PowerHouse by Cuban Crafters – a Full Bodied Smoke
A couple of weeks ago I spend a nice afternoon at Cuban Crafters in Miami. It is a colossal store, with a large walk-in humidor, barbershop, wine shop, coffee bar, and lounge. It is at this location that they roll their Miami series cigars. At the factory in Nicaragua, they roll many others including the Powerhouse. It comes in two shapes, a giant Chairman of the Board and a Belicoso....
Cusano P1 is a Bundled Delight
Cusano deconstructed To be honest, I can’t remember the last time I smoked a bundled cigar. And, if I didn’t know that this stick was a bundled product, I couldn’t have tasted a difference. Bundled cigars are frequently made using left over or scrap tobacco. It is not seconds in the sense that it is inferior in any way, but rather, it may be...
E.P. Carillo Long History- New Cigar
Ernie Carillo has a long history in the cigar business. His father, made cigars for many years after coming to this country form Cuba after the revolution and Ernie after a stint as a Jazz musician returned to the family busines – making La Gloria Cubana cigars many years ago. After a very successful run at the helm of this cigar company he sold out. Shortly thereafter he founded EP...
Camacho Havana Diademas Lives Up to its Packaging
They say that good things come in small boxes. So what do you make of something that comes in an elaborate box? Often, it is a case of overblown hype. But here, with the Camacho Havana Diademas it is not. Rather, the cigar outshines its fanciful packaging. Camacho cigars are the children of the Eiroa family. With a heritage in cigars and tobacco going back to the early 1900s in Cuba,...
Sunday Share
A Round-Up of What is on the Cigar Blogs Starting this week, I thought I’d share with you some of what is going on on the other cigar blog’s. This will giv eyou an opportunity to keep up with your favoriteson several blog’s without leaving our home site. On Stogie Review.com, they reviewed a Nub Cameroon. I just recently posted about the Nub Habano, so it might be...
