Pedro Martin Fiera
How do you make a good cigar? Well, it takes patience and practice. I guess seventy years is enough of both. Martin Family Cigars is the culmination of over seventy years of experience, Pedro Martin, combines with a youthful passion, Maria Martin. This father and daughter team combines to bring an excellent cigar to market. Father Pedro passed away a couple of years ago, but daughter...
Don Cirilo An Evening Companion
Felipe Gregorio has a varied product line. They have many different brands that smokers of all types enjoy. So, I was eagerly anticipating something new from them. This year at the IPCPR show, they released a line called Don Cirilo. The cigar is named after Don Cirilo, Philip Wynne’s, who owns the brand, wife’s great-grandfather who was a tobacco grower in the Dominican...
Aging Room Havao – Time Well Spent
Aging Room is a special place. It is a place where tobacco comes to rest before being made into cigars It is also a place where the cigars rest so that the flavors will meld into a singular cigar. The problem with many of the cigars today is that they are made in large quantity. That’s not necessarily bad, it just means that it is hard to use small quantities of great tobacco for...
Crazy or What
Somewhere, someone said that blogging was about opinions. And, indeed, that’s mostly what we do at CigarMayven.com. We give you our opinion of cigars, but somehow, since that’s our charter, I don’t think of that as opinion. It’s just what we do. On the other hand, what’s the point of having a forum where people read your opinions without being able to...
CAO Concert
“CAO Concert was inspired by the brand’s roots in Nashville,” commented Ed McKenna, CAO’s senior brand manager. “When listening to music at a concert, or even in your own backyard, it’s a great time to sit back, enjoy a great cigar, and enjoy the people you’re with. That’s what Concert is about.” That’s how the introductory press release reads. For those of you who...
