Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) has announced that Rick Rodriguez, blender/ambassador of CAO, will be retiring from the company on April 29, 2022. Rodriguez joined General Cigar in January 2000 as a sales representative in Florida. In 2005, he was selected by the late Edgar Cullman, Sr., to participate in a rigorous cigar master training program […]
On Episode 222 Tony Bellatto returns to Prime Time us as our special guest. Tony’s recently started up a new venture Bellatto Premium Cigars to go along with his other ventures, La Barba Cigars and Lost & Found. We’ll catch up with Tony on all of these projects and more. We will also have our […]
Back in August 2020, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could not move forward with the enforcement of premarket rule requirements until he came up with a streamlined process for premium cigars. As a part of this process, […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are re-scoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
We are back another edition of Quesada Corner. On this installment, we smoke the Quesada 1974 Toro. This was a cigar that made its debut at the 2021 Premium Cigar Association Trade Show. This will be live-streamed off The Smoking Syndicate Facebook page. A condensed version will be packaged after the show as well on […]
General Cigar Company has announced the Cohiba Serie M, the first Cohiba to be produced in the United States will be making a return in April. This year, the Cohiba Serie M will be released in a limited edition Corona Gorda. The Cohiba Serie M is a collaboration between General Cigar Company and the El […]
In 2021, Altadis U.S.A. introduced a new installment to its Montecristo brand under its Epic line – the Montecristo Epic Vintage 12. The Epic series focuses on using vintage tobaccos. In the case of the Montecristo Epic Vintage 12, the blend incorporates vintage filler tobaccos from 2012 into the filler. This is a crop that […]
Black Works Studio’s Tiger Series, a series of cigars previously only available as a Fabrica Oveja Negra factory exclusive and European release, will now be available in the U.S. as an Oveja Negra Brands event-only cigar. The Tiger Series is a series of artisan multi-wrapper cigars. There are three cigars in the line: Neon Tiger […]
Room101 Cigar has delivered another exclusive offering for Luxury Cigar Club, the Room101 Snake Shake. The Room101 Snake Shake is positioned as a collaboration between Room101 brand owner Matt Booth and AJ Fernandez. The cigar consists of 100% Nicaraguan tobaccos that are from Fernandez’s farms. The blend is available in one size – a 6 […]
Tonight we continue Aging Experiment #4 as we check in one six plus months of aging on the Aladino Corojo Reserva Figurado. With the “Aging Experiment” Series, Bear and Coop smoke a cigar, smoke the same cigar six months later, and smoke the same cigar one year later. The idea is to see how […]
