by | November 27, 2018 · 12:04 pm

News: Mombacho to Ship Casa Favilli Cigars to U.S and Swiss Retailers

Here’s some Tuesday news from Mombacho Cigars.  That reminds me, I’m out of their cigars, gotta resupply. I have a cold right now, and work’d been keeping me busy, so I haven’t been able to get to a local shop that carries them. I know my buddy Kosta at

MOMBACHO CIGARS S.A. TO SHIP CASA FAVILLI

The latest release from Mombacho Cigars S.A. is the first cigar to use a Nicaraguan Broadleaf wrapper.

Mombacho Cigars S.A. announced today that it would begin shipping a limited Pre-Release of Casa Favilli to retailers in the US and Switzerland.

“Casa Favilli is very special to me,” said Claudio Sgroi, President and Master Blender of Mombacho Cigars. “This cigar is the first ever Nicaraguan Broadleaf in the industry. I am proud to say we have done something truly unique.”

Casa Favilli is the third core line cigar in the Mombacho Cigars portfolio and continues the company’s tradition of producing 100% Nicaraguan puros. The blend consists of a Nicaraguan Broadleaf wrapper with binder and filler tobaccos from Jalapa and Condega. The cigar is named in honor of the Mombacho Cigars factory in Granada, Nicaragua.

“This is a unique cigar,” said Robert Rasmussen, Brand Manager of Mombacho Cigars. “Casa Favilli features a wrapper that has never been used before. It is on the full side of the strength spectrum and, in true Mombacho fashion, is packed with flavor.”

Casa Favilli will be available in 12-count boxes and in three sizes:
Robusto – 5 x 50 – MSRP $10.95
Toro – 6 x 52 – MSRP $11.95
Torpedo – 5 ½ x 52 – MSRP $12.95

The initial pre-release of Casa Favilli will consist of approximately 150 boxes of each vitola and will ship to retailers during the first week of December. The cigar will be in regular production starting in 2019.

ABOUT MOMBACHO CIGARS
Mombacho Cigars S.A. is a Canadian owned company established in 2006 that entered the US market in 2013. The international interest in Mombacho has grown rapidly and Mombacho cigars are now available in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and Trinidad and Tobago. Mombacho produces all of its products at its factory in Granada, Casa Favilli, where over 30 members of the Mombacho Family work. For more information contact Robert Rasmussen, Brand Manager of Mombacho Cigars, at rob@mombachocigars.com.  mombachocigars.com | f/t/i: @MombachoCigars

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by | November 25, 2018 · 10:39 am

Thanksgiving Week Cigars, Partagas, Aladino, Ashton, etc.

It was a long week with a holiday that included traveling and working Black Friday for the first time in 29 years (I might have worked one in there somewhere, but it was a rare occasion)! It was also unseasonably cold this week, so between that and my schedule, I didn’t take my usual evening walks and opted to relax on the porch after a long day instead. So I don’t have anything really new to report on this week. The cigars I smoked were all cigars I’ve enjoyed in the past. There was an Umbagog from Dunbarton Tobacco ad Trust in the mix, a great smoke which I adore. This is on my “goto” list with the likes of the Nica Rustica and Cornelius & Anthony Señor Esugars when I want cigar perfection. I had a La Gloria Coleccoin Reserva in there too, another recent favorite.

This time I went big with the Presidente, despite the cold, the porch was tolerable and the cigar was fantastic.

 

I try to smoke something special on holidays, so when we finally got home on Thanksgiving after spending a nice day in New Jersey with family, I lit up an Ashton VSG Belicoso No.1 from a box I’ve had for a year and half or more. The Belicoso No.1 is 5¼ x 52 and is wrapped in a Sumatra wrapper grown on a private estate in Ecuador, which is ironic considering Ecuador is typically always cloud-covered, at least where the Ecuador Connecticut tobacco is grown is, yet it’s called Virgin Sun Grown. It’s a Dominican cigar, made by Fuente, but it’s not a mild cigar by any stretch of the imagination, it’s full flavored and on the high side of medium. This like has been around since 1999, and is another one of those cla

ssic cigars that has stood the test of time, and I think should be a staple in every humidor.

 

Friday I got home from the Black Friday craziness and had an Aladino Maduro Toro from JRE Tobacco.  This is a box pressed 6″ x 50 cigar that was originally exclusive to 2 Guys Smoke Shop, I assume it’s in wider distribution now. Side note, it was a year ago today that my wife, Macha and I went up to 2 Guys in Salem, NH and witnessed the 400th episode of The Cigar Authority. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year!  Anyway, this Aladina Maduro is less “maduro” tasting than I expected or remembered from smoking it before, which is OK, because it’s still very good. It harkens back to the old Camacho Corojos from years ago a little, as it is all Corojo with a San Andrés wrapper. It really was an enjoyable cigar, although I was expecting it to be more along the lines of what one expects from a San Andrés wrapped cigar. This was from the original release, I ordered a couple of each of the toro and lancero to try when they came out, I think I have a lancero left still. That will have to wait until warmer weather, I avoid lanceros in the colder months usually.

 

Last night I got home and just had it in my head that I wanted to smoke a Partagas Legend for some reason. I happened to have the 6¼” x 54 Toro Leyenda on hand, which is my preferred size anyway, although a robusto would have been fine (it doesn’t come in a robusto). This cigar has a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, the Honduran Olancho San Augustine Binder that General uses on a lot of cigars lately (they, no doubt, bought the entire crop and had a great yield a few years back! it seems to show up in just about every new cigar description), and Dominican fillers. I sat down and lit this up on the porch with the Flyers game on the iPad, which got turned off after the first period because it was so bad, and threatened to ruin the great cigar. You know how José Blanco says that sitting next to an Asshole will ruin a great cigar?  well, watching a bad hockey game can do it too. I really like this cigar, although it’s not necessarily a cheap date at around $14 each, but still a very good cigar.

 

That’s about all for today, I hope everyone had a safe and satisfying Thanksgiving if you are in the US and celebrate such things! Until the next time,

 

CigarCraig

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by | November 19, 2018 · 7:25 am

Accessory Review: Govee WiFi Smart Hygrometer/Thermometer

In August I reviewed the Govee Bluetooth Smart Hygrometer/Thermometer, which is a handy item, but I really wanted more from it. Recently the WiFi version has become available, so I jumped on it and picked one up to test out side by side with the Bluetooth version. With the bluetooth version, I found that I had to be in the same room as the unit, which is fine if I wanted to know the conditions inside a given humidor without opening it up and looking in, or get alerts if things are going out of whack. This is all well and good, and the historical information that the unit logs is nice to have

also. I did wish for a  longer range solution, then along comes the WiFi version. The only difference is a small WiFi symbol in the lcd screen, as noted in the picture. The free app is the cool part, and I can only speak to the iOS version, but I was able to add both u

nits, and I have no reason to believe that there’s no reasonable limit to the number of units you could add, assuming you

name them differently in the set up.

I did fumble a bit with the setup directions, they weren’t quite as concise as they could have been. I had to read through the Q&A to find the directions to connect to my home WiFi, but once I did find it, it couldn’t have been easier. I would suggest that the company might put documentation on their website as a resource as well as I actually looked there before reading further into the printed manual.  If the documentation is the only downside I’m not going to complain, I

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a pain in the ass (PITA) to set up, which is a shame, because that particular item would have been far more useful than just monitoring. I digress.

Some technical details:

For ease of use, this gets a thumbs up, and the unit appears to be reasonably accurate, compared to both its Bluetooth sibling and other digital hygrometers. Also, the cigars in the humidors that the hygrometers are in smoke fine, the ultimate test, in my opinion. As far as price goes, the WiFi version is almost twice the price of the Bluetooth version, which is a bit steep, but the functionality is worth the extra cash. Are there cheaper items on the market that do the same thing? Sure there are. Maybe they don’t provide the data logging that these units do, nor do they have a family of other home automation products that work with the same app like lighting and doorbells and other fun stuff if you’re into that.

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

CigarCraig

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by | November 18, 2018 · 11:18 am

La Palina, BG Meyer and 1881 Perique Cigars

I was just grabbing random cigars this week, although a bit of a theme seemed to develop.  I had a few cigars with what I would call glassine paper decorative wrapping, and two with names referencing the 1880s. Strictly coincidence, But one of those things I noticed as I went back over the weeks smokes. As I mentioned in Friday’s post highlighting the latest podcast episode, I had the pleasure of meeting up with the professor, José Blanco at Goose’s Montecristo Lounge in Limerick, PA, and smoked  an EP Carillo Seleccion Oscuro Especial No. 6.  The cigar was delicious, and the company was  exceptional as usual. It also snowed this week, too early in my opinion!  We’ve had winter weather in autumn, I have the porch winterized, but I can’t get my propane heaters working, so I have to figure out how to get at least one of those working. I miss summer!  Anyway, allow me to highlight a couple of cigars I smoked this week.

 

Last year I really enjoyed the La Palina El Año 1896 Oscuro.  Since I last smoke this cigar in 2017 they have moved the production from PDR in the Dominican Republic to Placencia’s factory in Honduras. I believe the original had a San Andrés wrapper and Dominican binder and filler, while the new version has a Costa Rican Oscuro wrapper, Dominican binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. It’s box pressed, and the cigar I smoked, and I smoked two this week, was a 5″ x 50 (maybe 52, hard to tell with a box press) Robusto. Basically this is a different cigar from the original El Año 1896 Oscuro from last year (and allegedly the 120 Anniversary I smoked a week or two ago!) I enjoyed it, it was a very good cigar in its own right, but in my mind I wanted to compare it to the cigar I smoked previously in the same bands and presentation and it wasn’t the same to my recollection, and how could it be? I don’t want to be negative, because this version of the El Año 1896 Oscuro is an exceptional cigar, if you never smoked the former version, you are going to be very happy smoking this cigar. Either way, you can ‘t go wrong with this cigar!

 

The other cigar with the glassine paper wrap that happened to smoke this week was a BG Meyer Standard Issue Toro.  This was a Camacho “Board of the Bold” line,

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which was something Davidoff had going with brand ambassadors Mike Ditka, Matt Booth and Rob Weiss, the last of which headed the BG Meyer line. Rob Weiss was the guy behind the HBO show Entourage. There’s some debate over whether this line is even available anymore or not, I tend to believe it’s discontinued,  I’m sure there are still cigars floating around in the wild. This cigar was probably an IPCPR sample from a few years back, and I did smoke this back in 2015 and liked it. This one burned very well, had a nice, savory flavor and was quite enjoyable. I’d say this aged well, if you can find these around snatch them up and smoke them, even better if you find a close out deal. Everything I see points to this being a Nicaraguan Puro made in Honduras.

 

Friday night I got home from work late and went looking for a short smoke, and spied a short, squat torpedo from Tabacalera Incorporada in the Philippines, an 1881 Perique Torpedito. The 1881 Perique line is really interesting, it uses Philippine and Louisiana Perique to

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bacco and is rolled in their factory in Manila, not the usual combination one finds in the premium cigar market. Perique is generally used in pipe tobacco, and it’s usually on the strong side by itself. so the combination of the Filipino tobacco and the Perique throws a bunch of red flags for me, but in the case of the 1881 Perique, it comes together to make a really tasty cigar!  Usually when I have a cigar this late, I’m up all night having weird dreams, this time wasn’t the case for whatever reason. I couldn’t find a size listed, but it was probably a 4″ x 54ish torpedo and burned perfectly, and had only spend maybe two hears in the humidor, enough to be properly rested, but not enough that I would consider it “aged”.  It was smooth, had a savoryness, with a hint of a sweetness, and some spice from the Perique. I have some of the Maduro and “Bold” floating around that I need to revisit now that smoking this little Torpedito.  I’m not sure how widely these are distributed in the US, I know that Daughters and Ryan is the distributor, and I also know that Tabacalera sells them directly on their website.  If you are in the mood for something different and interesting, these are worth a try, don’t be scared off by the perique or  Filipino tobaccos, they work well together! Don’t forget to keep an eye on CigarProp.com and Amazon for the new, super-cool CigarProp ashtrays when they become available (as seen in the picture)!

 

That’s all for today, it’s a day off and the end of the week starts the busy season!  I need to try to line up some goodies to give away for the holidays! Any manufacturers, brand owners or retailers can reach out to me at craig@cigarcraig.com if you’d like to get in on CigarCraig’s annual holiday giveaways! They always generate a lot of interest!  I know the FDA doesn’t allow companies to give away cigars, but I’ve been known to give away my own cigars from time to time! I have workarounds!  Anyway, until the next time,

 

CigarCraig

 

 

 

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by | November 16, 2018 · 8:53 am

Podcast: Episode 11: A Chat with José Blanco at Goose’s

This week I ran into my friend José Blanco at Goose’s Montecristo Lounge in Limerick, PA one morning and smoked an EP Carillo Seleccion Oscuro Especial No. 6 while talked about the newest cigars and Jose’s blending events and other stuff. We could have talked for hours, but I like to keep things short and sweet!



I’ve said it many times before, if you get the chance to go to one of José’s tasting events, do it, it’s a great education and very entertaining! Tell José I said hello!

 

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

 

CigarCraig

 

 

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