Earlier this year, General Cigar Company released the seventh installment under its Macanudo Inspirado Series, the Macanudo Inspirado Brazilian Shade. The Macanudo Inspirado Series is a series of cigars under General Cigar Company’s Macanudo brand that brings a contemporary look and feel. It’s also served as an innovation platform for the Macanudo brand – incorporating […]
This week the Meerapfel family has announced it is re-introducing its own cigar brand. The Meerapfel family is best known for being tobacco brokers and in particular are known for brokering tobacco out of Cameroon, Africa. In addition, the Meerapfels work with Arturo Fuente Cigar Company on its international distribution outside of the U.S. While […]
For Episode 204, we welcome Peter Gross of ATL Cigars to our program. ATL Cigars is a brand that has been gaining traction in the southeast, and recently the company has struck a partnership with Tabacalera Pichardo to produce their latest cigar. We’ll look at Peter’s journey in the cigar business and find out all […]
Drew Estate has announced it is shipping its Undercrown Dojo Dogma releases to retailers. These are box-pressed line extensions of the Undercrown Maduro and Undercrown Sun Grown lines done in collaboration with Cigar Dojo. The Undercrown Dogma Maduro was first released in 2014 as a small batch limited production sold initially through Smoke Inn. It’s […]
Seasonal release cigars are not anything new in the cigar industry. We have seen cigars over the years come out for Independence Day, Christmas, Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, etc. In 2015, Reinier Lorenzo of HVC Cigars decided to release a cigar for what has become an unofficial holiday particularly in the U.S. and that is […]
General Cigar has announced a new limited-edition line called 60. The first release will be called the Torque and it will mark what General says is their largest size to date – a massive 8 x 60 vitola. Produced at STG Estelí in Nicaragua, the CAO 60 Torque features a Honduran Habano wrapper, Nicaraguan Habano […]
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 […]
Ferdinand Piet joins us as our special guest for Special Edition #108. Recently Ferdinand was forced to shut down his website, Ministry of Cigars. We will get into the story what happened and why cigar media has virtually ignored this story. We will also have a segment on “Belle of the Ball” vitolas (and those […]
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 […]
Episode 51 was inspired by long-time listener Dennis G. On this show, Dave and Coop will attempt to win the other over with a genre of music that the other normally doesn’t listen to. We’ll also try to win Dennis over with a couple of genres of music that aren’t in his wheelhouse. For this […]
