Cigar Review: Smoke Magazine, Sample #25
We recently had the honor of being panelists for Smoke Magazine and we are sharing with you our four blind reviews. Today is our third installment. Once again, the reveal is made at the end of the post. Smoke Magazine Sample #25 Aesthetics, 84 – Sporting a light to medium brown wrapper that is veiny [...]
Cigar Review: Smoke Magazine, Sample #24
We recently had the honor of being panelists for Smoke Magazine and this week we are sharing with you our four blind reviews. Today is our second installment. Once again, the reveal is made at the end of the post. Smoke Magazine Sample #24 Aesthetics, 90 – Clean exterior with spider web veins and a [...]
Cigar Review: Smoke Magazine, Sample #23
A few months ago Evan Dashevsky gave us an opportunity to review some samples for an upcoming issue of Smoke Magazine. Within a couple days of the email, we received 4 different cigars, with 3 samples of each. It was our first blind tasting and the reveal was not made until after we submitted our [...]
Boutique Wednesday Cigar Review: Declaration from Jameson Cigars
Size: 5.5×50, Iniquity Wrapper: Dominican Habano (’98) Binder: Dominican Criollo (’98) Filler: Dominican Strength: Medium-Full Price: Box of 21, $120 Grade: 8.7 Jameson Cigars, founded in 2007, is most known for their Red and Black Label, which debuted at the 2008 IPCPR and have received high praise; their Red Label Perfecto received a panel average [...]
Cigar Review: Rocky Patel Nording
Size: 5×54, Short Torpedo Wrapper: Costa Rican Maduro Binder: Mexican Filler: Nicaraguan Strength: Full Grade: 8.7 Price: Box of 25, $119.99 This particular brand was created by Rocky Patel for pipe maker Erik Nording. Nording produces over 50,000 pipes per year, 90% of which are exported to other countries. You can learn more about Eric [...]
