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In an act of brazen disregard for personal freedoms, the Village of Great Neck, NY, which is just a scant two miles away from the New York City border, has banned smoking on sidewalks, in public parks, or near businesses. This makes the community of 9,500 residents the first in the state to outlaw public […]
Cuvée and Cusano are two of the classiest names in cigars today, and each brand had an excellent limited offering in 2010. Cusano 15th Anniversary, which is limited to only 2,000 boxes, is a slender Lancero with a unique Ecuadorian hybrid wrapper. The slim shape provides a great wrapper-to-filler ratio, which allows for the peppery, […]
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 […]
I’ve enjoyed every cigar I’ve reviewed on here—don’t get me wrong, there have been duds, I just didn’t write about them. But every once in a while I get a stogie that I feel like raving about, and the Gurkha Signature Red Rothschild is one of those stogies. I don’t understand why Gurkha called this […]
Going back to work after a long weekend is never an easy thing to do, and neither is driving about 20 miles on crappy roads after our first real snowstorm of the season. But knowing that I’d get to smoke a stogie when I arrived gave me a little more of an incentive, so I […]