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Lately the box-pressed shape (sometimes called square press, trunk press, or cuadrado) has been a growing trend in the cigar industry. Some love the shape and some can’t stand it, but regardless, there have been more and more of these squared stogies on the market lately. This poses the question of where this unique shape […]
Cigar purging is the subject of a lot of internet controversy, which happens to be my least favorite kind of controversy. I think that in a lot of ways, cigar smoking is highly subjective. I think there’s no definite right or wrong way to smoke a cigar, though tons of people would tell you otherwise. […]
I’m generally not the kind of guy who will shy away from a smoke because it’s cold out. I don’t have an indoor smoking space—we can’t smoke at the office and there’s no smoking at bars or restaurants in New York—so my only consistent option right now is to throw on a few layers, put […]
If there’s one facet of cigar smoking that smokers can rarely agree on, it’s what size best fits the cigar you’re smoking. There are preferences based on time consumption and comfort factor, but does the size of your smoke affect the taste? It all comes down to the draw—if your cigar is underfilled, the cigar […]
In 1984, food scientist Ann C. Noble created the world’s first ‘flavor wheel’. Her wheel focused on the terms wine connoisseurs use to describe the flavors they encounter during wine tastings. It was a big hit with the wine nuts, and soon spawned hundreds of variations for other products where taste and aroma were the […]