Cigar Name: Camacho Corojo Toro (6 x 60) Cigar Description: Corojo wrapper around Jamastran Honduran filler Cigar Strength: Full Review of the Cigar itself: Whoever told you that size didn’t matter lied — blatantly. Sometimes, size can matter, particularly when enjoying a full cigar. I got this cigar while in Charleston at the Tinderbox and […]
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Cigar Review: Shorter Robusto that Packs its Flavour
Cigar Name: Saint Luis Rey Reserva Especial Serie G Short Robusto (4.25 x 54) Cigar Description: Nicaraguan Habano wrapper and a Nicaraguan binder with Honduran and Nicaraguan longfiller tobaccos Cigar Strength: Full Review of the Cigar itself: As I eyed this short cigar and took in what it presented, I realized that this would be […]
Cigar Review: A Blue Maduro
Cigar Name: 601 Box-Pressed Blue Maduro Robusto (5.2 x 52) Cigar Description: Nicaraguan Cuban-seed filler with NIcaraguan wrapper Cigar Strength: Medium-Full Review of the Cigar itself: After my last 601, I wasn’t too sure about this one but I thought I’d give it a try. I’ve always like the maduro dark wrappers for that extra […]
Cigar Review: The Grande Realm of the Mighty Domaine
Cigar Name: Avo Domaine #20 (4 5/8 x 50) Cigar Description: Dominican Republic filler with Ecuadorian wrapper Cigar Strength: Full Review of the Cigar itself: I look outside to a grey-white sky and trees in the midst of changing their colour. The morning noise of Queens waking up trickles in from the outside. Buses, cars […]
Cigar Review: Hitting the Mark
Cigar Name: Maker’s Mark 650 (6 x 50) Cigar Description: Sumatra Wrapper with Cuban-seed Dominican long-filler Cigar Strength: Mild-Medium Review of the Cigar itself: The history of bourbon can be traced as far as the late 18th century and while no one person considered to have created bourbon, it’s sometimes attributed to Reverend Elijah Craig. […]
Quick Review: Cameroon to the Max with a Cx2
Cigar Name: CAO Cx2 Toro (6 x 54) Cigar Description: Cameroon wrapper over Cameroon filler Cigar Strength: Medium Review of the Cigar itself: I’ve always loved Cameroon cigars. They have this creaminess that just tastes right. I had heard that the Cx2 by CAO and this definitely didn’t disappoint. I had purchased this yesterday at […]
Cigar Bands: so what do you do with them?
I have to admit to collecting cigar bands and putting them into my cigars-smoked-and-rated book but as I find cigars I like, I’ll get more bands and then.. well, the challenge is what to do with them. One of my recent ideas was to take a bunch and create a bookmark out of them (paste […]