Padron 1926 Serie Maduro When I decided to form a Cigar Hall of Fame, I made a decision to select one “wildcard” cigar per year. When I started looking at candidates, I went through a lot of my favorites and essentially it came down to a battle of two Padrons: the Padron 1964 Anniversary and […]
2011 Cigar Coop Hall of Fame Inductee: Padron 1926 Serie Maduro
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Padron 1926 Serie Maduro Cigar Coop Hall of Fame Inductee Name: Padron 1926 Serie Maduro Inductee Category: Cigar (Wildcard Selection) Inductee Year: 2011 Each year a wildcard selection will be made to the Cigar Hall of Fame. A wildcard is an additional selection outside the #1 cigar and memorable smokes from the year before – […]
Cigar Preview – Update: Padron Family Reserve 85th Maduro Specifications
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Padron Family Reserve 85th Maduro One piece of information I found out from IPCPR 2011 was that the Padron Family Series No. 47 was rebranded the Padron Family Series 85th in honor of Jose O Padron’s 85th birthday. Unfortunately I did not have much more information than the rename. From the appearance of the 85th […]
Cigar Preview: Padron Family Reserve 85th Maduro – aka Family Reserve No 47 (Part 9 of the 2011 IPCPR Series)
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Padron Family Reserve 85th So I will preface this by saying I don’t have too much more to say about this release other than the Maduro was on display at the 2011 IPCPR. The big news essentially is that this cigar – which was being known as the Padron Family Reserve 47th Anniversary has been […]
Cigar Review: Padron 1964 Anniversary Maduro Torpedo
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Padron 1964 Anniversary Torpedo Last month (June 2011), I put up on my monthly “battle of the cigars” (formerly “battle of the stogies). In that matchup, I pitted two Padron cigars that are considered classics in the industry – the Padron 1926 Maduro and the Padron 1964 Maduro. I admit, when the poll came back, […]
2011 Cigar Mock Draft
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Lately I’ve been trying to take this web-site into more of a hard-core direction in terms of cigar information. I’m not sure how successful this transition has been, but I’m trying. There are times where I realize I do need to take a step back and have a little fun. With tonight being the first […]
The Odd Couple:(Tales from the IPCPR in New Orleans Part 6)
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There were a lot of memories I took back from IPCPR. But perhaps there was no memory that stood out than when I saw a meeting of the minds take place at the Drew Estate Booth. Two giants in the Cigar industry were having a conversation – well maybe more like a summit. The big […]