Your Christmas List – 2009

With December starting in just a few hours, we thought it was about time we rolled out this years annual 12 Days of Christmas. Day 1 of our contest is setup the same way as it was last year. We would like our loyal readers to take a moment and put together a cigar related Christmas list, which can be passed on to friend and family.

After you make your Christmas list in the comments section below, you may make …

Ask The Readers: How Big of a Cigar Geek are You?

If you’ve been around awhile you will know that Walt and I met playing an online game called Battlefield 1942. I’m still no stranger to online games. While not as hardcore as I use to be I still find myself putting on my tights to defend Paragon City in City of Heroes or doing my part to protect Azeroth in World of Warcraft.

In City of Heroes I’m known as The Butane Flame and my warrior in World of Warcraft …

Ask The Readers: How do you select a special occasion cigar?

Over the past few days I have been thinking about posting some sort of article on selecting a cigar for a special occasion. After thinking about how to approach that article from a variety of angles, I just couldn’t settle on one that I was completely happy with.

Giving advice on how to select a cigar for a special occasion is much harder than I originally anticipated. When I began thinking through a variety of scenarios, which included time of …

J. Fuego 777 Corojo (Short Ashes)

Last week I was able to bang out three Short Ashes reviews. The intention was to create a little bit of a pool of content to draw from as the holidays starting popping up and we were pressed for time. Little did I know, right after I recorded the videos that I was going to come down with a cold.

As I near the tail end of this cold, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel …

Davidoff Colorado Claro (Special T)

I know I know, it seems odd The Great Torpedo/Don “Cruz”ado would be reviewing a cigar made by Davidoff. Its historically not my speed and a brand that I’ve shied away from. Partly because of the hefty price tag but more out of my own ignorance of assuming that the cigar wasn’t meant for me and my non-baller lifestyle. Same could be said for the Padron Anniversary lines too.

That was how I felt up until about six months ago. …

Zino Embassy Selection Limited Edition Perfecto

I guess I haven’t been paying attention lately, because when the Zino Embassy Selection touched down at a local cigar shop I was surprised. Standing in front of an open burgundy box of 10 large perfectos, my thought process went a little like this: “A new Zino? Why I didn’t hear about… Whoah, wait. That price tag has to be a misprint.” The price tag wasn’t a misprint, and I decided to pick up a few, one to smoke immediately, …

El Baton by JC Newman Cigars (Guest Review)

For this weeks guest review spot, we have our good friends Tom and Ed. Like usual, the guys join us from Ed’s shop, St Pete Pipe and Cigar, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The feature cigar is the El Baton by JC Newman Cigars.

The guys explain that the vitola is described as a Double Torpedo (6.75 x 54) and ranges from around $6.50 to $7.50 depending on your local state taxes. The makeup is 100% Nicaraguan Tobacco, which …

Ah Memories…

The other night on Twitter one of our long time fans of Stogie Review, vic121, posed the following question to Walt, Brian and myself:

what do you guys think is the secret to your success?

It was a bit late in the night to take vic121‘s question seriously but it did spark a conversation reminiscing back to the days of my first video review, a time when I religiously sported a white t-shirt in every review, the bed …

Room 101 Cigars Contest: We Have A Winner

During the month of November, Stogie Review offered our readers / viewers a chance to win a box of Room 101 Cigars. In order to enter yourself into the random drawing, we asked everyone to submit their “Matt Booth Pose”.

Throughout the contest we received some awesome entries. Some looked really cool and one or two others had me laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. In the end we had a total of nineteen entries. Brian, …

Oliva Serie O Maduro (Twitter Review)

Believe it or not, here it is, time for another Stogie Review Tweet-View, and I’m sick once again. Unlike last month when I was laid up in bed, this time I seem to have come down with allergies, or the like, and found myself completely congested. Not wanting to bail out of a second Twitter Review in such a close time-frame, I gritted it out and smoked along with the guys.

Due to my congestion, I was unable to taste …