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A Guide to Premium Cigar Selection and Enjoyment – Part Four
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…
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A Guide to Premium Cigar Selection and Enjoyment – Part Three
An Introduction to Cigar Wrapper Tobaccos I hate to start an article with a bad pun, but, it took a while for me to wrap my head around how to best approach the topic of cigar wrapper tobaccos and simplify what is in fact a very complex topic. In Part One of this series we…
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A Guide to Premium Cigar Selection and Enjoyment – Part Two
“Learning the Language of the Leaf.” (note: If you have not read Part One of the series, please click here to read it.) As I began laying out my notes for the second installment of The Frugal Aficionado, fully intending to discuss cigar wrapper leaves, it occurred to me that there was one topic that…
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A Guide to Premium Cigar Selection and Enjoyment – Part One
Part One: The Very Least You Should Know Let’s face it, premium cigars are not cheap. And quite often cheap cigars are far from premium. As a new aficionado of fine cigars, there some pieces of knowledge that will go a long way toward increasing your enjoyment of these incredible delicacies and help keep some…
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Internet Cigar Blogs / Boards – Part 2
(read Part 1 of the series here) I assume your first question is “What is a FOG?” (if that wasn’t your first question, then for the sake of this article we’re just going to pretend it was…try to cooperate here). You’ll see a lot of abbreviations and acronyms on the blogs, so let’s start…
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Internet Cigar Blogs / Boards – Part 1
So you wanna join the boards, huh? If you ask me (and by reading this, I’ll assume you did), the only thing better than enjoying a hobby is sharing that enjoyment with other like-minded enthusiasts. However, if your hobby is cigars, the increasing amount of public anti-smoking laws are making this more difficult to do….
Cigar Lifestyle
It’s not just an activity. It’s a lifestyle. Well, isn’t it? We’re here to suggest to you why you might want to try a certain cigar with your morning coffee, or enlighten you about the distressing/relaxation benefits of enjoying your cigar with a nice whiskey by the fire or on the porch. Because it is a part of us. And they’re tasty too…right?
