Last night on our Stogie Geeks podcast, we unveiled our team’s top ten selections for Cigar of the Year. Now that Stogie Geeks and Cigar Coop are merged, we are including each of our team member selections (Paul, Mark Jr, and Stogie Santa, Coop) as well as a composite list for our Stogie Geeks Top […]
2013 Year in Review: Top Ranked Cigar Companies for 2013
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Our 2013 Year in Review coverage concludes with a look at how the various cigar companies did on Cigar Coop for 2013. This is the second consecutive year we have done such an exercise. This analysis is simple, we base it a company’s average numerical score for cigar assessed on Cigar Coop. This year we […]
2013 Year in Review: The Honorable Mentions
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In 2013, we are introducing a major change to Honorable Mentions. For the past three years of our Cigar of the Year countdown, we have unveiled a list of “Honorable Mentions”. While we didn’t rank these cigars, we picked ten cigars that just missed making our Top 30 countdown. While we didn’t intend this to […]
2013 Year in Review: Best Line Extensions for 2013
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The vision behind our Cigar Coop Cigar of the Year Coutndown is to find the best new blends that were smoked in the past year. At the same time, there are many great blends that have already been released that add line extensions in the form of new vitolas. These vitolas share the same tobacco […]
2013 Cigar Year in Review: Best Aged Cigars for 2013
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For the third consecutive year, we list our best aged cigars for 2013. The purpose of this category is to look at some cigar lines that were released the previous year, and see the impacts of age on them. This year we extend the category to include ten cigars. 1) The cigars must have been […]
Editor’s Corner Volume 3, Number 2: Epic Encounters 2013 – Analysis and Numbers
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Another Cigar of the Year countdown is the annuls of Cigar Coop, and now Stogie Geeks history. We are planning to do some more discussion as well as release our Stogie Geeks staff picks on our January 9th show. . As we said with our vision, the goal of the Epic Encounters 2013 Cigar of the Year […]
2013 Year in Review: Top 12 Cigar Stories/Themes
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The Cigar of the Year Countdown will resume tomorrow on December 31st, 2013 at 3pm Eastern Time with the announcement of the #2 Cigar of the Year followed at 4pm Eastern by the #1 Cigar of the Year. For 2013, Cigar Coop continued its focus as the industry leader in cigar news and cigar reviews. […]