by | December 15, 2014 · 6:35 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2014 Day 5: Joya de Nicaragua

 Welcome back for yet another day of cigar giveaways!  I hope you aren’t tired of this yet! There’s a ton more to come.  I would like to have smoked an Arandoza Blue Label yesterday

, but I’m out, and my plan to run to the one of the only stores that have them 9 miles away fell through as I got the lights up on the house and then my daughter and he kids came over. Another time, I suppose. I have some bad news for Lloyd Ladrillono, he’s no longer eligible to win anything in the 12SDoCG because he winner of the box of Arandoza Blue Label cigars!  Please confirm your address so I can try to get these shipped out to you next weekend!  Thank you to Robert Arango at Arandoza Cigars for providing yesterday’s gift!

 

 

Joya de Nicaragua

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The present for Day 5 is from Joya de Nicaragua, the oldest cigar factory in Nicaragua.  This year they came out with the Joya Red, a medium bodied cigar that’s loaded with flavor. I’ve had the pleasure of smokeing quite a few of these since last June, and they are really quite good. Today’s present is a box of 20 Joya Red Cañonazo (5½ x 54).  Juan Mar

tinez, the President of Joya de Nicaragua, was the mastermind behind asking for consumer feedback in this contest.  He would like to know two things:  in one sentence tell us what comes to mind when you think of Joya de Nicaragua and  what comes to mind when you think of Nicaraguan Tobacco. Let’s see what you can come up with!  Thank you to Juan at Joya de Nicaragua and John Brook at Drew Estate (the US distributor of JdN) for making today’s present possible!

 

 

Rules

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on that day’s post and if you like, in one sentence tell us what comes to mind when you think of Joya de Nicaragua and  what comes to mind when you think of Nicaraguan Tobacco.  It’s not a condition to win, but I’d like for the folks who make this all possible to come

away with some consumer feedback.  Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!

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Until tomorrow,

 

CigarCraig

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by | December 14, 2014 · 6:46 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2014 Day 4: Arandoza Cigars

I try, when I can, to smoke the cigar that’s in the giveaway if I have one, and yesterday I found both the Dunkel and the Bunker Buster in the humidor (don’t worry, I’m not digging into th

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e presents!).  I really wanted to smoke the Dunkel, but I couldn’t bring myself to smoke an Oktoberfest cigar in December.  I suppose I’ll have to wait until September now to fire that one up! I did smoke my last 601 La Bomba Bunker Buster and it was awesome!  I don’t find these as strong as the regular La Bomba line, which i love, but boy was it good.  I’m certain that the winner of yesterday’s goodies is going to be thrilled with both.  Today’s winner comes from the group known as “Ward B” in Facebook and Cigarworld circles, and is a longtime reade. The winner of the Smoke Inn/Kiss My Ash Radio present is TriMarkC!  Please send your  current coordinates so I can get this stuff to you!  Happy Sunday, let’s get to Day 4!

 

Arandoza Cigars

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Arandoza Cigars is a reasonably new brand that’s being made at Eric Espinoza’s La Zona factory in Esteli, Nicaragua. The Arandoza Blue Label Toro (box of 20) is a Nicaraguan puro with a Nicaraguan Habano wrapper and is a very nice smoke. Robert Arango takes pride in being a family owned company, La Zona is a hot factory, and the Arandoza line has been among my favorite new cigars over the past year or so. One of you is in for a treat.

 

Rules

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on that day’s post and if you like, in one sentence

tell us what comes to mind when you think of Arandoza Cigars.  It’s not a condition to win, but I’d like for the folks who make this all possible to

come away with some consumer feedback.  Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!

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Until tomorrow,

 

CigarCraig

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by | December 13, 2014 · 6:46 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2014 Day 3: Smoke Inn

Day 2 is in the books and we are going to keep forging ahead!  I’m up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday and can’t think of anything to write, so the winner of the Drew Estate present is Matt Henrich! Many thanks again to all the folks at Drew Estate for providing these gifts!

 

 

Smoke Inn/Kiss My Ash Radio

 

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Day 3 brings us to the fine folks at Smoke Inn and Kiss My Ash Radio.  Since today is Saturday, if you are reading this early enough, you can tune into Kiss My Ash radio and listen live at KissMyAshRadio.com from 10am to noon Eastern Standard Time, or download the podcast and listen whenever you want. Abe at Smoke Inn has provided two boxes from his Microblend series, the 601 La Bomba Bunker Buster, a 5½ x 56 box pressed Figurado (box of ten) and the Quesada Oktoberfest Dunkel, which is a Broadleaf wrapped version of the Oktoberfest line (box of 15).  These are both delicious, both limited production and will look great sitting on the rim of the huge KMA Ceramic Ashtray. A KMA cap rounds out today’s present.  Could I have split this up into two spectacular days? Sure, but whats the fun in that? Thanks to Abe and his gang at Smoke Inn and Kiss My Ash Radio!

 

Rules

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on that day’s post and if you like, in one sentence tell us what comes to mind when you think of Smoke Inn.  It’s not a condition to win, but I’d like for the folks who make this all possible to come away with some consumer feedback.  Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!

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CigarCraig

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by | December 12, 2014 · 6:29 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2014 Day 2: Drew Estate

Once again, we are off to a rousing start!  The first day is always the biggest challenge, having a lot of comments to authorize and all. It’s so much fun to read the comments, thank you all for taking the time to write a line about the featured vendor.  I smoked an East India Trading Co. Classic Cigar last night and it was pretty darned good (not from the box). As always, I went to the random number generator at Random.org it gave me number 67, which I calculate to be Adam Brownbridge.  Please send me your address so I can pack up all this great stuff from Gurkha (I hope it’s local so I can deliver it and save the postage!).  Thanks again to Bianca at Gurkha for sending along all these goodies!  Without further ado, let’s get day 2 underway!

 

 

 

Drew Estate

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It’s day 2 and we have some great presents from my friends at Drew Estate.  There’s a Liga cap, a grey camo Drew Estate Army cap, a rare Serie Unico cigar cutter and a bundle of ten MUWAT Kentucky Fire Cured Kyotos (5½ x 34).  Thanks to John Brooke, Jonathan Drew and everyone at Drew Estate for putting these goodies under the tree today!

Rules

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on that day’s post and if you like, in one sentence tell us what comes to mind when you think of Drew Estate.  It’s not a condition to win, but I’d like for the folks who make this all possible to come away with some consumer feedback.  Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!

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CigarCraig

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by | December 11, 2014 · 6:27 am

CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways 2014 Day 1: Gurkha

CC_Logo_xmas_sWelcome to day 1 of the 2014 CigarCraig’s 12 Spectacular Days of Cigar Giveaways! For the fourth year in a row it’s time for me to put on my Santa hat and begin the marathon of gift giving. Here are the official rules, same as  always:  Every day for the next twelve days I’ll post a new giveaway and announce the winner of the previous day’s present. All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on that day’s post and if you like, in one sentence tell us what comes to mind when you think of: <that day’s vendor>.  It’s not a condition to win, but I’d l

ike for the folks who make this all possible to come away with some consumer feedback.  Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word! Once you win, you are no longer eligible to win again. I’ll ship out the presents as soon as I can, please recognize that this is a busy time of year! I will make every effort to get everything shipped by the last week in December.  Last year was amazing, and I think this year will be even better!  Now, on with the show!

 

 

Gurkha Cigars/East India Trading Co.

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We are starting things off BIG with this fantastic present from the folks at Gurkha!  We have a large metal poster, a Gurkha Tactical Field Knife, a Baracuda dual flame lighter, a cool Gurkha backpack (that comes in it’s own bag!) and as if that wasn’t enough, a box of East India Trading Co. Clasisic Cigar Figurado (6″ x 58).   That’s a whole load of goodies!  Thank you to Bianca and everyone at Gurkha for providing this bounty of goodies and for her support throughout the year.

 

Rules

All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment on that day’s post and if you like, in one sentence tell us what comes to mind when you think of Gurkha Cigars.  It’s not a conditio

n to win, but I’d like for the folks who make this all possible to come away with some consumer feedback.  Also, be sure to visit the links for each item. Comments on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere else will not count, but feel free to spread the word!

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Until tomorrow,

 

CigarCraig

 

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