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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 [...]

Press Release: Room101 & Smoke Inn Make Bastard Child!

January 15, 2013 (West Palm Beach, FL)-– In a continuing effort to create limited runs of premium cigars blended by the industry’s top manufacturers, Smoke Inn Cigars of South Florida proudly presents its sixth installment of their MicroBlend Series™,Room101 Big Delicious. The Room101 Big Delicious cigar will be a 6.25” x 42-54 Torpedo with a [...]

Review: Arturo Fuente Solaris (Prerelease)

In the latter part of 2010, Smoke Inn, based out of Florida, announced the first in what would eventually number four separate releases in what is known as their Microblend series to celebrate their 15th anniversary in business. Each release is by a different manufacturer, with different blends, sizes, numbers of cigars released and price [...]

Press Release: Solaris by Fuente

May 3, 2012 (West Palm Beach, FL) – Release Date Announced for Solaris Cigars by Arturo Fuente, made exclusively for Smoke Inn’s Microbend (*)Series. In late 2010 Smoke Inn Cigars released the Tatuaje Anarchy Cigar as a first in a four part series of small limited run releases to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary in 2011. [...]

Weekly News (April 23, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This week we added a new sponsor, Defeat Prop 29. For those of you that don’t know, Prop 29 is a ballot measure in California that would raise the taxes on cigars from its current 31.73% to 54.89% of the wholesale prices. Prop 29 goes to vote on June 5, 2012 and you [...]

News: Smoke Inn Confirms Second Anarchy Release, Tatuaje Apocolapyse

For the past few weeks, rumors of a second release of the Tatuaje Anarchy have been floating around. Today, a newly relaunched website contained information about a December 11, 2012 release. The website has a brief description: In early 2010, sightings from around the world began surfacing of riots and mob violence as news of [...]

Weekly News (February 6, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This one is pretty simple. There are some technical issues plaguing the site currently. We know of two somewhat major issues. First and foremost, commenting from a computer seems to not be working, although commenting from mobile devices seems to be working fine. We are trying to resolve this issue and think we [...]

Review: Padrón 1964 SI-15 Maduro (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… We reviewed the Natural on Wednesday, and today we are reviewing the the Padrón 1964 Smoke Inn 15th Anniversary Maduro. This year will mark 15 years Smoke Inn has been in business. If you aren’t familiar with Smoke Inn you really should check them out. They have been [...]

Review: Padrón 1964 SI-15 Natural (Prerelease)

Today we will be taking a look at a very special limited release, the Padrón 1964 Smoke Inn 15th Anniversary. This year will mark 15 years Smoke Inn has been in business. If you aren’t familiar with Smoke Inn you really should check them out. They have been providing the South Florida cigar community with [...]

Review: Tatuaje Anarchy (Prerelease) (Face-Off)

In early 2010 the hype drums started rumbling about an exclusive Tatuaje cigar dubbed Anarchy. No details were given about who was behind the project, but what was known was that it wasn’t Pete Johnson himself behind the marketing of the project; he was only part of the blending process. It was most likely a store owner celebrating an anniversary but that was all we knew. Well less than 2 weeks ago that mystery was solved….