An Evil Genius Smoking in the White Chapel
This is the second year I’ve noticed Evil Genius at the IPCPR and they continue with their Black and White Chapel line. Very little is published about Evil Genius so there is also little to write. Evil Genius gave me a 5 X 50 White Chapel robusto to review, one of the 4 sizes they offer in this blend ranging from a 6 ¼ X 52 Churchill to a 3.5 X 42 mini. White Chapel has an interesting blend....
Evil Genius Cigars Issues Forth The Dark Chapel
The evil genius persona is well defined in our movie and book culture. High abilities of evil geniuses are combined with low to non-existent moral compasses to generate conflict with the good. Evil Genius Cigars takes the good/bad image an interesting step further by having black and white labels for their 2 offerings. At the 2015 IPCPR Evil Genius provided me with a sample of the Black...
Dissident Bloc is Just OK
Boutique cigar operations sometimes drive change in the industry as their innovations can be successful enough to generate copying by the other industry players. Dissident Cigars is a boutique operation that is a bit beyond the fringe in their marketing so I don’t expect any copycatting there. I sampled their Bloc cigar, a 6 ¼ X 52 toro that wraps a Habano Jalapa leaf around a double Jalapa...
Gurkha Private Select – A Well-Priced Gift For Any Occasion
As the first offering in the Private Select series, Gurkha presents a rum infused cigar in a very sturdy, well made 5 stick gift box. As usual, Gurkha’s packaging is well done and the cigars are in glass tubes with a heavy dose of burgundy colored, wax looking plastic as a sealer – to keep the cigar fresh and the rum inside. The rum is from Ron Abuelo, a blend of Panamanian rums aged 7 years...
Total Flame’s “Wild One” Cigar – the Movie is Better
The Wild One movie was made in 1953 and starred a young Marlon Brando as a biker gang leader causing trouble in small towns. The film became a cult classic and spread the image of outlaw bikers that lives through to today. Just look around at the millions of rebellious “outlaws” riding on our roads dressed like Marlon. The Russian bikers behind Total Flame named a cigar after this famous...
Kings Cigars Has an Improved Baron
Kings Cigars began in 2010 but appears to have released their first cigars to much success at the 2013 IPCPR. In the summer of 2014 I reviewed their Baron 5 X 52 robusto and rated it an overall 3.5 out of 5. In 2015 Kings Cigars indicated to me that they adjusted the blend of the Baron and provided me with another sample. The re-blended Baron has the same Connecticut Ecuador wrapper but the...
