Espinoza Premium Cigars recently announced the release of an Espinoza Maduro, which will feature a dark Mexican Maduro wrapper. Espinoza’s other blend, the Espinoza Habano (released last year), is highly acclaimed. This is a cigar to watch for at your local tobacconist. April 9, 2013 (Hialeah Gardens, Fla.) — Espinosa Premium Cigars is proud to […]
Ballantine’s, the No.2 ultra-premium and Prestige Scotch whisky range in Asia-Pacific, has unveiled the 2013 Ballantine’s Championship Blend after exclusively bringing together Master Blender Sandy Hyslop and winner of the 2012 Ballantine’s Championship, Bernd Wiesberger, to create the sixth unique expression of the prestigious blend. The 2013 Championship Blend has been created with a selection […]
Nat Sherman, the iconic New York City tobacconist, announced yesterday that the company will launch a retail humidor program aimed at stocking hospitality companies with luxurious humidors and cigars for their customers. This new program is just one in a string of new initiatives taken by the Nat Sherman team in the last year, joining […]
Management at the Cigar Inn announced yesterday evening the launch of a new event to celebrate the launch of Gary Sheffield’s new cigar, the HR (Home Run) 500 cigar. As we reported earlier this week, the cigar was blended by Rocky Patel. Event details are below: ————– Dear Cigar Inn Members Come meet and greet baseball […]
This post is for the cigar smoker on a budget. Chances are, if you’re an average cigar smoker, you know what being on a budget is like. You can’t afford to regularly drop $15 on one cigar. Heck, you can’t even spend $30 on a five-pack. So you’re stuck either smoking infrequently (bad), smoking low-quality […]
Two icons in their respective fields, Rocky Patel and Gary Sheffield collaborate to launch a commemorative cigar – The Homerun 500 Club Cigar by Gary Sheffield August 30, 2012 (Bonita Springs, FL). Two icons in their respective fields, Rocky Patel and Gary Sheffield join forces to bring you a special cigar, to commemorate Sheffield’s rare […]
The members of the FTNYC staff and I are big bourbon whiskey fans. I’ve been on something of a crusade the past six months to sample as many bourbons as possible, and this has taken me from popular consumer brands like Makers and Woodford Reserve to some more difficult to find bourbons like Elijah Craig […]
The management at Studio Sq. (Astoria Beergarden) recently announced another event in what has become a very popular string of events (take a look at the last one) hosted with Rocky Patel. “Smoke,” a Whiskey, Cigar and BBQ Festival will be hosted at Studio Sq. and will feature cigars from Rocky Patel, including the newly […]
Drew Estate is at it again. Nicknamed “KFC”, the new line, going by the name “Kentucky Fire Cured” features a wrapper of Kentucky Fired Cured tobacco. I don’t have an inkling of what this means with respect to taste besides spice/full flavor, but with all of the incredible releases from Drew Estate in the past […]
This cigar from L’Atelier Imports is collaboration between Pete Johnson, his brother K.C., Sean Casper Johnson, and Dan Welsh of New Havana Cigars. The sizes are an homage to Cuban Cohiba Behikes. The cigar is made by Pepin Garcia in the My Father factory in Nicaragua. The filler blend is of Nicaraguan tobaccos while the […]
Rocky Patel is once again on to a new blend: the 2/26. RP is, of course, a brand that has gotten a lot of hate in recent years from cigar smokers for releasing “too many blends” – the problem with this obviously being that so many of their blends are so damn good. Recent releases like the Freedom […]
So what cigar do you smoke after a gastronomic journey at the 3 Michelin starred Brooklyn Fare? You need something as balanced and complex as the twenty-three courses Chef Ramirez executes perfectly. Enter:The Cohiba Pirámides Extra. This cigar capped my evening by continuing to leave flavors lingering on my palate akin to the dishes I […]