Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust is not a volume over quality brand. Unfortunately I have seen that more frequent than I would like to admit. I would describe the portfolio as attention to detail, flavor, and experience. Steve Saka, formal employee of Drew Estate cigars, left DE to create his own brand. You might be familiar […]
There are limited cigars from very small companies I would put in the category of small batch runs. Then there are companies like the size of Stallone Cigars who do limited runs like the Clydesdale Broadleaf, only 1000 boxes made. Beyond limited, there is ultra limited, and that’s what Stallone’s newest blend Nino is. The […]
At the beginning of 2022, our membership, the OGT Cigar Society, experienced Nicaraguan Corojo tobacco at its finest in the highly sought-after Aganorsa Aniversario Corojo. Each member received a five-pack of the Natural Corojo blend in a 5 x54 gran Robusto vitola. Now that we are halfway into the year, it’s time to revisit Corojo […]
There are many different shades of tobacco and the names of such shades vary depending on the factory. Most commonly the average cigar consumer thinks of light, medium, dark, or Connecticut, Habano or sun-grown, and Maduro. Some think of Claro, Colorado Claro, and so on. If you are Matt Booth it comes to brown, medium […]
Roma Craft cigars are one of the original boutique companies of the 2000’s. Launching with only two blends, CroMagnon and CroMagnon Aquitaine, the company started with somewhat humble beginnings. It is interesting, some might even say brave, to launch their company with only two and one of them boasting a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Connecticut Broadleaf […]
Each year Roma Craft Tobac releases a limited edition box known as Craft. The artistry varies each year as well as the blends, but typically Roma uses something Maduro and something Habano. These cigars showcase what the company can do when the creative side some out, hence the ‘Craft’ in the name. The special lineup […]
Matt Booth has a nack for the outlandish and sometimes the obsered, however, what he does even better is blending tobacco. Once in a blue moon, you might see a small run of something exclusive pop up from Matt Booth and Room 101. Eamples of such cases are Snake Shake, Who Shot Ya, and Cherubs, […]
The LCA is bringing the heat for July 2022. Allow me to introduce you to the full-bodied banger with the purple face, otherwise known as the Purple People Eater. This is a 6×54, San Andres Maduro Toro, with binder and fillers from Nicaragua. The appearance of this cigar might seem unassuming. However, the smoking experience […]
All dekk’d out. That is what you will find about this Drew Estate cigar. The Undercrown 10 or otherwise known as UC10 or otherwise known as Undercrown All dekk’d out is not an easy cigar to miss on the shelf. However you want to cut it, there are a lot of names for this stick […]
The name is Diaz, Eladio Diaz. Brian Desind of Privada Cigar Club and LCA, Limited Cigar Association, draws inspiration from various places. Whether it is the Privada Watch Series, the AJ Fernandez W.A. series, or many others, Privada gives nods and homages to many forms of entertainment and pop culture through their releases. The LCA […]