Pride of Jamaica – House of Barrington
We receive hundreds of cigars a year to review. Today’s selection comes from the manufacturer, who we met at last summers industry trade show. An unassuming man with a passion for his country and cigar making. As a small boy in Jamaica, young Barrington Adams found authentic gold doubloons on his parents’ property, an exciting occurrence, foreshadowing what was to come. These...
A Cigar For John Wayne!
John Wayne (born Marion Morrison) was “only” 6 feet 4 inches tall but his swagger and voice made him appear bigger than that in the 140+ pictures that he starred in. John was chain smoker of cigarettes but were he to select a cigar today that fits his persona, I would bet on the Troncoso by La Cosecha Cigars. This cigar is a “branch”, not just a stick, made to be a 6 ½ X 70 box...
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...
Now Serving Table 36
From what I can gather from the internet, several fellows in Missouri (the show me state) met monthly at table 36 in some St. Louis steakhouse and enjoyed cigars and each other’s company. After solving the world’s problems, as cigar smokers do when they gather together, the discussions turned to an easier subject, cigar tobacco blending, and soon thereafter Table 36 LLC was born. The...
