Thursday, Jan. 5th at 9pm CA time/12am est. The sequel to last year’s turn of the year cigar bares a similar label, however, a stark departure in size from the previous release. At about this time in 2022, the LCA release was created by Dr. Gabby Kafie under the name Año Viejo 2022. The concept […]
Voted on by our OGT community, I am proud to announce the 2022 OGT Cigar of the year: The Chaffiot See No Evil Lonsdale. Initially created for the OGT CIgar Society, the See No Evil Lonsdale is a custom vitola, measuring 6.5×48 in a box-pressed format. During the summer, at the inception of this cigar’s […]
I have written about this cigar before, but not on this size. And besides, it seems to get better and better every time I smoke it. Alec Cuevas, the youngest male of the Cuevas family, blended the Casa Cuevas Sangre Nueva and released at the 2022 PCA trade show. This vitola, a 6×58 Double Perfecto, […]
Winter season is here, and it looks to be a cold one. Generally, my smoking habits at this time of year turn to the ‘darker’ side of cigars. I find that rich, chocolatey Maduros hit the spot just right in the midst of the cold temperatures. The Limited Cigar Association seems to feel the same […]
Black Works Studio is an art lab. So many excellent cigars with a flare for the exotic make up the portfolio of the brand BLK WKS. If you have lit up a Killer Bee Corona, a killer Bee Connecticut, or even a Green Hornet cigar, you know exactly what I am talking about. Several times […]
At the beginning of the month, we shipped out our first batch of the OGT 12 days of Christmas Advent Sampler. Starting on the 13th of December, our community started smoking through the sampler pack. The concentration of the twelve days is special and, in most cases, limited cigars. I wasn’t interested in ‘filler’ sticks […]
Let me say this is my opinion, not facts. This is from my perspective when it comes to top lists of cigars. Each year, around this time, cigar media releases their top picks for ‘Cigar of the year’, which can range from only five cigars up to thirty. The concept of ‘best cigars’ was created […]
2023 is kicking off with a few ‘firsts’. Our FIRST ever collaboration with the blending talents of Paul Stulac is coming to all our members the first week of January. The blend uses, for the FIRST time, a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. And this cigar is the FIRST drop of the new year. Introducing the OGT […]
Back in February, yes, February, my wife and I attended the TPE (Tobacco Plus Expo) trade show. As usual, we stopped by the HVC booth to visit Reinier Lorenzo. He informed us that he had a new cigar coming in March, the most limited blend he had ever released. Rolled at the El Titan de […]
Let’s talk prestigious and elegance. Let’s talk about blending style and mastery of the craft. Let’s talk Foundation Cigars. And, of course, you can’t talk about Foundation Cigar Company without talking about the man behind it, Nick Melillo. In 2017, Nick blended and released the first cigar from his Highclere line, the Highclere Castle Edwardian […]