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Review: Room101 Big Delicious (Prerelease)

In December 2012, halfwheel broke the story of a new cigar coming from Room101 and Smoke Inn, a project called “Big Delicious” that takes its name from Matt Booth’s nickname for Abe Dababneh, proprietor of the South Florida retailer. The new cigar, the six installment in Smoke Inn’s MicroBlend Series™, made its first public appearance on [...]

Review: Room101 Daruma Mutante

Matt Booth’s Room101 has made an annual tradition of a limited release at the IPCPR trade show. For 2012, Booth brought Daruma, which uses a Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, as well as a Brazilian Mata Fina binder, and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Honduras. As with the Namakubi, 2012′s Daruma is based on Japanese culture and philosophy. Wikipedia [...]

Redux: Room 101 LTD Namakubi Papi Chulo

Matt Booth’s Room 101 introduced their third major line at the IPCPR show in Las Vegas in 2011. Dubbed Namakubi, the brand features an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper and uses Dominican and Honduran tobacco for the filler and binder. There are 100,000 total cigars released among five different vitolas. They are: Papi Chulo — 4 x 42 [...]

Review: Room 101 OSOK Filero (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Sometime around August of 2011, word started spreading about a new cigar that Matt Booth of Room 101 Cigars was giving away at events on his Cigarmageddon Tour. Dubbed OSOK, which stands for One Shot One Kill. Very little is known about the cigar blend-wise and until now, [...]

Review: Room 101 LTD Namakubi Papi Chulo (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Introduced at the IPCPR Show last month, the Room 101 Namakubi made a splash, not just for it’s interesting name origins (below), but also for it’s box design. Room 101 also released a new Connecticut blend, which uses a wrapper sourced from Davidoff. The Namakubi actually has an [...]