by | September 8, 2019 · 8:06 am

New La Gloria Cubana Hoyo and Partagas Cigars

Before i get started, don’t forget to go back to Wednesday’s post and enter the contest! It occurred to me (after I got a phone call from Danny Ditkowitch of La Sirena Cigars), that I should smoke a La Sirena Anniversario Especial cigar to celebrate, so I smoked another one of those this week and they are fantastic cigars! Check out my post from June here for the specifics about this outstanding cigar celebrating their tenth anniversary! La Sirena has been one of CigarCraig.com’s longest supporters and I’ve been a fan for even longer. 

 

I received some new samples from General Cigar Co. a few weeks ago, among them was the La Gloria Cubana Spanish Press. I was excited, as I always am, about a new La Gloria Cubana cigar, it’s a brand I have long been a fan of. Sure, there are some cigars in the line I can take or leave, but the majority of the line are cigars I like a lot. The Spanish press has a Nicaraguan Jalapa wrapper, a Mexican San Andrés binder and Brazilian Mata Fina, Dominican Olor , and Nicaraguan Jalapa. The vitola I smoked was the 5½” x 50 robusto. I’ll have to smoke more of these, as the initial cigar didn’t hit my palate with flavors I found particularly in line with my preferences. I’m not sure what it was, but there was a sourness that didn’t hit me right. I’m not one to give up, especially on a favorite brand, so I’ll give it another shot. 

 

Another old favorite brand is the Hoyo de Monterrey, and they came out with a new cigar this year in the Hoyo La Amistad Dark Sumatra. There has been a Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra made in Honduras around for some time, but this new one is made in Nicaragua by A.J. Fernandez, using the same blend as the original. It has an Ecuador Sumatra wrapper, a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper and Honduran, Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers. This sample was the Noche size, measu

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ring 6″ x 52, my favorite size. This cigar started out with a powerful punch! Strong pepper from the get-go, I almost thought it was too strong but I like nice strong cigar followed along on the ride. It mellowed out a little in the middle, continuing to have good, strong flavors of rich, dark, earthy flavors. Near the end the pepper returned and it got stronger again and finished off with as much oomph as it started with. Like the other three cigars in the La Amistad line, I really liked this Dark Sumatra.

 

Finally, last night I lit up a Partagas Decadas Limited Reserve 2019.  I used to love these when they had the green band. This version is still in the 5 ½” x 49 size, which is a very nice size, and are packaged in a glass tube (my samples were cellophaned). The new band is white, and has a “10” on in, which seemed appropriate to celebrate the site’s 10th anniversary. The ten represents the age of the Cameroon wrapper leaf on this cigar, Partagas is well known for using Cameroon wrappers. For the binder they use the Honduran San Augustine tobacco that General has been using in a great many cigars recently. The filler is Piloto Cubano fro the DR and Ometepe from Nicaragua. Like I said, I always enjoyed smoking the Limited Reserves, and this cigar was no different. It was a smooth smoke, with the subtle nutty flavor from the aged Cameroon wrapper. I have a pretty good assortment of LE Partagas cigars in the humidor, many are good but not

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remarkable. These join the Limited Reserves in the remarkable category for me, I like them. 

 

That”s all for today. Check back Wednesday to see who wins the anniversary contest, then I’m off to Miami for a vacation.  Until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig  

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by | September 4, 2019 · 10:31 am

CigarCraig.com Tenth Anniversary Contest

Since last week marked the tenth anniversary of the launch of CigarCraig.com, I figured it would be appropriate to mark the occasion by giving away some cigars from some of the supporters who have helped me along in the journey over the last few years. But before we get to that, here’s a little bit of the CigarCraig.com backstory for those who don’t know it.  In 1996 I developed a passion for premium cigars and ran across a usenet group that talked about such things, alt.smokers.cigars. By 2006 I had grown weary of participating in that group, and the WWW had grown to more advanced avenues of discourse such as websites and forums and such. I never really got into forums, but in 2009, sensing my need to have an outlet to drone on about cigars, my wife set me up with the CigarCraig.com domain for my 46th birthday, and the rest

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is history. Now, ten years later, I still drown on about cigars, and, oddly, people read my dron

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ing. I’ve attended many IPCPR shows, a bunch of large and small events, and made a great many wonderful friends who I wouldn’t have met otherwise. My thanks goes to you, my readers, those who chose to waste your valuable time reading my nonsense! 

 

So, I’ll have another giveaway! I’ve assembled an assortment of cigars from my humidor representing some of my cigar advertisers. I might decide on two winners, in which case I’ll split up the cigars equitably and both winners will get an equally cool assortment!

Pictured is an idea of the cigars that will be included, more might be added! I’ll update on Sunday! So leave a comment on this post to enter! Usual rules apply, legal age, one entry per, yada, yada. I’ll select a winner, or winners, next Wednesday (right before leaving for Miami!)  Thanks to everyone who’s supported CigarCraig.com over the last 10 years! 

 

That’s all for today, 

 

CigarCraig

 

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by | September 1, 2019 · 8:04 am

CAO Flathead V19, Acid 20 and Coyaba Natural Cigars and CigarCraig’s 10th Anniversary

You may recall that last Wednesday I had typed a brilliant post and lost it.  I posted an abbreviated, yet almost as brilliant post, but I wanted to try to recap two of the cigars that I had written about.  The first of which was the new CAO Flathead Camshaft V19, the 5½” x 50 line extension to the Flathead line. The Flathead line is one of my favorites in the CAO range. I enjoy all of them, although

the largest of them is the least smoked just because the 70 ring gauge is  just too large, but the square press does make it a little more manageable. The flat cap gives me a chance to use my favorite Adorini punch, which has two sides, one of which is 13mm, which makes a nice, large opening in the cap of the 50 ring V19. The V19 has a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, a Connecticut Habano binder and Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers, making for a full-bodied, delicious cigar. They are only making a limited number of these, but they sure are tasty, bolder than the regular line. Like I said, I’m a fan of the whole line, and they all are a little different, but the V19 might be my favorite so far. 

 

The ACID 20 started hitting stores this week, so I figured I better smoke the sample that Alex, my local Drew Estate rep, gave me a few weeks ago before it wasn’t special any more! I’ve noted before that my ACID experiences have been limited, to the point where I could list the occasions I smoked ACID cigars off the top of my head. After really enjoying the new ACID Kuba Arte, I was less skeptical about smoking this one. I’m told that the infusion is the same as the ACID 5, which was the 5th anniversary cigar. Of course, this meant nothing to me, having never smoked the ACID 5. The ACID 20 has a San Andrès wrapper, Indonesian binder and Nicaraguan fillers, and is box pressed with a flat cap, which is sweetened.  I used the 9mm side of the Adorini punch on this one, even though it’s 5″ x 52. I’m not sure why I used the smaller punch, but it seemed like the right thing to do. Fun fact, ACID is an acronym for (of?) Arielle Chester Industrial Design, artist Scott Chester’s company’s name. He’s the guy on the motorcycle on the ACID logo, and a super-cool dude. Anyway, I didn’t taste any infusion, much like the Kuba Arte, it was a darned good tasting San Andrès wrapped cigar, with dark espresso flavors and rich cocoa.  A throughly enjoyable cigar. I’m starting to worry about myself, enjoying ACID cigars, I’m going to have to smoke a regular Kuba Kuba again one of these days to see if I find it as repulsive as I did the first time I tried one long ago and needed to scrape my tongue afterwards…

 

Thursday was my 56th birthday, and that means it was the 10th anniv

ersary of CigarCraig.com! It was on August 29th, 2009 that my wife gave me the domain name for my birthday and started me down this road. Perhaps this calls for a celebratory contest, I’ll have to think about it over the next few days, any objections can be noted in the comments!  I did manage to smoke a few cigars Thursday to celebrate, I started with a Southern Draw Rose of Sharon Lancero, spent some family time, then enjoyed a Serie Unico UF-13 that was from a box I received for me 50th birthday, then wrapped up the day with a Cornelius and Anthony Señor Esugars. It was a good day. 

 

Last night I smoked a cigar that was sent to me to be my “white” cigar for Diner en Blanc, however, the US Mail didn’t cooperate, and I didn’t receive the cigar until the Monday following the event. I spoke to Juan Nuñez briefly on the phone a week before the event, and he told me a little bit about his Coyaba White Label, or Natural cigar, although I should have gotten more information. From what I can gather, the cigar he sent was the Toro Gordo, a 6½” x 60 with an Ecuador Connecticut wrapper. I went back to my ScrewPop Magpulse cutter for this one. I really like this cutter. I also have gone back to the Colibri Daytona lighter, which had given me some trouble until I threatened to send it back, and decided to give it a good blowing out with compressed air which got it right as rain again. It’s back to being one of my favorites again. Anyway, this Coyaba cigar was a tasty smoke, it was on the mild side, with some nice flavors. It was creamy and nutty with a little floral note, and was a pleasant smoke. I hope I run across these when I visit Miami in a few weeks, maybe I can even meet up with Juan. The Coyaba Band is beautiful, a great improvement over what I remember the old band (which was nice). 

 

That’s plenty for today. It’s Labor Day weekend, and I’m working again. It beats not working, been there, done, that.  Enjoy yourselves, have some great cigars, and until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

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by | August 28, 2019 · 10:59 am

A Sin Compromiso Cigar with a Broadleaf Wrapper

I had a great three paragraph post written about this and some other cigars and it disappeared into the WordPress et

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her someplace, so I’m trying to quickly re-write a piece of it before heading off to work. The rest will have to wait! Monday I smoked a Sin Compromiso with a Broadleaf wrapper that I got at the Famous Smokeshop event I attended a few months back. I decided on this cigar on Monday for a few reasons. First, 2 Guys Cigars released the second (and probably last) round of the Mi Querida Firecrackers for sale. These are great little cigars. The second reason was to celebrate Saka’s birthday, because he doesn’t celebrate it himself. He’s told me that he thinks celebrating birthdays is for ten year o

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lains the pink wrapping paper with the stuffed My Little Kitty on the present he gave me for my 50th birthday years ago. For the record, I have two years on him. If he’s anything like me, having a late August birthday is a bummer because it signals the end of summer, and I always get a little down this time of year. I don’t look forward to my birthday much either. Any way, I smoked the cigar, which is probably more of a unicorn than his Unicorn is, and I really enjoyed it. I doubt that it will become a reality, though, given the shortage of broadleaf,

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and my impression that the broadleaf wrapper seemed to dominate the smokiness that I think makes

the Sin Compromiso Special. Not that my palate is worth anything, and this might be next year’s big release, what do I know? Anyway, I thought it was a brilliant cigar and it suited my tastes perfectly, but all I require is strong espresso notes and good quality tobacco and I’m a happy camper. This was a winner and I’ll likely never smoke another one like it! Happy Birthday Steve!

 

The post I wrote that vanished also included the ACID 20, I’ll circle back to that later as I’m short of time now, but look for tho

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se on tobacconist’s shelves soon. Until the next time,

 

CigarCraig

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by | August 25, 2019 · 4:03 pm

Diner en Blanc Philly, a Fratello Bianco II and a White Chapel Cigar

Thursday evening was the Philadelphia Dîner en Blanc, a large picnic at a location that’s kept secret until the last minute. Everyone wears white, brings tables and chairs and food and it’s all (normally) orchestrated and timed and is a big party for several thousand people. This was my third time going to this event, and, naturally, I select white themed cigars for the occasion. I was lazy this time around, although I had some great suggestions and ideas, I didn’t get a chance to travel to the shops I wanted to find the selections, so I defaulted to some old stand bys. It’s being well documented in the Dîner en Blanc community that this year’s event was less of a success than in the past. it was held at Philadelphia’s Boathouse Row, an

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d the logistics of getting 6000 people into a long, thin area wasn’t well thought through. Our group was among the last to arrive at the event after waiting in the meeting area for over two hours (which was closest to the site), setting up and eating our dinner two hours after the event started, and an hour or so before the rain started. A thunderstorm rolled in and cut the event short. It was also impossible to get transportation back to our parking afterwards the way they had the roads blocked off. So it was less fun than years past, and probably a third of the attendees have a good reason to feel cheated out of a good time. On the plus side, I was able to freely wander the event smoking a Fratello Bianco II toro (with a pocket full of Macanudo Inspirado Whites. As always, the Fratello Bianco was outstanding. Of course, the Fratello Bianco has a San Andrès wrapper, Dominican binder and and Nicaraguan and Peruvian fillers and is made at the Joya de Nicaragua factory. Considering the event, I was able to walk around without getting a sideways glance. Of course, there wasn’t a lot of opportunities to take pictures. I had a better picture but I looked grumpy in it, you may have seen it on Facebook and

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Instagram. At least in this one I’m smiling. I did my bes

t to enjoy the time I was there and maintain an “it is what it is” attitude. I don’t get many chances to wear my white Guayaber

a! OF course, my wife looked awesome!

 

Before we left I smoked an old White Chapel Robusto from a company called Censored Genius based around Allentown, PA. They used to be called Evil Genius, but had a few trademark disputes, so they finally just changed the name to Censored Genius. I just searched for their website and it looks like the domain expired last month, so maybe they aren’t even in business anymore. This cigar was made at La Aurora in the DR, and despite having a white band, is a powerhouse of a cigar. Looking back at some old notes it appears to have a Dominican Habano wrapper and is heavy on ligero in the fillers, with one of them being Pennsylvania ligero.  This had ben in my humidor for nearing 5 years, and it was still pretty powerful, with a strong pepper component. If you come across these, and I doubt you will, consider snagging some.

 

It’s been a busy week, and I’m late getting this post out, and it’s short. I’ll try to get some new cigars smoked for a mid-week post. Until then,

 

CigarCraig

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