A Flavor Chameleon for the Enthusiast Neat Before Dinner or After Whisky Reviewed: Dalmore Cigar Malt Reserve Distiller: Dalmore Region: Speyside ABV: 44% Suggested Retail Price: $125 Distiller Rating: 90 Wine Enthusiast Rating: 95 Mark Garbin’s Review: Yes. You can drink this gem even if you don’t smoke. On the nose, relish in floral aromas […]
George A. Rico of Gran Habano has been blending cigars in his Honduran factory for years using high quality tobacco from a number of countries and developing many unique and stylish blends. His Gran Habano Gran Reserva Corojo No. 5 is rolled in Honduras and uses a Nicaraguan wrapper and binder with a Costa Rican […]
Power Flavors for the Hedonist in Cocktails (BOOM!) or After Dinner Whisky Reviewed: Craigellachie 10 Year – Single Cask Nation Bottling Distiller: Craigellachie Region: Speyside ABV: 67.3% Suggested Retail Price: $125 Mark’s Review To paraphrase a mid-20th Century joke: Do you have Sir Walter Raleigh in a scotch bottle? Well, let him out! That happened […]
I smoke a lot of cigars every year. Almost 100 cigars reviewed, and a few more outside of the reviews. That means smoking some really great cigars, and some not-so-great cigars. So I’m always excited to smoke a blend that received scores like the Cigar Aficionado 96-rated Perez Carillo Encore. Although EP Carrillo is a […]
Tobacco Power Flavor for the Adventurer after Dinner Product Specifics Scotch Reviewed: The Deveron 12 Year Distillery: Macduff Distillery Region: Highland ABV: 40% Suggested Retail Price: $60+ Mark Garbin’s Review So you walk into a cigar bar. You crave deep dark paneling and a quiet scene. The server brings over a humidor and asks if […]
Power Flavor for the Adventurer with After Dinner Cigar Product Specifics Whisky Reviewed: Jura 18 Year Distiller: Jura Distillery Region: Inner Hebrides ABV: 44% (88 proof) Matured in: ex-bourbon / ex-red wine Mark’s Review “Friendship is a smoke made with the fume of sighs”. Shakespeare’s Romeo must mean Jura 18. I can’t recall drinking such […]
Up for review is another cigar from Caldwell Cigar Co. If you’ve read any of our other reviews of Caldwell product, you know that we’ve got a soft spot for this brand. After arriving on the cigar scene a few years ago, the company has proven time and again that it can produce full bodied […]
Up for review today is another cigar from Aaron Saide and La Instructora Cigars. The company made a splash in the industry a couple of years ago, standing out for a number of reasons. First, the branding on these cigars is fascinating in that it’s actually quite difficult to read the name of the company […]