How would you describe smoking a cigar? Do you smoke at home or at lounges? We all have our own opinion but what is yours? Take a look at this mini documentary by Philip Bloom and see what it means to be a cigar connoisseur. Let us know your thoughts!
Bloom interviews cigar customer, Marv Russell as he describes what it means to be a cigar connoisseur. This video was shot within 2 hours at NYC Fine Cigars in New York, NY.
Executive editor, Gordon Mott, of Cigar Aficionado shows us how to light a cigar using only 3 matches without cutting the head off or drawing. After seeing this video we were a bit curious because it was something we’ve never tried before. He says this method allows you to really taste the true flavor of…
Part Four: Binders – The Other Wrapper Leaf Pork may be the “other white meat,” but cigar binders are the “other wrapper leaf” on modern cigars. Cigars as we know them, composed of wrapper, binder and filler, are relatively new inventions. Dating back to the 1640’s, the first cigars constructed using all three components were…
Mark Twain once said “Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man’s enjoyment of his cigar.” Truer words were never spoken. But alas, Twain could not see the future and the demands of the modern world that separate a man from his cigar. One of which that we…
Padron Damaso cigars comes in a silky and smooth Connecticut-seed wrapper. It uses a blend of Nicaraguan leaves to create a pleasant mild to medium-bodied profile. Mike’s Cigars offers the: No. 8 (Corona) 5 1/2″ x 46″ and No. 15 (Toro) 6″ x 52″.
“Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.”
Here in the great north of West Bend we’re beginning to feel the first bites of Falls nip in the air. Smoking my San Luis Rey outside last night made me wish I had put on a sweatshirt before heading out. The beginning of the end as all northerners will understand. It’s also one of…
