Tabak Especial Negra

This Cigar with its Connecticut wrapper, Nicaraguan Sumatra and Criollo filler, and un-groomed foot is a great tobacco experience. It is fused and blended with the finest trade espresso coffee and rich tobacco leaves to give your taste buds a nice wake-up. Small subtleties of espresso and roasted nuts appear until the nub. It is [...]

Purple Lable (cigar.com) Torpedo

 
A Dominican filled cigar with a Connecticut wrapper with a mild flavor. It is a good cigar, for the beginners and for those who like a lite smoke.

Save a mold-e Cigar

If you have a batch of moldy cigars, don’t panic. Take all you cigars and place them on a newspaper and carefully check each one for mold on the wrapper and in the foot of the cigar (the end you light). If you find it only on the wrapper you might be ok. If you [...]

Save a cigar if too dry or too wet

TOO DRY!!!
Tell tell signs that your cigar is too dry. It is lighter than it seems for the size of the cigar. It is as hard as a rock. If you gently, and I mean gently, press the cigar between you pointer finger and thumb and find it won’t give you any play in the tobacco. [...]

Rockey Patel Maduro Missile(Torpedo)

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Wow!! What a robust strong flavor. Spicy and I love it. It was a quick smoke for me, about 30 min. I couldn’t stop puffing on this outstanding cigar. It was aged for 5 years before release and reigns from Honduran tobacco. The nose of the cigar is quite deceptive, I would buy some and [...]

Bolivar Pyramid (Belicoso Finos)

This cigar was a fantastic smoke. A light tobacco with subtleties of brick and citrus. It left a good finish in the mouth and paired good with a Modelo Negro. The sharpness and richness for the beer brought forth all those wonderful mellow flavors. I smoked it in 1 hour and at 5.5 inches that is impressive. [...]

Diamond Crown Maduro

This was a Fine cigar. It had a mellow smoke and a non-existent aftertaste. A bold cigar and a 58 gauge at that. A sweet forward taste and a finish with aged smokey wood. I smoked it in about 1.5 hours and it was accompanied with a 20 year single malt Scotch. The scotch brought out [...]

Humidor regulation and needs

A humidor is a vessel that has a controlled environment. It can be anything from a $7000.00 dollar hand crafted piece of furniture to a plastic bag with a wet paper towel. A humidor consists of two things; a sealed vessel or container and a combination of temperature and humidity regulation. Depending on your budget, the [...]

Cigar Basics

Cutting the Cigar
Once you have selected your cigar, you will need to cut the closed end. All Havana’s have a double cap over the head end – this end goes in your mouth. If you attempt to smoke a cigar the other way around, you will find that half way through it will unravel and [...]

Red Cloud Brand Cigar???

This cigar was recommended by the “Red Cloud” attendant. I walked in and asked for a robust maduro that was easy on my pocket. He made a bee line for the house brand of cigars and proceeded to tell me that would be a nice dark smoke with great flavor…..
Well…..dude you were wrong. This could [...]