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October 30, 2019 · 11:04 am

The New Cigar Mojo in King of Prussia, PA

Yesterday I dropped by the new location of Cigar Mojo, the cigar shop and lounge in King of Prussia, PA.  They opened the first shop back in 2013, and I posted about it here. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, they’ve had their challenges over the years, but Ive been to some great events, and it’s turned into one of the premier lounges in the area. To those not familiar with the area, the name King of Prussia sounds like an odd name f

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or a town,  but it’s adjacent to Valley Forge, which holds a significant place in American History, and the Prussian troops played a large part in the Continental Army’s success, hence the area being named after their king. Of course, none of that has anything to do with Cigar Mojo, except that I’m sure some tobacco was smoked at the King of Prussia Inn in the 1700s, as tobacco was one of the things that funded the war. Anyway, The Cigar Mojo guys had enjoyed success in their beautiful lounge,  but decided to move a half mile down the road into a vacant bank building and create a bigger and bet

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ter Mojo. This new location is nestled between an Aldi super market and a Duluth Trading Company store, and has plenty of parking (where as the old location was nestled between a Wawa and a cemetery, and had limited parking). I have only included exterior photos today, as they had just received their occupancy permit and were in the process of moving in, so, while functional, the inside was in a bit of disarray. Trae, one of the owners, was busily stocking the large and centrally located humidor with their generous stock. The store has three lounges, a public lounge to the left of the humidor, the members lounge to the right, and an outdoor lounge in the rear of the building. All of them have plenty of seating, and TVs, even the outdoor area. There is a dominos room and also a kitchen I’m told. As I said, the large humidor is in the center, when you walk in the door, it’s in front of you, and you move through the vestibule to the left to enter the retail space. I look forward to seeing it when it’s all cleaned up and organized, it was understandably a mess as they had to hurry to vacate the old location.

 

As always, you can go to any cigar shop anywhere and strike up a great conversation with a total stranger. Sure, I’ve been to Mojo plenty of times, and there were several people who came in and out who I knew, but you can just sit and talk to someone new and have mutual friends and interests and have a great time. Trae was kind enough to find me a box of RoMaCraft Baka in the 4″ x 52 Bantu size and open it up and sell me some singles, one of which I smoked in the public lounge. I had gone in thinking I was just going to smoke a particular cigar, then, as I saw the chaos in the humidor, and the tons of cigars there, I forgot what it was I was thinking of. So I grabbed a couple Cromagnons, and, half jokingly, asked Trae where the Bakas were.  He said they had them, and dove into a pile and found a box. I really enjoyed this cigar! It’s not as powerful as other cigars in the RoMa line, it’s got a sophistication, along with the nutty “Camerooniness”. The size was deceiving too, as it easily burned for an hour. This is a winner, although I doubt anyone would be surprised. 

 

That’s all for today, until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

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October 27, 2019 · 11:31 am

An Afternoon at Famous Smoke Shop and Their Dunbarton 80th Anniversary Cigar

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n beset with a head cold all week, adding insult to injury, of course. I did have a productive phone interview with a recruiter which could lead to something hopefully, so it wasn’t a wasted week.  Having a cold like this messes with the taste buds, so after a few days of not even considering having a cigar, I broke th

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e ice with something familiar to see where I stood. I grabbed a Nica Rustica El Brujito, which is a favorite. I know this cigar very well, so if my palate is skewed, I’ll know it smoking this cigar, and it was. It was still good, but tasted different. So I knew not to try anything new for a while, or at least to temper any expectations based on this information. This is important for you to know moving forward. 

 

Yesterday I took a drive up to Easton, PA to Famous Smoke Shop where Steve Saka was hosting the launch of his contribution to their 80th Anniversary, the Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust Famous Smoke Shop 80th Anniversary Edition. Steve had a blending seminar which was attended by 35 or 40 people, who had tobacco ad chavettas and actually rolled and tasted tobaccos with Steve’s instruction. I didn’t attend this event, but those who did raved about it and appeared to have enjoyed it and perhaps were a little overwhelmed! I’ve known Steve long enough to know that he can throw a LOT of information at you quickly, and that the 2 or 3 hour seminar could easily have been 8 if he’d have been allowed. Saka’s a shy guy, but if you can get him out of his shell, you can’t shut him up. I kid. I probably should have gotten a ticket and attended, but I didn’t, so I’

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m going on what I heard from others. To test my questionable palate, I lit up an Umbagog on my drive up, still a little off, but the Umbagog was still delicious.  I got there while the blending session was going on, and hung out with folks in the shop, including familiar faces such as Ali, our local EPC rep. Eventually the event ended and Dave Lafferty emerged and began selling the new Famous Smoke Shop Dunbarton To

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bacco & Trust 80th Anniversary Edition cigars. I did purchase said cigars, and eventually lit one up. This is an interesting cigar in the DT

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T line up. It’s box pressed, made at NACSA with a sun grown Nicaraguan H2000 wrapper and Nicaraguan binder and fillers. They only made 250 boxes of these, and there will be some available for sale on Famous’ website tomorrow (or maybe Tuesday, but don’t wait on account of me, look Monday). 

 

 

Full disclaimer (for the third time, in case you haven’t been paying attention), this cold has my palate screwed up, so my tasting notes on the DTT Famous 80th aren’t what they should be, but really, folks, when are they all that detailed?  I talked to Steve about the wrapper, which looked like a dark chocolate maduro in Famous’ press pictures. Good enough to eat, really, like a Godiva chocolate cigar. It turns out it’s not a maduro, but a H2000 wrapper. 20 years ago when this hybrid came out, it was bred to be disease resistant, but it was also flame retardant! Several brands of cigars were hyped up and basically destroyed because when they hit the market they wouldn’t burn. Tasted great, but you had to relight them ten or fifteen times. I think the lighter fuel industry had a stake in the development of the hybrid. After a while, the tobacco processors figured out how to handle this new leaf in the pre-industry processing, and now it burns right, and tastes great too. So Steve used it on this cigar. It started out on the mellow side for me, although some mentioned it was spicy. I did get a distinct cinnamon flavor on one draw about an inch in, but that was a one and done. For the fourth time, I’m working with a compromised palate here! Considering this was a c

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igar fresh from the box, which had been in unknown humidification conditions, it burned well, and drew perfectly. This is made in the same factory as my beloved Umbagog (and Mi Querida), by the way. The later half of the cigar was a build up in body, and strength, although I never found it to be more than medium strength. My second proviso is that I was smoking this very slowly too, as I was socializing. Overall, I really liked the cigar and look forward to smoking it on a healthy palate. I know Steve wouldn’t put his name on a cigar he wasn’t 100% satisfied with, especially if it was for something as important as a company’s 80th anniversary. It’s always great to see Steve, Cindy and Dave when they are around. 

 

That’s all for today. Once it clears up, I guess I’ll get back to trying to see if my palate is still out of whack. I suppose as long as my sinuses are still goofy, my tasters will still be off. Until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

 

   

 

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October 20, 2019 · 7:45 am

Villiger La Libertad: Old Versus New

As I was writing my last post, and as I alluded to as I wrapped that post up, I received word that my place of employment for the last year

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would be closing it’s doors and I would be, once again, embarking upon another career change.  This last year was a totally different job for me, and a whole new group of skills to add to my resume, so hopefully that opens some new doors for me in the near future. I am in a much better place psychologically this time than I was a year and a half ago when I found myself in a similar position. Today is my last day, so it’ll be a little rough, but a new beginning, again. I appreciate everyone’s positive thoughts.  

 

This week I received the rebanded Villiger La Libertad, so, naturally, I dug through the humidor and found some of the old La Libertad and figured it would be fun to smoke one of each to make a comparison. I’ll be honest, it’s not a fair comparison. Even if they were exactly the same, age would skew the results. The old La Libertad I smoked could conceivably be from 2011, I don’t keep records

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. Certainly the vintage of tobacco is different from the new one I received this week. To compare the one I smoked tonight to one I smoked in 2011 or ’12 would have required me to have smoked it under similar conditions, having eaten a similar meal, and having taken notes (which I don’t do). To really make a fair comparison woul

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d mean I’d need to have to have two cigars from the same box, and have a time machine to smoke them moments apart. it’s really not a possibility to make a fair comparison. That being said, I smoked the two cigars more or less together. I lit the new La Libertad first, and smoked about half of it before lighting the older one. the wrapper on the older one as a bit darker.  Both cigars had a similar flavor profile, which was some sweetness on a savory base. The older one was denser, richer, while the new one had a thinner body. Considering the new version had only spent a few days in the humidor, the uneven burn was unsurprising, versus the even burn on the more well seasoned and stable older edition. The specifics on these are as follows: Ecuador wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers, made in the Dominican Republic. Both cigars were the 5″ x 52 Robusto. I may not have smoked larger vitolas at the same time, there was a Flyers game on and I wanted to watch some of it on a screen larger than an iPad. I will say that the new band is much nicer than the old, and consistent with the branding on the rest of the Villiger line. Good cigar, well worth a try. 

 

I smoked the new CAO Amazon Series Orellana this week also, but will smoke another one before forming an opinion. It was a great cigar, don’t misunderstand, I just didn’t take time to pay attention to it much, and want to give it another try before writing something about it. I guess nothing jumped out at me, and I expected something

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unique. Again, more on this cigar another time. I didn’t really get the original Amazon Basin, but love the Fuma em Corda and Anaconda.

 

That’s all for today, which will be weird. Until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

 

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October 17, 2019 · 10:38 am

Vicarias Cigars: White, Red, Black and Blue

When I was in Miami last month I had the pleasure of meeting a gentleman named René Cardona, who happens to rep Tre J Cigars. His position within the cigar industry had nothing to do with my meeting with him, he is part of a group

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of folks I’m acquainted with through a Facebook group which is made of some folks I know personally, some long time readers as well as friends I haven’t met yet.  I was honored to meet René while I was there, and he ended up sending me a sampler of the Tre J range, which I smoked  through the Vicarias line this week. I still have to get to the Invictus, I just ran out of time. I’ll get to it in the next couple days.

 

I started out with the Vicarias White Connecticut Double Churchill. I know, I usually am compelled to start with the maduro, but it was early on a Monday that I had off, and we took a walk to the store and back so I had plenty of time to enjoy a cigar, so I grabbed the largest one of the bunch and it happened to be the Connecticut. Not a mistake at all, as this Conny had loads of flavor. It was sweet and creamy, and had a beautiful burn. We walked a mile or so to the local Target, Macha and I sat outside while my wife shopped, and then we walked home and it was a treat the whole time. I did allow it to go out about a half a mile from home (at about the two inch mark) so I could sit and finish it on the porch, as I’m fond of doing, and it continued to smoke well beyond the band without turning bitter. The size was 7″ x 52, and the blend was Ecuador Connecticut wrapper with Dominican binder and fillers. I found this to be quite a tasty cigar!

 

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Of course, I couldn’t stay away form the maduro for long, so next up was the Black Label Maduro. This is called a Robusto, and is 5½”x 50 with a Brazilian Arapiraca wrapper, Dominican Olor wrapper and Dominican and Honduran fillers. This cigar had a unique flavor that I really liked, and I’ve tasted before, but couldn’t quite place. It skirts the borders of sweet and savory, this flavor reminds me of a hard candy, the kind you ‘d find in grandma’s candy dish, but I don’t quite know what it is. It’s delicious though,  and smokes like a dream. I dig it big time. I can’t wait to try the even darker Red Label.

 

Tuesday I smoked the Red Label Cubra. This comes in one size, the 6″ x 54 Toro, and had a Brazilian Cubra wrapper, which is fermented to a very dark and oily maduro. The binder is a Nicaraguan Jalapa and the fillers are Dominican Piloto Cubano, Pennsylvanian Broadleaf and Ligero from Jalapa. Under normal circumstances I would have picked this up first, no doubt, but I showed some restraint, and selected cigars according to the time I had available.  This cigar was totally different from the Black Label, yet so loaded with dark, rich flavors of espresso and cocoa. It, along with the others, had perfect construction, and smoked very well and provided two hours of satisfaction. So far the Vicarias line is three for three.

 

Last up was the Vicarias Blue Label Corojo. This was also a Toro, listed at 6″ x 54, although it felt smaller than the Red Label for some reason. I didn’t measure it, as I lit it up fairly late, but I would have thought it was closer to 50 ring gauge. This one had an Ecuador Corojo wrapper, Dominican Olor binder and fillers from the DR, Honduras and Columbia. There’s a reason cigar makers make a range of cigars in their lines, not everyone is going to like every type of wrapper, every size, shape, or blend. I have a fairly broad spectrum of likes (or low standards, however you want to spin it), but the Blue Label Corojo was my least favorite in the bunch. There wasn’t a darned thing wrong with the cigar, it started a bit harsh (the foot measured a little dry with the Cigarmedics Humidimeter, more on that in another post, which might have contributed to that), and the flavors just weren’t what I prefer. Perhaps the Columbian tobacco doesn’t do it for me, not sure. That’s not to say it isn’t a great cigar fr someone else, just that out of the four, I’m preferring the other three over this one. As always, your mileage may vary.  

 

That’s all for today, I need to get ready for a challenging couple of days of work. Thanks so much to René for sharing these great cigars with me, I need to put some of the Black Labels in my humidor, the unique flavor of those is intriguing! Until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

 

 

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October 10, 2019 · 10:52 am

Black Works NBK Tasting at CigarCigars in Downingtown, PA

Last night I had the pleasure of being among the fifteen lucky attendees of a guided tasting of the Black Works Studio NBK, hosted by Mick Grant, the Northeast territory rep for Oveja Negra Brands. The venue was the CigarCigars Shop in Downingtown, PA. managed by my friend Kevin Sirman. This was a bit of a different experience, as it involved three puritos of the components of the blend of the NBK. The NBK is a box pressed Gran Corona, measuring 6″ x 46 with an Ecu

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ador Habano Oscuro wrapper and Nicaraguan Binder and filler. Mick had us light the NBK first, in my experience an unusual first step. He then passed o

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ut the first purito, the viso in the filler blend, which is from Jalapa. I admit, when I lit the cigar I had a thought that there was Jalapa tobacco in the blend. There’s a sweetness to the Jalapa tobacco that is distinctive, and smoking it separately makes it quite noticeable. Now we find the brilliance in smoking the finished cigar side by side with the individual leaf.  The second puro was the seco, which is from Ometepe.  I rather expected a bland, papery taste, but this Ometepe seco was very flavorful! There was a citrus or almost floral flavor. I found it drying, which Mick validated when he likened it to black tea, with the tannins being  drying on the palate. Finally, the last tobacco in the blend was the Esteli ligero. Of course, this tobacco was rich, dense, and full of flavor. I found that after smoking the ligero Purito for a bit, going back to the NBK took a little adjustment, as it seemed much lighter in comparison. Throughout the tasting, Mick answered questions about the cigar making and tobacco growing process, he was extremely knowledgeable and did a great job of leading this very educational experience. 

 

I’ve done a lot of these kind of events, and I always learn something from them and enjoy them a lot, and I thank Kevin, the manager at CigarCigars in Downingtown for giving me the heads up on this!  One of my favorite things to do though, is to bring a friend who may not have experienced this kind of thing before. My friend Greg, who I’ve known for 40+ years, loves cigars, and is a regular shopper at CigarCigars in Downingtown, but hadn’t had a chance to go into the lounge a

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nd have a smoke, let alone attend an event like this. Since we rarely get together, I invited him to this and enjoyed seeing how breaking down how a cigar is made, and what makes them taste the way they taste made sense to him. He seemed to get a lot out of the experience and I think it will enhance his appreciation of cigars. I encourage everyone to go to an event like this! Not everyone can go to a factory, this gets you a little closer to all the steps that goes into making a cigar. Finally, Thanks to Mick Grant for the great presentation. Mick just announced that he will be leaving Oveja Negra to move and pursue some personal family goals, and I wish him and his wife (who was also there last night) all the best and he will be missed! I’ve known Mick for a few years, with a couple of brands, and he’s the best.  

 

On a side note, I wandered into Nat Sherman‘s Townhouse on 42nd Street in Manhattan on Tuesday and had their Panamericana in the 4″ x 54 Robustico size. I wasn’t sure how much time I was going to have, and it worked out that that was exactly the right size for the time I had. It was a really great tasting cigar, and I had gone to the city without the expectation of having a cigar, so this visit was a bonus. It was also a $14 cigar, but it’s NYC, where you can walk down the street smoking a joint and it’s OK, but you’ll get

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all kinds of crap if you smoke a cigar. what a world…that’s all for today! Until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

 

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