Estilo Cubano – A Nice Smoke
One of the nice perks of writing cigar reviews is that you never know what you are going to smoke next. Just yesterday I had a long drive in front of me and chose a rich dark cigar that I knew nothing about for the afternoon part of the journey. This stick turned out to be a nice one from Ventura Cigar Company called Estilo Cubana. Upon first inspection you notice a few nice things. The...
Gurkha Cellar Reserve — A Vintage Cigar
The Gurkha Cellar Reserve is a new release from the recently renamed Gurkha Cigar Group. As soon as I received this stick I was curious both because of the interesting shape of the cigar as well as the complex label. The label is large with lots of information. It tells you that the cigar is a Dominican puro, and the tobacco has aged 15 years. I was also looking forward to a nice long...
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....
St. Luis Rey Titan a Full Bodied Giant
This is a large cigar. The tendency over the last few years of smokers is to seek out and enjoy larger shapes. And, this will certainly fit that bill. Cigar ring size or gauge is measured in 64ths of an inch, so 60 is almost a full inch around. That’s a lot of cigar. In addition to being a bigger cigar with more tobacco, larger rings smoke cooler. The thicker the cigar the...
Gurkha Shaggy is not Slouchy
Recently I have smoked a few cigars that have an unusual foot. Sometimes they have been tapered and on other occasions there has been extra wrapper added to give you a singular taste of that tobacco. This cigar has an unfinished foot. The wrapper just stops about half an inch short of the end of the cigar. That makes it really easy to light without giving it any bad taste. This cigar...
Punch Prince Consort
Has anyone ever been to Cigar Camp? Well, that the first place I smoked one of these babies. About 15 years ago I was travelling in the Pittsburgh area and someone told me about a cigar shop that had this thing called Cigar Camp on the weekends. Well, I went and found Mark Adams of Blooms tobacco. It was a great shop filled with sofas and deep chairs, plenty to munch on and of course, beverages....
