Azan Delivers Value in Short Campana
Roberto Pelayo Duran has enjoyed a long career in the cigar industry, partly in production and partly with the distribution organization of Cubatabaco, the Cuban state tobacco company. This distribution organization, Habanos S.A. formed in 1994, controls the promotion, distribution, and export of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide for Cubatabaco. In 2000, the French/Spanish...
News & Drew Estate and Royal Gold Cigars Announce NIRVANA
Miami, FL, February 5, 2014: Royal Gold Cigars has partnered with renowned cigar manufacturer Drew Estate for their latest premium, hand-rolled cigar release, NIRVANA CAMEROON SELECTION. The new cigar features a luscious, light-brown, Rosado wrapper grown in the Eastern province of Cameroon, Africa. The wrapper is grown by small farmers who, when it’s time to cure the tobacco, clear an...
Ex NASA Employee Launches a Burning Rocket
What do you do when your Dominican Republic pro-basketball career is terminated by injuries, the MBA degree you earned has no pull into any particular direction and your position at NASA is no longer interesting enough? Why not jump into an old love/new career and try to make money at the same time. Do what Omar de Frias did – quit the office grind and start your own cigar company! And he...
Psyko 7 Review and Contest
I have been reviewing cigars for may years now and can’t remember a more interesting review. Ventura Cigar is a company that has been making interesting cigars for the past few years. Based in the San Fernando Valley, just outside of LA their cigars have an LA sort of vibe. There is so much activity and new cigars at the annual cigar show, that I’ll be smoking new cigars for...
Table 36 Needs an Ashtray
Table 36 launched their first cigar, called Fellowship, in 2012 (see our review entitled “Now Serving Table 36”). It was successful enough for Table 36 to add another blend to the line, this time called Integrity. If the next blend is called Strength, then the fellows at Table 36 are modeling themselves after the FIST clan, and the last brand would be called Teamwork. Table 36 uses the...
