Comments on: Stogie Review Needs Your Help

By: JB

JB — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:11:35 +0000

Walt, Once in a while you should consider pulling up some piece of cigar related news and give your opinion on the matter. This could be done weekly, every other week, or just whenever something of particular interest pops up.

By: Ray D. (aka debo0775)

Ray D. (aka debo0775) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:22 +0000

Another shameless plug here…lol

http://www.stogiereview.com/fanforum/index.php?topic=3040.0

There’s the most recent group blind tasting on the forums if you want to check that out (and mayI say I did a damn fine job until I got cocky after a correct pick?…lol)

By: Ray D. (aka debo0775)

Ray D. (aka debo0775) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:07:57 +0000

I’d rather have a thorough shop review than a quickie cigar review, yeah. Few other places have such solid shop reviews, and this place has some of the best long cigar reviews on the net IMO. I’d prefer it if they put up some other content that was less labor intensive and take that saved time and put it toward a video review (or rockin’ written and ToB from Brian).

Nothing on this site will cater to everyone. Do more people watch video reviews? Sure, but putting together some other review might take 1-2 hours tops while a video review probably takes 5ish hours start to finish to put together and such. The guys don’t get paid, and given the recent addition to Jerry’s family, they’re a little bit shorter on time.

As an aside, I would suggest for anyone that wants to see more cigar related content to join the forums (shameless plug…lol).

By: HabanoHam

HabanoHam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:25:10 +0000

I think a segment on humidor care wold be a good topic, covering things such as optimum humidity for each season and an explanation the process of how humidor aging effects the flavor/benefits cigars. Another would be to tell which wrappers smoke better at lower and higher humidities.

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:30:20 +0000

I didn’t read all the comments, so I’m sorry if this got suggested already.

I think there should be blind tastings to show what we’re paying for as consumers spending our hard-earned money. I suggest something like blind smoking a Tatuaje and a Pepin CC to see if there’s any difference or smoking a Padilla with no band and still thinking it’s any good.

One person picks the cigars and takes the bands off and gives them to the taster who makes his notes having no idea what brand he’s smoking. I think it’d be hillarious to see how some of the big names get judged when the taster doesn’t know what brand he’s got in his mouth.

By: stogielover

stogielover — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:50:25 +0000

I understand Ray, I really do, but you mean to tell me that if on one hand you had a review of a cigar and on the other a cigar shop review, you wouldn’t want to see the cigar review?

Even if the review is short, gives a little info about the cigar, whether or not they liked it and would recommend us giving it a try. No video neccessary.

I do think it is a cool idea, I’m just being honest in saying that it doesn’t peak my interest and i’ve read only maybe 2 or 3 of them from top to bottom.

By: jdoo

jdoo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:28:48 +0000

How about a brief history on the rarest and most collectible cigars, and high dollar cigar auctions at places like Christie’s or Sotheby’s?