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News: BOTL.org Small Batch Releases Return From Drew Estate & Pinar Del Rio

The BOTL.org forum will see both of its limited release cigars return beginning later this month. On Sunday, it was announced the Pinar Del Rio BOTL.org Small Batch 2010 would be returning for a 2013 edition. The blend and size are said to stay the same as the original release with 200 numbered boxes of [...]

Review: Drew Estate BOTL.org 2012

In July of 2010, Pinar Del Río released 4,000 cigars for the  BOTL.org (Brothers of the Leaf) forum. Dubbed the Pinar Del Río BOTL.org Small Batch 2010, the cigar was sold at Burning Leaf Cigars in Illinois, a store forum user Tim Podwika worked at. In 2011, Podwika left the store to start Podman Cigars. He had [...]

Review: CroMagnon Atlatl

While at the IPCPR show earlier in the year, the folks at RoMa Craft handed us a sample of a new vitola they were playing with, the CroMagnon Atlatl or CroMagnon Lancero. While the Atlatls in both the CroMagnon and Aquitaine blends have been handed out at various events for the last few months, they have [...]

News: Gran Habano Barracuda Adds Corona Gorda

The Gran Habano S.T.K. Barracuda will be adding a retailer-exclusive size later this year – a 5 5/8 x 46 Corona Gorda made for Tim Podwika’s PodmanCigars.com. Podwika said that he was sitting with George Rico of Gran Habano at the company’s recently-opened factory on Calle Ocho in Miami and he brought up the idea [...]

News: Drew Estate to Make BOTL.org 2012 Cigar

The 2012 edition of the BOTL.org cigar has been announced: a 7 x 38 Lancero made by Drew Estate and sold exclusively through PodmanCigars.com, the online shop owned by Tim Podwika. The release will be limited to 200 boxes of 15 cigars, with a single stick retail price of $12.95. Podwika said he will also [...]

Weekly News (January 30, 2012)

Editor’s Note: And it was supposed to be a slow week in the cigar world. What seemed destined to be a rather quiet week turned into the busiest of the year. Familiar readers of the weekly news will see that it is back to somewhat of a familiar form. Cabaiguan WCD 120 REDUX — The [...]

Weekly News (August 8, 2011)

Editor’s Note: Yes, we are still here. There was some thought that we were going to have to move servers and guess what I spent my weekend doing… After countless hours of php, SQL and SSH, all of which are still foreign to me, it sounds like we aren’t going to have to move servers [...]