by | March 31, 2021 · 9:03 pm

News: Drew Estate Will Air Freestyle Live: Special Edition Thursday, May 6th

Here’s the first of a couple Wednesday news items. This is another big Drew Estate Freestyle Live Facebook Event. This one looks to be an interesting one! I may have to tune in. Will Pedro be drinking Presidente or his favorite “Jingling” beer? (a bit of an inside joke between Pedro and I).

 

Drew Estate will air Freestyle Live: Special Edition on Thursday, May 6th, on its Facebook Live page (facebook.com/drewestatecigar) at its usual broadcast time of 7-9 p.m. EST, but this episode will be a shocker to both consumers and trade alike, so get ready!

 

Here’s the scoop … Leading up to the Freestyle Live broadcast, Drew Estate will ship participating retailers across the United States a limited amount of Freestyle Live Event Packs that will include three of a new ultra-premium cigar [WITHOUT BANDS], a travel humidor, a cutter, a lighter and a raffle ticket. The identity of the newly released cigars will remain an air-tight secret right up to the moment that Drew Estate’s Ambassadors reveal their identity during the show.

 

From the Wynwood Safehouse in Miami, JD reveals, “This episode is gonna be a straight gangsta party. In addition to bookending the final night of our new brand media blitz, we’re gonna go absolutely bananas with massive consumer prizes and theatrics galore. But check me here … consumers who were diligent enough to snag a pack from their local bricks-and-mortar will burn the new sticks with the Drew Estate Ambassadors, Sales Team, Executive Team and Nicaragua Front Line Division at the exact same time so we can all enjoy the experience together. At that exact moment, we gonna drop the 411 on this worldwide, globa

lized sexy beast! I’m gonna be drinkin’ Angels Envy Cask Strength for this one. Joey and Frankie prolly be slurpin’ the Mezcal in those red

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adobe “cupitos,” while Pedro drinks a few Presidentes, and Willy’s double fisted with two cigars burning at the same time. Hahaha … let’s ride.”

 

 

 

The raffle ticket included in the Freestyle Live Event Pack automatically enters consumers for a chance to win* one of three prizes … a Drew Estate Standing Tower humidor for third prize; a Drew Estate branded bar designed by Dog at Subculture Studios for second prize; and the grand prize of a Suzuki Supermoto DR-7400SM dirt bike. Retailers who participate in the Freestyle Live Event Pack promotion will be automatically entered for a chance to win* one of three prizes … a Drew Estate Standing Tower humidor for third prize; a Drew Estate branded bar designed by Dog at Subculture Studios for second prize; and the grand prize package of a Mega Standing ashtray, three Dream Seat recliners and a $5,000 credit for store improvements. Prize winners will be announced during the show.

 

 

Drew Estate’s Freestyle Live Special Edition Event Packs have an MSRP of $40 … with only 2,300 available for purchase beginning on April 12.

 

Drew Estate Freestyle Live Special Edition will kick off on Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m. on facebook.com/drewestatecigar.

 

* NO PURCHASE NECESSARY FOR CONSUMER OR RETAILER PROMOTIONS. Legal residents of the 50 United States (incl. D.C.; excl. MA, MI and VA), 21 years or older. En

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ter Sweepstakes by: 4/29/21. To enter and for Official Rules, including prize descriptions, visit https://drewestate.com/freestylelivetradepromotion. Odds depend on number of eligible entries received. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: SWI-DE, LLC, 12415 SW 136th Avenue, Suite 7, Miami, FL 33186.

 

ABOUT DREW ESTATE

Founded in New York City in 1996, Drew Estate has become one of the fastest growing tobacco companies in the wo

rld. Under their mantra “The Rebirth of Cigars”, Drew Estate has led the “Boutique Cigar” movement by innovating new elements to the tobacco industry with their unique tobaccos and blending styles that attract new and traditional cigar enthusiasts. In their Gran Fabrica Drew Estate, the Nicaraguan headquarters, Drew Estate produces a variety of brands such as ACID, Herrera Estelí, Herrera Estelí Norteño, Isla del Sol, Kentucky Fired Cured, Liga Privada, MUWAT, Larutan by Drew Estate, Nica Rustica, Pappy Van Winkle Barrel Fermented Cigars, Tabak Especial, Undercrown, Florida Sun Grown, and Java by Drew Estate.

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by | March 28, 2021 · 10:06 am

Altadis Know Your Wrapper Series Event at Goose’s Montecristo Lounge

Friday evening I attended an event, s

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ort of. Goose’s Montecristo Lounge in Limerick, PA hosted the Altadis USA Know Your Wrapper Series event, both in their lounge and virtually. They probably had 15 or so people there in the lounge, which is spacious, no worries there, and a few of us attending virtually, including myself, Tom Stroud, the Altadis USA territory Manager and his wife, John Remer, who host the Facebook Group and show Johnny Smokes Uncut, and a few others.  In this event, each attendee purchased a box which contained seven corona size cigars that were puros of seven different wrapper varieties. The event was led by Travis Pappenheim, the National Education Manager at Altadis USA. He guided us through the tasting of the first couple of the puritos, presenting information on the growing regions and some of the cigars that used the various wrappers. This event

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was interactive, as Travis, even though he was located in south Florida, was taking questions from the lounge at Gooses, as well as interacting with the rest of the guests.

 

A few geeky thoughts on the puros:  The first one was the USA Connecticut: It had some natural sweetness on the lips at first, but I thought it was fairly sour with some bitterness. It smoothed out after a while. The Cameroon was surprising, as a wrapper only it is very distinctive, when the entire cigar is Cameroon it runs over itself and that sweet, nutty Camerooniness I love is overwhelming and exhausting. The Ecuador Connecticut is smoother and creamier than the than the USA version. In my mind, it worked better a

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s a cigar. I don’t care much for Criollo, and a 100% criollo cigar doesn’t thrill me, the saving grace was that it was the fourth cigar in a little over an hour. Travis gave some great advice, which was to smoke the Sumatra on a fresh palate, and since that is one of, if not my favorite, wrapper varitals, I smoked this one

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last night. Once again, it tasted like Sumatra should taste, but too much of a good thing. HAlf way in, I switched to the Broadleaf, another favorit

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e wrapper. This was the only one in the selection that wasn’t a puro, because, Travis said, getting the Broadleaf puro to burnright wasn’t happening. Not surprisingly, this was the best sm

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oking experience of the bunch as a cigar, as far as balance and flavor went, with sweet cocoa and coffee notes that I love. I saved the Habano for another time, maybe today, as I was worn out.

 

As a cigar geek, I found this to be a really entertaining experience, as I always do. I’ve done these sorts of things before and I always learn something, and it reinforces things I knew, and reminds me of things I forgot. My main takeaway is that there’s a reason that these are wrapper leaves and there aren’t puros made from the various leaves. First, they’d be really expensive cigars, and mostly, they aren’t balanced and just don’t really taste good. There was one (the US Connecticut) that Travis mentioned a surprise at the halfway point and suspect he had the leaf tips thee or something and I got a cinnamon sensation somewhere thereabouts, but that was about the only thing close to complexity I got. I also have had indigestion and a sour stomach for the last two days, and it might have something to do with the tobaccos, not sure. I haven’t eaten anything strange. I wouldn’t trade the experience though,  Travis did a great job presenting and Goose was a wonderful host as always. I would have enjoyed being there in person, he has a great lounge, but between the time and “the times”, joining over Zoom was ideal. Thank you John for having me!

 

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

 

CigarCraig

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by | March 24, 2021 · 9:25 pm

Trinidad Espiritu No.2 Toro Cigar

I was out over the weekend looking for some specific cigars and couldn’t find them, so, being me and all, I couldn’t walk out of a cigar shop empty handed, so one of the cigars I picked up that was new to me was the Trinidad Espiritu No.2 in the Toro size. They had the Magnum and Robusto as well, but I like Toros, so

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that’s what I got! I’ll admit, there aren’t a great many cigars in the Altadis portfolio that I get excited about, but I’ve found in the last few years, the cigars that have been made in collaboration with A.J. Fernandez have been to my liking. This is such a cigar. 

 

The Trinidad Espiritu No.2 has a Brazilian Arapiraca wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan and Brazilian fillers, and is a collaboration with Rafael Nodal and AJ Fernandez and, one assumes, made at A.J. Fernandez’ factory in Esteli. It’s beautiful dark, oily wrapper, very rustic looking, and appealing to my pers

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onal aesthetic. I certainly didn’t mind shelling out over $10 each for a couple of these. I remember smoking a Trinidad Fundadores one New Years Eve about 20 years ago and it was spectacular, but absolutely nothing like this Trinidad. This was a heavy, lush cigar. It was my kind of cigar, loaded with dark chocolate and espresso flavors,

with some spiciness. This flew to the top of the list of my fa

vorite Altadis cigars. This cigar was exploding with flavor and I loved it.

 

That’s a

ll for today, until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig

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by | March 21, 2021 · 9:32 am

CAO Arcana Mortal Coil and Some Random Thoughts

Before I get to the cigar, let me get some stuff off my chest. Little things get under my skin that maybe shouldn’t. but they do. Simple misuse of cigar terminology, for instance. Call it a pet peeve. One that came up recently was while listening to a podcast that I don’t often listen to, and the host is a large reason why. I firmly believe that if you are hosting a cigar podcast, and consider yourself experienced in the cigar industry, you should have a good grasp on simple terminology. For instance, if someone says they take the wrapper off a cigar and put it in their wallet, I’m picturing peeling the outer leaf off and it making a big mess in someone’s billfold, leaving an ugly cigar with just the binder, basically ruining the cigar and changing the flavor dramatically. I try to correct this when I see the mistake made in forums by laymen, I pretty much correct those who refer to either cello or the band as the wrapper. Generally the question is something like: “should I remove the wrappers from my cigars when I put them in the humidor” and my response is :“ No! The wrapper is the most expensive leaf and takes skill to apply, and adds flavor to the cigar! You probably mean the cellophane” or something similarly smart ass. But I don’t expect this mistake from someone hosting a podcast, writing a cigar blog, or otherwise in cigar media. In talking to other people, this isn’t this individual’s only flaw by any stretch. I find his interviewing style egregius and he’s unentertaining. I’ve gone as far as to remove the link to the show from my site as it’s no longer worth having any association with. This is actually one of the kind of cigar media guys who could give the rest of us a bad name in the industry. That’s the end of my rant, before I go any further down a rabbit hole. I smoked cigars this week, let’s talk about that!

 

I smoked a few cigars this week that I can’t talk about that were really interesting, and a couple that I want to smoke more of before writing about, but the one standout was the new CAO Arcana Mortal Coil. With Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) coming to their senses and hiring back their PR director recently, samples have begun showing up in my mailbox again, and I haven’t had to journey out looking for this cigar, which I would have done anyway, because it sounded amazing. The Mortal Coil has a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, with a Connecticut Shade binder and Dominican Andullo, Honduran Jamastran, Nicaraguan Esteli and Dominican Piloto Cubano fillers. It’s 6 1/8″ x 50 and they only made 5000 boxes (I think they left out how many per box!). I found this to be a powerhouse cigar, and I loved it. It was rich and spicy, with some nice sweet flavors, and I really enjoyed it. I wan’t enamoured with the band though, it’s about 7½” long when unfurled. I get it, it coiled around the cigar, but it’s a lot of band to deal with, and must irritate the folks in the STG factory in Esteli who have to apply it to the cigars, as it’s totally different that banding any other cigar. That being said, it’s not a cord of tobacco, so there’s that. Overall, it’s a really good cigar for my palate, and I’ll be picking up some if I see them in the shops, just to have on hand for a treat. I appreciate the interplay of the Broadleaf and shade wrapper/binder combo, the CAO Bones has the same combo and I really like that. 

 

Speaking of bands, my wife is working on another cigar band table project and needs yellow bands! What cigars have yellow bands? Leave comments with suggestions, or if you have some, let me know and we can come to an arrangement (wink, wink). 

 

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

 

CigarCraig

 

 

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by | March 20, 2021 · 10:26 am

UPDATED News: United Cigars Celebrates Our Beloved Sports Stadiums

I’m disappointed in this news for a few reasons.  I was looking forward to the cigars, and I feel

like the reasoning is pretty weak. I think it’s pretty safe to assume this was killed due to the word “Monstah” infringing on Pete Johnson’s “Monster” trademark, but I fail to see how there could be any confusion. The only thing I can understand is that the trademark has to be defended in an evenhanded manner, if he allows one person to get away with one permutation of the word, someone else can find another loophole. It seems crappy, but I suppose the owners of United would defend their trademarks as well (and probably have).

United Cigar is disappointed to announce that its 1st Stadium Series releases has been halted. The Asylum Green Monstah, a collaboration with CLE Cigars and United Cigars, was due to ship to United retail partners just in time for opening day of baseball scheduled for April 1, 2021. This limited release was produced in two vitolas packaged in 9 count boxes representing the nine innings of baseball. The box is shaped as home plate with both sides fashioned after the iconic left field wall of Fenway Park: The Green Monstah.

“This project meant more than cigars,” said Oliver Nivaud, Director of Operations at United Cigar. “Baseball is America’s pass-time; stadiums delivered sports, music and life before the pandemic and we wanted to share our passion with other enthusiasts. My connection to Boston’s Fenway Park is deeper than just a cigar project, I named my son after the park in 2004. I never expected the cancel culture to show itself in the cigar industry, especially not because we named our first series after a green wall that was built in 1912.”

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s regretfully pulling the Stadium Series Green Monstah from the market for now until a direction is decided upon. This decision was made after another cigar brand owner reached out to CLE directly and said that a portion of the name of would need to be concealed. As this was not an option United Cigars wanted to accommodate, the decision was made to pull the series to avoid further distress to their friends at CLE.

This will not stop the Series Unidas Stadium Series however, United Cigars has new plans for this annual release and has begun the early steps for the next one which should be announced by this Fall.

 

 


A rare Saturday morning post, I was going to do this one last night, but I didn’t get around to it. Funny, because I had candela on my mind, but that’s a story for another day. I like a candela, and Christian Eiroa made one of my favorite Candelas when he made the Camacho Monarca in Candela years ago. I really miss that cigar, I smoked through a box of them a dozen years ago or so. Maybe this will be similar blend? I guess I’ll have to get my hands on some and see (if my memory holds up).  As far as the stadium series goes, I can only hope they don’t do one for Vet Stadium, as many great memories I have of that stadium, it really wasn’t what I’d call a great baseball stadium (and there’s already a Phillies cigar, and I ain’t smoking it)! 

 

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th nearly a year behind us since we have had the opportunity to visit a stadium to cheer on our favorite  athletes, United Cigars has decided to bring the stadium to you. Teaming up with Christian Eiroa and Tom Lazuka of  Asylum Cigars, United Cigars is launching a new line as part of their Series Unidas collection and will ship to retailers next  wee

k in time for baseball’s opening day. The Green Monstah cigar release will pay tribute to the Boston Red Sox and  Fenway Park as the launch of a planned United Cigars Limited Edition Stadium Series line.  

 

A collectible series honoring America’s beloved stadiums, the Green Monstah boxes will showcase the iconic scoreboard  and celebrate our love of the game. Available in two classic Asylum Cigar vitolas, 6 x 60 and 7 x 70, the Green Monstah  limited series features an Ecuadorian candela wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and fillers from Esteli and Jalapa. This Limited  Edition Stadium Series production was kept to 250 boxes of each size and will be available in boxes of 9 cigars for 9  innings of baseball. The boxes were constructed to resemble home plate, so this is perfect for every baseball  enthusiast’s collection and cigar lover’s humidor. 

 

 

“The sounds at the ballpark have always been a part of my Spring,” said Oliver Nivaud Director of Operations for United  Cigars. “Now we have an Asylum cigar to smoke for opening day. Fenway Park is my Holy Cathedral, but we have a few more  stadiums in mind for this stadium series.” 

 

Tom Lazuka, Co-Founder of Asylum Cigars added, “This was an exciting project as both Christian and I are huge baseball fans.  We worked hard to have a candela in a large format, turned out to be an amazing cigar that has filled a few of my ashtrays.” 

 

 

The Green Monstah will begin shipping to retailers on March 22nd in limited quantities. MSRP on the 6 x 60 is  $79.99/$8.88 and the 7 x 70 will retail for $89.99/$9.99. 

 

About United Cigars 

United Cigar began as a US based cigar store chain in 1901 growing to nearly 3,000 shops. United Cigar eventually  became part of the corporation that bought Marvel Comics in 1968. The United Cigar chain represented the interests of  the Consolidated Tobacco Company, the tobacco trust that controlled the American Tobacco Company. 

Today United Cigars distributes and manufactures premium cigars within the United States. Distribution agreements  with Selected Tobacco (Atabey, Byron & Bandolero) as well as Jose Dominguez cigars. United Cigars has its own brands  including the quick-selling bundle line Classic, La Gianna Havana, and our flagship brand United to name a few.  United Cigar Series Unidas, a collaboration with respected manufacturers, provides premium cigar retailers with Limited  Release productions.  

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