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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 [...]

News: RoMa Craft Tobac to Sell CroMagnon Atlatl & Slobberknocker

Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac announced on Twitter that the CroMagnon Atlatl and Slobberknocker would be offered for sale shortly through Tim Podwika’s podmancigars.com. Atlatl, a 7 x 38 Lancero, and Slobbernocker, a 7 1/2 x 56 double-capped Parejo, have previously been offered by Martin and his partner Michael Rosales at some 20 events [...]

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 [...]

Redux: Pinar Del Río BOTL.org Small Batch 2010

Today is another one of our Monday morning traditions at halfwheel, redux reviews. For more info about redux reviews and all of other review types, click here. Today’s redux review is of a cigar I reviewed way back in 2010, the Pinar Del Río “Brother of the Leaf” (BOTL) Small Batch 2010. While I had [...]

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 [...]