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News: My Father Cigars Adds 6 x 60s

My Father Cigars announced on Friday afternoon that they would be joining the ever-expanding 6 x 60 ring gauge portion of the cigar market with a pair of new cigars, the My Father #6, a box-pressed 6 x 60 Toro Gordo; along with the Don Pepín Garcia Original in a 6 x 62 Toro Grande. [...]

Weekly News (October 29, 2012)

Editor’s Note: halfwheel got a new feature, read about it here. Viaje Skull and Bones M?stery, V.O.R. #5 and V.P.R. #6 Arrive In Stores — Story here. Room101 OSOK 212 at Cigar Inn — And more details on the future of OSOK and Edgar Hoill here. Viaje Slates DES II For IPCPR 2013 — Story [...]

Press Release: 10th Anniversary Celebration of Don Pepin Garcia and Tatuaje, May 4th, 2013

October 23, 2012 — In commemoration of the 10th year anniversary of Don Pepin Garcia and Tatuaje, both companies have come together to celebrate this special date in Miami, Florida on May 4th, 2013. The month of May marks the precise month in which Don Pepin opened up his small factory in Little Havana and [...]

Weekly News (February 27, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This past week halfwheel launched its own blog. While the posts will not appear on the front page, they will show up if you subscribe to the RSS feed and/or get updates via e-mail. As explained here, the purpose of the blog will be to better have a dialogue with the readers about [...]

News: My Father Changes Packaging to Three Lines & Discontinues JJ Maduro

My Father Cigars has changed packaging on its Don Pepin Garcia (Blue Label), JJ and Cuban Classic (Black Label) lines. The changes went into effect earlier this month. “You could tell that they were from the same family before, but if you were just looking at the box it could have been made at three [...]

Redux: Don Pepin Garcia Firecracker

Today is the second review of our Monday morning tradition at halfwheel, redux reviews. For more info about redux reviews and all of other review types, click here. Today’s redux review is of a cigar I reviewed back when SmokingStogie.com was still relatively new, the Don Pepin Garcia Firecracker. I wrote this back in September [...]

Review: Don Pepin Garcia Firecracker

In my quest to try every cigar that Pepín García makes, I ran across the Don Pepin Garcia Firecracker, which is a cigar that is make exclusively for Two Guys Smoke Shop in New Hampshire. It looked interesting shape wise, so I ordered a few to try out. The stick itself is a 3 X [...]