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The Consensus: 2011 Awards

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, take as many Top Cigar list as I could, run the numbers and then [...]

don’t reinvent the wheel

What just happened? Don’t worry, I share that feeling as well. Before any readers start freaking out about the loss of SmokingStogie or TheCigarFeed, we thought it might be a good idea to explain why we shut down both sites. So without further ado, an introduction to halfwheel. Every cigar blog starts with the same [...]

Some Thoughts On "Cigars: The Heart and Soul of Cuba"

The central question in this movie is BS. Plain and simple, under no circumstances am I buying that James Suckling had any doubts why Cuban cigars were, as he puts it, the greatest in the world. In his recently released film, Cigars: The Heart and Soul of Cuba, the former European Editor of Cigar Aficionado doesn’t [...]

Question: Do You Agree With Our Reviews?

We will have a review on Friday, and our Top 10 List will be all next week, but I thought I would post a question I have been wanting to ask for a while of you, the loyal reader: Do You Agree With Our Reviews? We all know that taste is subjective, and that just [...]

Icons of Cigars™ — Matt Booth

This is the last of the Icons of Cigars™ portraits I was able to shoot at the IPCPR Show in Vegas this year… I was a bit surprised when I met Matt Booth in person for the first time. Considering his “Media Image,” I expected a stuck up ego maniac. What I met instead was a [...]

Icons of Cigars™ — Jonathan Drew

Jonathan Drew is a very unique man. A true cigar guy, larger than life, always talking, always laughing, but also extremely knowledgeable about everything related both to the business and tobacco side of things. Although I just recently met him face to face for the first time, I have talked (on email, twitter, text and [...]

A Visit to La Casa del Habano Playa del Carmen

I recently traveled to Playa del Carmen for work, and thought I would stop by the LCDH there and see how it is situated, and gather some info for anyone who is planning on going down there since it is NOT easy to find. It is an extremely small store (only one room with a [...]

Miscellaneous: Boxes of Cigars

So, I was looking at my (seven) Vinotemps the other day, and realized it had been a while since I had taken stock of my cigar boxes…so, I decided to stack them up, and see how they…um…stacked up This is every box that I have. Some are less than totally full, some have cigars other [...]

Miscellaneous: Thanksgiving Rare Cigars (2010)

Last year, I started a cool event that I hoped I could continue, I was thinking last year that most of us are always waiting for that one day to smoke that one great cigar, but sometimes years go by without it happening. We might keep waiting and waiting and waiting… So, for the second [...]

Miscellaneous: What Is In My Humidor?

I have gotten many emails and PMs over the past year or so, asking to show the sticks in my (various) Vinotemps. Well, you can see some photos of them that I posted HERE that are about 2 years old (and I have 7 Vinos now, not two). But, I have started trying to organize [...]