In December of 2021, Drew Estate announced a new cigar to their lineup called the 20 Acre Farm. This cigar had a unique launch in which the cigar was sent out in kits, unbanded, to be smoked during a live introduction event put on by Drew Estate called the Freestyle Live! The name of the […]
Hey everyone, Here is our edited version of our live review Roundtable No. 5 of the Eiroa PCA Exclusive 11/18 from the Smoking Syndicate Facebook page now available on The Smoking Syndicate YouTube channel. Enjoy! Tonight the Cigar Coop Coalition gets together and smokes the EIROA PCA Exclusive 11/18. Much like the Tobacconists Association […]
Hey everyone, here is our edited edition of the Quesada Corner – Quesada 1974 Toro for our YouTube channel, The Smoking Syndicate. You can find the full version, here, on Facebook, at The Smoking Syndicate Facebook page that we did live. Enjoy. We are back another edition of Quesada Corner. On this installment, we smoke […]
RoMa Craft Tobac released a special limited edition version of the Cromagnon called the Black Irish. The Black Irish features the Connecticut broadleaf wrapper that is on the CroMagnon with a contrasting candela wrapper, creating a barber pole. The special cigar is the same size as the EMH and is only available once a year […]
Southern Draw has released a new vitola to their popular Jacob’s Ladder line called the Ascension. The Ascension is a belicoso fino that has been aging since 2016 and was made by AJ Fernandez Cigars. The Jacob’s Ladder line is named for the son of Robert and Sharon Holt, Ethan Jacob Holt, of Southern Draw […]
Black Works Studio has been putting out some stellar releases, so when they announced the Intergalactic, I was thrilled. This cigar is a bit different from the normal powerhouses that Black Works Studio releases. The Intergalactic is a complex cigar with more layers of flavors than their previous releases. “Intergalactic is a unique cigar for […]
Dapper Cigars is a cigar company I’ve been hearing about for years, but never got a chance to try one of their cigars. They are a brand that is mostly on the West Coast with almost no availability to the east. I was pretty excited to see that they would be at the 2021 PCA […]
Plasencia released the Cosecha 149, which means harvest in Spanish, at this year’s PCA trade show in 2021. The new cigar line marks the 149th harvest from the Plasencia’s farm in Honduras. The Cosecha 149 is made up of 100% Honduran tobacco from their 2014 crop. The tobaccos are from the Jamastran, Talanga and Olancho […]
Here is the shorter, edited version from our live Facebook show.
I’ve become more of a medium-bodied cigar smoker over the past 4 or 5 years, and a larger part of that has been Connecticut wrapper cigars. One of my all time favorites was the Balmoral Anejo XO Connecticut (RIP) which was, sadly, discontinued after General Cigar acquire their parent company, Royal Agio, a few years […]
