March 2006
Wed 1 Mar 2006
As you can see the Flor de Copan Belicoso is quite a nice looking cigar. It comes wrapped in its own cedar strip held neatly in place by two bands at either extreme. Remove the cedar and you will see a very clean, light wrapper, with no blemishes or imperfections. It feels solid and thick. […]
Mon 27 Feb 2006
Having a premium cigar is great; having a perfect marriage between a cigar and a drink is sublime. Yet for all that, it’s not always easy to know how to pair a cigar and a drink. Often, by the time you find out they don’t go too well together, it’s a may not be possible […]
Fri 24 Feb 2006
Davidoff’s Limited Edition this year is a Robusto Intenso, made with six different kinds of tobacco, in an effort to capture six different notes: spicy, with aged Cuban seed Criollo from the Dominican Republic; intense, with Piloto from an exclusive plantation from the Yaque valley; complex, with extra aged and fermented San Vicente tobacco from […]
Wed 22 Feb 2006
Ahh… the smell that fills the room when you light up a Cohiba siglo cigar. The Siglo III is no exception. The sweet notes, mixed with dark leather and earth, are nothing short of captivating, but I’m getting ahead of myself…
The Cohiba Siglo III is a very well constructed cigar; I’d say flawless. You can […]
Mon 20 Feb 2006
An interesting thing happened to me yesterday at the tobacconist’s shop. The guy, who I assume (from looking at the photos on the wall) has worked in the business for many years, asked me if I was looking for Cuban or non-Cuban cigars. I told him that I am looking for both, and that I […]
Fri 17 Feb 2006
Ok, you love cigars, but you always feel you need to smoke them outdoors to avoid people’s complaints about how your place smells. You always try to smoke outside, but the bitter cold of winter makes it impossible anymore, plus it ruins your perfectly humidified precious smokes. There’s got to be an alternative to that […]
Sun 12 Feb 2006
Talk radio superstar Rush Limbaugh spent the better part of this week at the Pebble Beach Golf Course, where he participated in the AT&T National Pro-Am, walking from hole to hole with a Double Ligero Chisel in his mouth. So much does he like this cigar, that he will be seen smoking two of these, […]
Thu 9 Feb 2006
It’s amazing the feel that some cigars have the moment you pick them up and hold them in your hand. I always find that if it’s a great cigar, it will feel like a great cigar, and this is certainly the case for the Joya de Nicaragua Celebracion Torpedo. Just picking it up, taking look […]
Tue 7 Feb 2006
Midnight was approaching (in Europe) and the local programming coming to an end when I went to my humidor to chose a good companion for what was to be an all-nighter of NFL madness; yes, the greatly anticipated Superbowl XL was finally here.
I looked around and picked the Padron 6000 I had kept in my […]
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