Weekly News (May 14, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: Despite this tweet, it was somewhat of a slow week in terms of cigar news per say. Perhaps the largest news was the introduction of the Tobacco Tax Equity Act, which would inevitably increase taxes on various types of cigars. This comes only a few weeks after concerning language in a recent Senate appropriations [...]

Weekly News (February 6, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: This one is pretty simple. There are some technical issues plaguing the site currently. We know of two somewhat major issues. First and foremost, commenting from a computer seems to not be working, although commenting from mobile devices seems to be working fine. We are trying to resolve this issue and think we [...]

The Consensus: 2011 Awards

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For the 2010 rendition of this concept, click here to see Brian Hewitt’s work. Before anyone starts, I started this long before Bill Berris posted his rendition of this a few days at Cigar Snapshot. (Bill’s serves as a interesting sample of this, although there are noticeable differences beyond population size.) The concept was simple, [...]

Review: Tatuaje La Casita Criolla HCBF (Prerelease)

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Today we will be taking a look at another prerelease regular production cigar from Tatuaje, the La Casita Criolla. Early last year Pete Johnson of Tatuaje announced that he would be releasing two new lines in the following year, one being the Fausto (which we reviewed here) and the other being today’s review, the La [...]

Weekly News (March 7, 2011)

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A week after Jerry Cruz proclaimed that the only one who did news was CA, and everyone else shouldn’t really try; Jerry did a bit of “advertising” for himself over at Stogie Review. This time it was two massive updates to the respective futures of E.P. Carrillo and Tatuaje. In addition, this week saw updates [...]

Weekly News (January 17, 2011)

StogieReview decided that it would become the place to break all news regarding cigar shops closing up. First, Walt White informed us that Demuth Tobacco Shop, the country’s oldest cigar shop (founded in 1770), was not just temporarily closing, but shutting down for good. A few days later Jerry Cruz announced that his home shop, [...]

State of the Brand: Tatuaje

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It’s unlikely that there will be a day three installment of this one… but for now here is day two. Pete Johnson, owner of Tatuaje, has spent the past week in Nicaragua at Pepín’s factory finalizing blends for the summer. For those that shy away from the various forms of social media, but still love [...]