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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 [...]

Weekly News (January 28, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This week, the 2013 list of new releases will be updated, it’s a task and one that we’ve been a bit relaxed on launching, but by Friday a pretty good synopsis of what we know about will be out. It’s been a quiet January in terms of shipped releases, more so than the [...]

News: Smoke Inn Teases New Quesada Microblend Release

A new Smoke Inn Microblend release is in the works, according to a picture posted to the Florida retailer’s Facebook page on Friday afternoon. While the bulk of the information is blurred out, what is known is that the project is being made at MATASA in the Dominican Republic, the factory owned and operated by [...]

Weekly News (January 21, 2013)

Editor’s Note: We’ve started covering price increases over the weekend and I made some reference to this on Twitter, but there will be a lot less January increases than last year. I’m not sure that 2013 will be without them, I honestly do think a portion of the companies indicating there won’t be any at [...]

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 [...]

Weekly News (December 10, 2012)

Editor’s Note: Thanks to all those who made it to the halfwheel Holiday Party Pt. 1 at Tobacco Grove this past weekend. It was lots of fun and we found out that Brooks and I should probably remain in Dallas, where it only snows once a year. Details on Pt. 2, which will be on [...]

News: Big Delicious Coming from Room101 & Smoke Inn

A new cigar project from Room101 is on the way, called “Big Delicious” that will be part of Smoke Inn’s Microblend Series. Room101′s Matt Booth says that the blend has been finalized but the specific size is still being decided.  The name comes from Booth’s nickname for Abe Dababneh, owner of Smoke Inn in South [...]

Press Release: Tatuaje Apocalypse

November 7, 2012 (West Palm Beach, FL) – December 21, 2012 marks the conclusion of the 13th Ba’ak’tun in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar. It is believed that Armageddon would overtake the peoples of the world and all creation at this time. On December 14th, be prepared to smoke the last cigar you will ever [...]

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 [...]

Weekly News (May 7, 2012)

Editor’s Note: As opposed to commentary, some random notes from halfwheel. Reviews have been consistently going up later in the day, we apologize and hope to change that. Some may have noticed an increase in news over the past few months, that’s here to stay and will likely continue to increase in the coming months, [...]