Expected downtime tonight.

If you have been checking out the site regularly today (10/24/08), you may have noticed some downtime throughout the day. We have contacted our host and they have determined that we need to be migrated to a new machine. As a result, we will be down for 1-2 hours starting at Midnight EST.

Once the migration takes place, we will be back to our normal routine. We have been assured that this will speed up the site and reduce the …

Contest Update

Due to some re-scheduling of Your Questions, My Answers (YQMA) Episode 39, and a Blind Tasting that I had scheduled yesterday, YQMA is running a little late. Due the taping of my tasting and me feeling a little under the weather, I didn’t have the opportunity to sit down and edit the show from start to finish. As a result, you can expect to see the video posted sometime this evening.

In the meantime, this would be great time to …

September Contest Winner

Well folks, it took us longer than we would have expected to select a winner. Brian, Jerry, and I selected our favorites and wouldn’t you know, we had a list of 8 entries that needed to be slimmed down.

We all went back and forth on what context the tagline would be used in. We came down to two entries that we felt comfortable using and it was very difficult to select a winner. When it was all said and …

Contest: Win a Colibri Reload courtesy of Lighters Direct

One contest ends and another begins. For the month of October we have a contest that is a little different than usual, but before we talk about that, lets check out the prize.

The prize for the month of October is a Colibri Reload lighter.
image courtesy of Lighters Direct

If you aren’t familiar with these, Colibri has recently released a lighter which contains a disposable fuel tank. While speaking with my local Colobri Representative, I’m told the main reason …

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.

A winner …

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 …

Contest for the month of September 2008

Before I get to telling you about the contest and how to enter, I would like to tell you a little about the person that provided this months contest prize. His name is Tom from Duque Cigar Company in Florida. You may recognize the name as one of or newer sponsors.

The thing that stood out about Tom and his company was his email to me about sponsorship. Unlike some of our other sponsors, who have all been great, Tom …

August Contest Winners Selected

The month of August has come to a close and three winners have been selected at random to win some free smokes. Two of the three winners are confirmed (received email back from them). The cigars should be at the post office for shipping by the end of the week.

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who filled out the survey, your responses are greatly appreciated. There were several excellent comments and suggestions made and we will …

What goes on during a blind tasting?

Have you ever picked up a copy of a popular cigar magazine and wondered what it would be like to be a fly on the wall at their blind tasting? On many occasions I have read the blind reviews and wondered if they went about the review in the same way that I did.

Do these guys talk to themselves and second guess the flavors they are picking out of the smoke like I do? Does their instinct to reach …

Contest: Month of August 2008

For the month of August we will be running a pretty simple contest
The grand prize is a small desktop humidor filled with cigars.
Courtesy of Matt from our very own Fan Forums

This month we have made the entering process a little more involved than last months contest. This time around we are asking that you fill out a quick survey to help us make Stogie Review a better place for everyone. The survey should only take a …