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 […]
In what has now become somewhat of a tradition on Special Edition, we will do a cigar show while the 2021 Election Results come in. There are four races we are going to keep an eye on: New Jersey Gubernatorial Race, Virginia Gubernatorial Race, the New York City Mayoral Race, and Bobby Valentine’s quest […]
The national launch of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s highly anticipated StillWell Star will take place at Smokingpipes.com and its brick-and-mortar store Low Country Pipe & Cigar, on Friday, November 5th. According to Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust owner Steve Saka, is the first and perhaps only time that he will do such a launch. The in-person launch […]
On this edition of The Smoking Syndicate Roundtable, Ben Lee, Bear Duplisea, Erron Nielsen, and Will Cooper tackle the Undercrown 10 Toro. The Smoking Syndicate Roundtable. where we get a group of media folks (and perhaps in some cases other folks from the industry) together to smoke and review a single cigar. We will […]
On Prime Time Jukebox Episode 53, it’s our second installment of Dave and Coop’s “The Alphabet Series” – a series of shows where we cover songs devoted to a particular letter. Today we go with the letter “B.” Our goal with this show is to use this opportunity cover a number of genres, bands, deep […]
On Episode 54 of Prime Time Jukebox, we continue our recap of the Rolling Stone’s recent refresh of their Top 500 songs of all time. This segment will cover songs 450 to 401 and Dave and Coop will go through some of their favorites that made the list, and assess how fairly these favorites […]
J.C. Newman Cigar Company has plans to refresh its El Baton brand in 2022. In a video posted to the company’s YouTube channel, Drew Newman of J.C. Newman said the brand will be reenvisioned and will be reintroduced back to the market next year. In addition, Newman confirmed a couple of items we reported by […]
Late in 2020, Southern Draw Cigars launched a new regular production line known as Manzanita. The name Manzanita means “little apple.” Southern Draw Cigars is known to name its cigars for flowers and plants. Not only do apples grow on trees, but Manzanita also refers shrubs and small trees that often have a reddish bark. […]
2021 marks the 21st consecutive year that AVO Cigars has released an annual limited edition cigar. It also marks the start of the third decade of this series – an incredible feat in itself. For the first 14 years (2001-2014), the cigar was positioned as a birthday cigar for the late Avo Uvezian. In 2015, […]
Early in 2021, Scandinavian Tobacco Group announced it was splitting the brands of General Cigar into two entities. Several brands that were previously in the General Cigar Company portfolio were moved into a new entity known as Forged Cigar Company. Forged Cigar Company would essentially become its own distribution company complete with its own sales […]
