tasting are to get the average cigar smokers opinion of a cigar with absolutely no information on the smoke at hand. The guys didn’t …

Jameson Cigar Company Red Label (Blind Tasting)

On September 20th, I packed up my gear and made my way across town to Kensington Tobacconist for another Blind Cigar Tasting. Just like last time, I was armed with two different cigars, with bands removed, for the guys to evaluate.

The purpose of these blind tasting are to get the average cigar smokers opinion of a cigar with absolutely no information on the smoke at hand. The guys didn’t let me down and did a great job once …

A Look at the Xikar Warranty Service

From time to time, the things that you come to love become broken and need to be replaced. In my case, this item was the Xikar MTX Multi-Tool that I have kept close to my side since purchase.

One day I reached into my pocket and pulled out my scissors to open up the head of a cigar. I unfolded them as usual and prepped for my cut. I placed the head of the cigar into the scissor and closed …

Isla de Cuba Blend 376

Brand: Isla de Cuba Blend 376
Vitola: Robusto Extra
Ring Gauge: 50
Length: 5.50
Wrapper: Mexico
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaraguan and Honduran
Origin: Honduras
Price: Roughly $7.00

Brand:
The Isla de Cuba Brand is roughly three years old and is crafted in Honduras by Altadis. The brand president, Darryl Lieser, had a vision to create a cigar of his very own and choose the 1956 Montecristo No.3 to model it after. Years before being released to the public, this cigar …

AVO No. 2 (Guest Review)

Back for another Guest review, we have Nathan from An American Front Porch. This time around Nathan reviews the AVO No. 2 cigar.

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Macanudo 1968 Robusto

Some time ago it was brought to our attention that we didn’t have a single Macanudo review on the Stogie Review. I was sure that couldn’t be right, given the popularity of the cigar with the market at large. But as I reviewed our cigar review index, there was not a Macanudo to be found. The reason became clear as Walt, Jerry and I discussed who would blaze a path into Macanudo territory. It came down to whoever actually had …

Thoughts on Re-Packaging

In yesterdays article, I pointed out a Cigar Aficionado story that our good friend Carlos directed me towards in regards to a new Don Pepin Garcia project. At the end of my post, I asked what the readers of Stogie Review thought out the re-blending of a cigar that was on the market.

As a result some excellent discussion was stirred up. I would like to extend yesterdays question a bit and ask your thoughts on re-packaging. I got to …

Thoughts on Re-Blending

Just the other morning I was checking up on my twitter account and what people had to say while I slept the night away. I came across a tweet from our good friend Carlos from New Jersey. Carlos directed me to a Cigar Aficionado article that he thought I might find interesting.

Boy was he right, I read the article and would up printing it to take to my local shop. The reason for taking it to the shop was …