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 […]
Let’s talk origin stories. Several years before OGT even existed, when I was obsessed with cigars but didn’t own a shop, I remember sitting on my front porch, enjoying a stick, and watching interview videos from the summer trade show. An announcement was given about a collaboration between Matt Booth, AJ Fernandez, and Robert Caldwell. […]
LCA Drop is happening this Thursday at 9pm CA time/12am est! What is it? Good question. I anticipate this drop to be closer to my palate than most of the releases through the year. Something I love about the limited sticks dropped by the LCA and Privada Cigar Club, they are often different than what […]
It’s the holiday season, and what do I enjoy more than spending time with family, caroling around the tree, and expressing thanks for the savior’s birth? All of the above with a good cigar in hand, or two or three. Leave it to the guys at the LCA to bring something special to the occasion. […]
It is here! The much anticipated annual release of the LCA Reserva Vintage! Each year, Privada Cigar Club and Christian Eiroa craft one of the finest limited cigars to market, a Honduran Corojo puro that simply delivers on flavor, construction, and elegance. This year, the LCA Reserva Vintage 2022 brings some new aspects of sweetness […]
“It’s a Christmas Miracle!” And believe me, it is. At this time last year, through the OGT Cigar Society, I released the third cigar from the Cigar Clowns we had received, the Festivus. It was a beautiful, box-pressed toro, sporting a Maduro wrapper that imparted notes of cocoa, earth, cream, sweetness, and hints of cinnamon […]