Romeo Y Julieta – A Classic in a Tube
I can clearly remember the first time I smoked a Romeo Y Julieta Churchill en Tubo. It was well over thirty years and I remember it well. I was in Quebec and went into a small tobacco shop and asked for something good. The person said it was what he smoked. I think I paid about $4.50 for the stick. And it was wonderful. It was also from Cuba. A week later I was in Washington and...
Pedro Martin Ruby
Sometimes when I go to the humidor I am not interested in something interesting. I just want a good cigar. Perhaps I have been trying many new cigars for a while or I am just tired and want to relax without thinking about the smoke, but I don’t always want to be challenged by my cigar. With that in mind, I reached into the humidor and came out with a Pedro Martin Family Ruby stick....
El Titan de Bronze – Burn Your Fingers Good
There are lots of cigar producers scattered all over the place. Many go unnoticed, others achieve cult status. And most are in between, eking out a living while trying their best to produce quality cigars. But, El Titan de Bronze stands in its own category. Occupying a tiny storefront in Little Havana, Miami, this shop has 8 master rollers who each roll about 150 cigars a day. They work...
Oliveros Sun Grown Gem
Oliveros is a cigar company that is working hard to accomplish its goals. They want to provide the market with both a traditional cigar as well as doing some more edgy things. Rafael Nodal, who runs the company, has managed that quite nicely. He segregates his more traditional offerings into the Oliveros brand and uses his Boutique Blends with the SWAG and Aging Room front marks for his...
Rocky Patel Vintage 92
Rocky Patel makes a nice cigar. And, it’s likely a cigar that everyone has heard of. Rocky entered the industry a number of years ago and made a big splash by focusing on marketing. Marketing won’t work in the long run unless you have a product to back it up. And Rocky always does. It’s also nice that within the Rocky Patel family of cigars you can find something for...
