EP Carrillo Maduro Encantos

One of the most popular cigars produced by La Gloria Cubana during Ernesto Perez-Carrillo’s tenure was the Serie R maduro. To this day, it’s hard to find a shop that doesn’t carry them, and they continue to sell well. Given his enduring success with those, it was really only a matter of time until he produced an EP Carillo Maduro.

That time is now. As I’m writing this, the new EP Carrillo Maduro is appearing on cigar shop shelves around …

Video Diary: Cigar Expo 2011 – (Mike)

Well I don’t know how well you will like this but this is my diary thing like Walt did except I forgot to break mine up into Day 1 and Day 2 posts. Yea, noobs.

Just some of my thoughts put on the flipcam before, during and after CigarExpo (Cigarnivale) 2011.

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Cigar Expo 2011: Day 1 Wrap-up

Every time Mike and I go to an event, we make a point to record our thoughts at the end of the day. The Famous Smoke Shop Cigar Expo (Cigarnival) was no different and we fired up the camcorder when we got back to our hotel room.

In this video, which runs a little over ten minutes, we talk about the first day of the two day event. I must warn you, this video is very dry. I thought long …

Video Diary: Cigar Expo 2011 – Day 1 (Walt)

One day, a few days prior to leaving for the Famous Cigar Expo 2011, I was messing around with my Flip Camera when I had an idea. Wouldn’t it be cool if I used the camera to create a video diary of significant cigar events, like Cigar Expo?

I could carry the video camera around in my pocket, then whip it out and record some random video footage. Would I capture something remarkably interesting or would it be tremendously …

Casa Fernandez Cuban Seed Corojo 2006

In an effort to be more consistent, Ed and I barely made our August spot on The Stogie Review. But we made it damnit! A big challenge we’ve had lately is figuring out what to review. It is often over thought, and to be bluntly honest, Ed is a picky bastard who won’t just review any cigar.

So this month we went old school and just walked the shop. Within three minutes we randomly picked the Casa Fernandez Cuban Seed …

Rene Castenada from Miami Cigar Co

Early on during our first day at the Famous Cigar Expo, I got to talking to Rene Castenada of Miami Cigar Company. Rene was kind enough to record some video with us and highlights some of the current releases as well as some of the new products that will be hitting stores across the country.

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History of Xikar with Kurt Van Keppel

As Cigar Expo grew closer, we reached out and began talking to Xikar about sponsoring our coverage this year. Kurt Van Keppel was happy to do it and we got to talking about featuring Xikar in our event coverage.

In the first video with Xikar, we have Kurt Van Keppel giving us a little history on the company. Kurt shares with us how the company started with just a single cutter design and grew to a premier company offering a …

Week in Smoke – TGT Edition

Another week in the books here at Stogie Review. In case you missed anything, here is a brief run down. I kicked the week off with a review of the La Casita Criolla by Tatuaje. Mike followed on Tuesday with a cigar I’ve never heard of in the 809 Connecticut. The Mouth of the South aka Brian Hewitt blessed us with his lyrical prowess with a review of the Winston Churchill Lancaster. Yesterday we had about 90 minutes …

Laying Down the Law

In the first two episodes of Your Questions, My Answers (Season 2) we’ve talk a lot about Cuban cigars. Particularly about what will happen when the Cuban Embargo is lifted and about Cuban trademarks. Our answers were typically uninformed and mainly for entertainment purposes. In cases where we aren’t educated or have enough background about a topic, in this case Cuban trademarks, we try and reach out to someone who is more knowledgable in the subject. Luckily for us, Frank …

Your Questions, My Answers (Episode 202)

Thanks for the great feedback on the Season 2 Premiere of Your Questions, My Answers. Received a lot of great questions after that episode so I hope you guys keep them coming. In fact, why not submit a question here and enter to win a five pack of the La Casita Criolla. For Episode 2 of YQMA, you get a special treat with all four members of the Stogie Review Crew weighing in on every question and topic.

In this …