Cigar - 53 posts found << < 1 2 3 > >>
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How To Buy A Humidor - Store Your Cigars the Right Way |
| 11/29/2008 8:06:47 AM |
If You Love Cigars, You Need a Humidor
Even if you’ve only recently started enjoying fine cigars, you should buy a quality humidor before your collection grows further. The cigar box that came with your cigars is fine for shipping, but it won’t keep them in prime condition over the long term. As you well know, some cigars need to be kept for 6 or 7 years before they reach... Read More |
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A night of good Port and fine cigars |
| 11/21/2008 6:38:53 PM |
 This past Wednesday night I attended a Port wine and cigar tasting party sponsored by Gary's Wine & Marketplace in Wayne, N.J. (No relation to moi.) Held at Jamie's Restaurant in Clifton, NJ, Gary's supplied the Ports, and the cigars were provided by Tony Santana of The Cigar Vault in Nutley, NJ. Tony, who is of Cuban descent, also markets his own Santana line of... Read More |
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Will President Obama be "cigar friendly?" |
| 11/8/2008 1:53:45 PM |
 Now that America has spoken by electing Barack Obama its 44th president, there's no doubt "change" is in the cards. All sorts of questions have arisen since he made his victory speech. Will he continue to lean "left" as he did in the Senate, or will he rule more as a "centrist?" Will he raise taxes on small businesses? Will he push through a... Read More |
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The Politics of Cigars Don't Box Me in! |
| 11/2/2008 11:38:19 AM |
 Cigars have long been a part of the iconography of American politics. On the negative side, early-twentieth-century newspaper cartoons symbolized the greed of villainous "party bosses" and robber barons by showing fat men lighting their stogies with one-hundred dollar bills. On a more positive note, cigar boxes were also used to advertise for various campaigns -... Read More |
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Retro-Smoke Cigar: Oliva Master Blends 2 Churchill |
| 10/26/2008 9:02:55 AM |
 Earlier this week I alluded to the cigar I'm writing about today: The Oliva Master Blends 2 Churchill. I've had this cigar in my humidor for about three years, and must admit that I was a bit sad at the thought of lighting it up, since it was not only my last, but maybe one of the last of these cigars on earth. Since Oliva only made these in limited edition, they've become... Read More |
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Cigars from Everywhere A Look at the Best Cigars from Two Nations |
| 10/23/2008 8:53:25 PM |
 The best cigars in the world, if you''re just looking at rankings, tend to come from only a few countries, most of them Latin American: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and those banned-in-America Cuban cigars that everyone talks about. However, excellent tobacco is grown all over the world?some regions that you might not immediately think of include... Read More |
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Why Churchill's most famous photo had no cigar |
| 10/19/2008 7:57:24 AM |
 Ready for a little cigar history today? Perhaps a better way to phrase it would be "no cigar" history. In a column I read last month titled, "No reason to scowl" by John Sewell in The Ottawa Citizen, a reader wrote that he had inherited a black-and-white portrait of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from his late grandfather that was signed by... Read More |
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Interesting Opinions On Cigars From Recent Survey |
| 10/14/2008 9:37:31 AM |
 According to a recent survey by the ASC (alt.smokers.cigars) the following results were obtained from a recent online survey of cigar smokers:
86% of cigar smokers report that they do not inhale.
The average number of cigars smoked per week is 6.74 at and average price of $4.34
The best individual cigars were the Romeo y Julieta Churchill(Cuba) with 8 votes, the Cohiba... Read More |
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How Do you rate a Cigar? |
| 10/13/2008 8:26:08 PM |
 The cigar ratings supplied by publications like Cigar Magazine and Cigar Aficionado form an important part of the modern cigar industry. For cigar smokers, these ratings provide guidance in a crowded market.
As pressed-for-time moviegoers may look to Roger Ebert for guidance at the multiplex, smokers use the magazines'' ratings to cut down on their in-store browsing time.... Read More |
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Reviving dry cigars kept in a factory cigar box |
| 10/10/2008 5:37:23 PM |
I was going through a list of past "advice" columns this morning when I found this lil' nugget. I updated it a bit and hope you find it useful:
If you store your cigars in their factory boxes and they're starting to dry out, here's a really good way to revive them. Note that if the cigars are very dry they will be difficult to revive satisfactorily. The key is, if... Read More |
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What Drinks Go Best with Cigars |
| 10/1/2008 1:39:38 PM |
 The signs are everywhere: more and more Americans are interested again in the idea of using their homes to entertain friends and associates.
An Amazon search for books on "entertaining" calls up over 468,000 hits, while?if you search "party ideas" on Google?you get nineteen million. Whereas entertaining seemed to disappear from the culture''s radar... Read More |
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Clipping Figurado-shaped cigars |
| 9/29/2008 9:59:36 PM |
 For some new cigar smokers, their first experience with "Torpedo," "Belicoso," "Pyramid," "Double Perfecto," and other tapered head cigars can be a little confusing. Do you clip it? Punch it? Bite it?
Generally referred to as "Figurados," one thing these attractive-looking cigars have in common is a tapered head, or a head... Read More |
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Why age your cigars after they arrive? |
| 9/27/2008 1:58:51 PM |
 Here's an "age old" question for you (perhaps "age new" question would be a better term for the purposes of this post). I have often been asked why aging your cigars after purchasing them, whether it be at a neighborhood cigar store or by mail, is a common practice. One particular reader recently brought up the following good point:
"When I buy... Read More |
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