News: Black Label Trading Company shipping Last Rites Viaticum

Here’s some news from BLTC. I have a short list of great c

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ith news about products, I figure you all don’t really care about personnel moves within companies or silly minutiae like that. BLTC makes some great cigars, and I like to share the news when it comes my way. I just wish I s

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moked more of them! Fortunately, the great brick and mortar stores in my area carry a selection of them, so I don;t have much f an excuse. I do try to grab some when I get a chance. This one sounds like another winner! 

 

Black Label Trading Company (BLTC) is shipping LAST RITES VIATICUM to s

elect retailers this week.  Viaticum is hand crafted at Fabrica Oveja Negra in Esteli, Nicaragua.

 

LAST RITES VIATICUM is a small batch release that was offered to BLTC retailers who attended IPCPR 2019.  

 

“Last Rites has always been a special cigar to me. To celebrate our sixth anniversary, I wanted to do a Special Edition of the Last Rites. The Viaticum is an evolution of the Last Rites blend. It uses most of the same tobaccos but in different proportions and primings. It’s rich, dark and elegant just like Nicaraguan tobacco. We also box pressed the cigar like the original 2013 release,” says James Brown, creator of BLTC and partner at Fabrica Oveja Negra.

 

Last Rites Viaticum

Country of Origin: Nicaragua

Wrapper: Ecuador Maduro

Binder: Honduras Habano

Filler: Nicaraguan / Honduran

Robusto – 5 x 54 Box Press (20 count)

MSRP $15.00

 

“Black Label Trading Company is redefining the standards for cigar making. With a less is more philosophy, Black Label Trading Co. creates hand crafted premium cigars of the utmost quality at their own factory in Nicaragua.” 

 

For more information please visit OvejaNegraCigars.com.  Consumers may search by zip code for retailers nearest them.

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Gran Habano, El Primer Mundo and Joya de Nicaragua Cigars

I’ve been all over the place this week with cigars, follow my Instagram

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, Twitter or Facebook to seem my dailies.  I had some cigars I really like trying to buoy my spirits, an EPC Inch Ringmaster, a Diesel Whiskey Row Cherry Cask and a CAO Flathead V19, all really great cigars! But I wanted to talk about three other cigars for some reason.  First of which was the Gran Habano Gran Reserva 2012 in the Gran Robusto size.  I reached for this cigar for a few reasons.  First it’s really a Toro, 6”x 54, and I like that size, I’m surprised it’s lasted this long in the humidor.  Second, I feel like Gran Habano is a bit underrated, I generally dig their cigars, and I don’t see them in my local stores.  Third, they have been a great supporter of my site, and I just received a little care package from them with some corona gorda sized 2012s and seeing those made me want to smoke one.  So this cigar has Nicaraguan wrapper and binder with Nicaraguan and Costa Rican fillers, and they use the top 10% of the leaf that they use in the Corojo No.5 blend and then age it for 7-8 years.  The cigar is pretty darned good, with some earthiness and cedar and a bit of spice. The aged tobaccos smooth this cigar out nicely and it burned perfectly. This was a delightful cigar.

 

A while ago I picked up a 10 pack of what I

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thought to be old El Primer Mundo La Hermandad Costa Fuerte Embajador Toros and put them in the humidor.  I hadn’t seen these for a long time and was a fan of a great many of the El Primer Mundo offerings. For those who don’t know, El Primer Mundo was the company founded by Sean Williams, who is now the Cohiba brand ambassador. I’ve known Sean a long time, he’s a cool dude. Anyway, these were made at the PDR factory in the DR, where Sean spent a stint as the director of sales. They have a Brazilian wrapper from Bahia, Dominican Olor binder, and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. I believe these to be older cigars, based on how they smoke, however, they seem to be still available in the wild (OK, one site in particular, easy to find, and very fairly priced). This confuses me a little because it’s rea

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lly a very good cigar. It’s got a nice coffee flavor with some sweetness and spice that I like. This is one you can’t smoke with the band on!

 

Finally, this is a cigar I’ve had in the humidor for a while, and I’ve been waiting for the right time to dig in. Between the weather, and having a cold, and general malaise, I haven’t felt like the time was right. The cigar in question, of course, is the Joya de Nicaragua Cinco Decadas Fundador. This is a new size this year, a box pressed 6″ x 54 Toro in addition to the 7″ x 50 El General and the also 6″ x 54 Diadema. I get out of typing up the wrapper, binder filler on these because they don’

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t disclose the ingredients. One would suspect it’s a Nicaraguan puro, considering it commemorates the company’s 50th anniversary, at least that would be the hope. I have found it curious that they didn’t promote that outright. Interestingly enough, this cigar is rather unlike their powerhouse blends like the Antaños, and is far more refined, it’s definitely a super-premium, luxury offering. When these came out last year I made the comparison the the Joya Silver, and confirmed that they share some lineage. The Fundador is a treat, it’s rich, it’s creamy, it has subtle espresso and spices which intensify toward the end. Another masterpiece from one of my favorite factories. Friggin yum. 

 

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

 

CigarCraig

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News: C.Gars Auctions Announces December 1st Winter Auction

Here’s some news from my friends at C.Gars Auctions. I remember back in 1997 when I got an e-mail from this dude in England asking me to have a look at his new website. We met in person in 1999 and we’ve been friends ever since, we even went to his wedding in 20

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06 (I was in a picture in the back of Cigar Aficionado with his friends that year). So if you’re in the market for rare and vintage cigars, this is the place you should be looking! 

 

C.Gars Auctions are holding the 4th auction of the year on Sunday 1st December

Lots will be live and bidding open online on the 24th November on the Cigar Auction website   http://www.onlinecigarauctions.com/   

This will be the 32nd cigar auction by C.Gars since the auction department was established in 2009

Over 400 Lots of Vintage, Mature, Pre Embargo, Davidoff, Dunhill, Limited Edition Havana cigars as well as aged Havanas from the 1960’s through to the 1990’s will be on offer on behalf of estates, investors and collectors. There will also be 70 Lots of splendid single malt whisky.

 

Auction Lots can be viewed and bid on online  http://www.onlinecigarauctions.com/index.php

Featured Lots include:

2 rarest cabinets of Trinidad and Cohiba autographed by Fidel Castro

 

36 Lots of Cuban Davidoff including Dom Perignon, No.1, No.2, 1000,2000,3000,4000, Tubos, Latour, Haut Brion, Margaux and Lafite.

 

Dunhill Estupendos and Cabinetta

 

La Flor de Cano Diademas

For any questions don’t hesitate to email Laura Graham and the auction team at auctions@cgarsltd.co.uk

Substantial interest is expected from overseas buyers is expected due to the continued weakness of the Pound Sterling currently as well as the continuing increased demand from China.

Lots are available for inspection at our London offices from the 24th November.

 

About C.Gars Ltd. 

C.Gars Ltd was launched in 1997 and is now one of the world’s largest specialist cigar merchants. This family business sells premium cigars and related goods from its website, 24/7, e

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very day of the year. C.Gars also owns and operates specialist cigar shops across the UK. https://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/our-shops/  as well as La Casa del Habano in Chester and Knutsford

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News: Ventura Cigar Company Will Keep Everyone Rolling at Big Smoke 2019

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entura Cigars, who is determined to show that they are here to stay despite the less than positive perception left by the recent downsizing (I know how that feels!) I’ve been a student of Michael’s on several occasions in the areas of rolling as well as blending and you can’t have a better instructor.  I imagine this  will be a real treat for the Big Smoke attendees.

Ventura Cigar Company to Hold Rolling Event with  Michael Giannini + Indiana Ortez at Big Smoke 2019.  Two industry stars share secrets of their craft as attendees learn to roll their own Psyko Seven Nicaragua Cigar.

 

Ventura Cigar Company will keep everyone rolling at Big Smoke 2019. Happening November 15 – November 17 at the Mirage in Las Vegas, Cigar Aficionado’s annual event is a popular draw for premium cigar enthusiasts. It offers attendees the opportunity to meet, greet, pose, and sample wares from top industry names. Ventura Cigar will be taking things to the next level, rolling PSyKo Seven Nicaragua cigars in their booth on Friday and Saturday, and offering a Rolling Seminar on Sunday, 11/17, where attendees will roll their own Archetype Axis Mundi cigar.

 

Michael Giannini, General Manager of Ventura Cigar Company, will be heading up the Ventura Cigar Company team and leading the rolling events.

 

“It’s great to be coming back to Big Smoke,” says Giannini. “Ventura Cigar is honored to be here, and excited to be rolling this weekend. The Cigar Aficionado team always puts on a solid event. And they ranked our Archetype Axis Mundi cigar as #13 of the top 25 for 2017, so we’re stoked to give Big Smoke attendees the opportunity to create their own on Sunday. We hope everyone also comes by the Ventura Cigar booth on Friday and Saturday to check out the PSyKo Seven Nicaragua cigars that we’ll be rolling with Indiana Ortez. It’s not often to get the chance to create with a cigar’s creator. It’s going to be such a good time.”

 

Indiana Ortez, rising industry star and the mastermind behind the PSyKo Seven Nicaragua blend will be rolling alongside Giannini

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at the Ventura Cigar Booth, and during Sunday’s Rolling Seminar. Hailing from the renowned Ortez tobacco family in Nicaragua, Indiana first collaborated with Ventura Cigar in 2018 on the Fathers, Friends, and Fire cigar, and has continued to add her expertise and youthful vibrance to their portfolio. The duo will share stories and behind-the-scenes info as they give Big Smoke attendees a hands-on rolling experience throughout the weekend.

 

“This won’t be as easy as people think,” says Ortez. “There’s a lot of factors that go into rolling, including patience, skill, and intuition- especially while using Connecticut Desflorada wrappers from a 2017 crop, like we’ll be doing for the PSyKo Seven Nicaragua cigars. But I know it’s going to be fun, and I’m looking forward to it!”

 



For tickets to Big Smoke 2019, visit thebigsmokes.com . For Big Smoke updates, more info on PSyKo Seven Nicaragua, and the other Ventura Cigar Company cigars, please visit venturacigar.com, or follow @venturacigar on Instagram. 

 

 

About Ventura Cigar Company

Ventura Cigar Company (VCC) is a unique cigar brand born in sunny Southern California that is on a mission to create memorable, complex cigar blends that excite the senses and reward discriminating palates. Their flagship Archetype, Case Study, Project805, and PSyKo SEVEN brands offer multiple award-winning blends that earned 90+ ratings in Cigar Aficionado, Cigar & Spirits, and Cigar Snob. And Archetype’s Axis Mundi won #13 Cigar of the Year for 2017 from Cigar Aficionado. Ventura Cigar Company also distributes Silver Dollar Nasal Snuff and the 4th Generation Tobacconist and Comoy’s of London lines of pipe tobacco products, extending its reach and tradition of offering top-quality tobacconist products. Pipes and blends under these brands are cultivated through generations of craftsmanship, making them longtime favorites of pipe tobacco enthusiasts. 

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I Goofed, I Didn’t Use My CigarMedics HumidiMeter!

Sunday my wife and I went into Philly and saw the Philly Pops presentation of the Beatles Abbey Road with a Beatles tribute group called Classical Mystery Tour. I can do without the Beatles tribute part, it would have been fine with the Pops orchestra and a band a good singers playing the material. It was still an entertaining show, I’ve seen a lot of Beatles tribute bands and always have trouble with ones where the Paul character can’t be bothered to

Too High!

learn to play lefty. Anyway, traffic sucked coming home, as per normal, and I was quite ready for a cigar, and grabbed a recently acquired RoMaCraft Aquitaine Knuckle Dragger. Here’s where I made a critical error. One of my pet peeves is when I light up a cigar that ends up being over-humidified and it doesn’t burn right, it smolders instead of burns and doesn’t give you a great experience. It’s so hard to tell when you light a cigar what it’s going to smoke like. This particular cigar I had hoped would be a sure thing, and it turned out that it just wasn’t ready, it hadn’t been in my humidor long enough, and the shop I bough it from was new to me and their humidor is obviously a little high. Here’s where the Cigarmedics HumidiMeter tool comes in! I’ve been using this for the last month. You might remember my video with Steve Saka from the 2017 trade show when I encountered him after the show floor closed for the day checking the next day’ sample stock with an industrial version of this sort of device. 

 

 

Just Right!

Steve’s device costs thousands of dollars, and reads absolute humidity, the Cigarmedics HumidiMeter converts the results to numbers which we, as regular cigar smokers, understand, relative humidity numbers. I went back and check the other Knuckle Dragger I bought at the same time and my suspicions were confirmed, the readings were higher than what I like to see, which have been in the low 60s at the foot, and the mid 60s at the head. I’ve been checking every cigar, and if the numbers are higher than the mid 60s at the head of the cigar I’m putting it back and picking another cigar. Cigars are funny, different tobacco’s hold moisture differently, Broadleaf holds a lot more moisture than Connecticut shade, and all of the filler tobaccos have different properties too. My larger humidor has variations from top to bottom too, so there are a lot of variables. With this device, I can save myself from not only wasting cigars, but wasting my time and pleasure! 

 

I can tell you that many of my friends and colleagues have reviewed this device. Most recently I would recommend the inaugural episode of the I’d Tap That Cigar Show from just this past week where they have discussed the device in detail. I tossed the idea of doing a video review of this, but it’s been done to death. I do agree with what everyone says about this, it’s one of the better new cigar tools I’ve gotten, and I’ll be honest, I was moments away from buying one of these when the folks at Cigarmedics reached out to me, it was in my shopping cart. Thank you to Tom at Cigarmedics for the information and support. 

 

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

 

CigarCraig

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