Me and My Cigar
Understand your cigar by understanding the history behind it. Appreciate your cigar by appreciating the culture and production around it.
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Lighting a Cigar with a Candle?
Since it’s Friday the 13th, we’d like to point out a little cigar superstition. It’s been said that lighting a smoke with a candle, somewhere, somehow a sailor will die! Now, I’m not saying I believe this old wives tale but you’ll never catch me lighting a cigar with a candle! *SPOILER* John Wayne’s character…
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I think my humidors have Seasonal Affective Disorder!
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…
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La Gloria Cubana Coleccion Reserva Blend
The La Gloria Cubana Coleccion Reserva blend is a project that Master Blender, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, has been talking about for two years. It’s the 25th year anniversary of La Gloria Cubana rating in Cigar Aficionado magazine. It’s predominant all Nicaraguan tobacco and has Ernesto’s beloved Sumatra wrapper. Ernesto Perez-Carrillo took over operations of La Gloria Cubana…
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Avo Uvezian Dies at 91
Avo Uvezian, famous jazz pianist turned legendary cigar maker has played his final tune and smoked his final cigar two days after his 91st birthday he has passed away and left us. With deep sorrow and a heavy heart we say good bye to a dear friend! Avo Uvezian starts from very humble beginnings, born…
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The Wonderful Spanish Cedar
Ahhh… The Spanish cedar, what would we do without it? Every cigar aficionado heard of the Spanish Cedar. This is the wood that most cigar boxes are made of, and which thin boards of it line the interior of humidors. But very few are aware that the Spanish Cedar is neither Cedar nor Spanish!
