At the risk of being politically incorrect, Ho, Ho, Ho! I’m waiting for someone to take offense to that and ban it, everything else upsets someone nowadays! So it goes in the cigar industry, several years ago, cigar companies were falling all over one another sending me boxes upon boxes of cigars to give away in the now legendary CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways, which usually went for 13, 14 or 15 days and made a lot of people happy! It made me happy too, but it took a toll, it was a huge time investment at a busy time of year. So, with the cigar companies unable to provide piles of cigars, I’ve scaled back, and dig into my personal vault ‘o goodies to spread some holiday cheer! (Oh crap, with the new job and all, I just remembered I forgot to organize a secret Santa this year! Why did nobody remind me?). So here’s the first holiday giveaway of 2018!
As you know, Ventura Cigar Co. has been showing up frequently in the news here over the last year or so, and has been a company of interest of mine for a few years. I’ve been a fan for about 5 years since smoking a Psyko Seven when I was a guest on The Cigar Authority in 2013. I think it was the 2016 IPCPR show that they had a media event at their booth where they highlighted their Case Study line, and gave out some neat swag, which has rested in storage since then waiting for me to find a proper purpose for it.
The central item here is a cool 15 count travel humidor. It’s not going to hold 15 6x60s, but it’s big enough for a long weekend, but not too big to take up a lot of space in your luggage. Actually, it’s just about the right size in my opinion, if I didn’t have a bunch of travel humidors already, we wouldn’t be having this conversation! Along with it is an aluminum water bottle, and a hardbound blank journal, great for recording your cigar notes, listing grievances against your enemies, or whatever. I will, no doubt, rummage through my humidors and find some appropriate cigars to include in the travel humidor too!
Thanks to Kevin at CigarProp.com, there will also be one of his Lighter Bleed Tools included!
Thanks to the folks at Ventura, even though they have no idea they are sponsoring this! Standard rules apply, leave a comment to enter, must be of legal age to win, and I’ll select a winner on my next post, which might be Friday, might be Sunday, we’ll see how things go!
Until the next time,
CigarCraig 
I’ve been having contests pretty much every month now for the last couple years, but this month will be the mother of all contests!! The rules will be a little different this time. Everyone is eligible to win a prize, but if you win once, you’re exempt from winning again. The prizes will vary from a sampler to a whole box of cigars or more! You never know what the next prize will be, and, while no one prize is better than another, like cigars themselves, not every prize will suit everyone. The previous day’s winner will be announced the following day and I will ship all the prizes out the following week, so don’t make me chase you down for your addresses. A couple prizes will ship direct from the folks who are providing that prize. CigarCraig.com is not responsible for lost, mutilated or misdirected mail.
