What’s In Your Humidor: Paul Maldonado of Maldonado Dynasty Cigars
What’s in your humidor? At the moment, I only have The Mogul in the humidor I’m afraid. Guilty! I happen to be in “perfectionist-mode”and I end up testing The Mogul in different vitolas to get a sense of change in flavor profile. My favorite in my brand would be The Mogul because it happens to be [...]
Cigar Review: CAO Spotlight
We are concluding our week of CAO related news. We spent the last three days interviewing former CAO Lifestyle Marketing Director Jon Huber, who has recently formed a new company, Crowned Heads. To read the 3 part interview click here, here, and here. We thought we’d conclude the week with a spotlight on the CAO [...]
Cigar Interview: Jon Huber – Part Three
To view Part One and Two of this interview, click here and here. Part Three: A New Day – Marriage and Crowned Heads Anyone that follows you on Twitter knows that you’re recently engaged and will be married this summer. First off, congrats, and second, what are your plans for honeymooning!? Thank you very much. Wow, [...]
Cigar Interview: Jon Huber – Part Two
Today we continue our three part interview with Jon Huber. To view part one, please click here. Part Two: Your Departure from CAO The Merger In 2007, the climate at CAO began to shift. How did the 2007 merger with Scandinavian Tobacco Group affect the daily operations at CAO? Let’s just say that it became [...]
Cigar Interview: Jon Huber – Part One
We are very excited to have an in-depth interview with Jon Huber. Jon formerly served as Director of Lifestyle Marketing and left a few months ago when CAO was merged into General Cigars. Over the next three days, Jon will talk about his early days at CAO, life in the office during the merger, his [...]

