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Review: Chaveta Robusto

Today we will be taking a look at a cigar that you have probably not heard of, the Chaveta! Early this year our good friend Mark Just of Tower Cigars informed us that he would be acquiring his own boutique brand of cigars called “Chaveta” (a Chaveta is a sharp tool used by the cigar [...]

Winners: E.P. Carrillo Week

The E.P. Carrillo week has come to an end and what a week it has been! First off we would like to thank Ernie, Ernesto III and Lissette for being so generous in donating a signed box and samples to give away. We are confident the winners are going to thoroughly enjoy them as much [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Elencos Don Rubino

Today we will be taking a look at a cigar we had planned on reviewing back when it came out in April, but decided to hold it for this week, the E.P. Carrillo Elencos! In Late 2010 E.P. Carrillo, released their Edición Limitada, a 6 x 54 Double Robusto sporting a Brazilian Habano wrapper with [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo Core Line Maduro Club 52 (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… Back in the cigar boom of the 1990′s, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. was extremely well known for his cigars that he blended for La Gloria Cubana and the sticks with Maduro wrappers were some of his most popular and noted cigars. Everyone knew that E.P. Carrillo, Ernesto’s new company, would [...]

Contest: E.P. Carrillo Contest

Hello Faithful Readers! We are happy to announce that this week is E.P Carrillo Week, where we will be previewing and reviewing (almost) every new release that E.P Carrillo is putting out this year…We will also be having two contests that will span the entire week… First, all the reviews this week are E.P. Carrillos. [...]

Review: Viaje White Label Project Fifty Fifty Red

For those of you that don’t know… This past year, Viaje has started to release cigars in a new series. Dubbed the White Label Project, these cigars are meant to be basically one off releases that most likely, unlike most of his other cigars, which are released around the same time every year. As Andre [...]

Review: Tatuaje M80

Today we will be taking a look at what has been a highly anticipated cigar, the follow-up to the Don Pepin Garcia Firecracker for Two Guys Smoke Shop, the Tatuaje M80! If you guys aren’t familiar with Two Guys Smoke Shop you should definitely check them out, with a kind, knowledgeable staff and a wonderful [...]

Contest: Para Japón Winners!

First of all, we here at SmokingStogie.com would like to thank the wonderful people at La Aurora, Cigar Explorer and Miami Cigar specifically Guillermo León, Jose Blanco, Amaury abreu, Mario Takeyama, Dan Reeve, and Jason Wood. Without these people this truly wonderful and generous cigar would not have been made. We would also like to [...]

Contest: La Aurora Para Japón

Para Japón Virtual Release Party From the desk of Project Para Japón On April 29 (Fri), 2011 at ParaJapón.com, with special guest Guillermo Leon, President of La Aurora and Miami Cigar & Co., La Aurora US exclusive distributor, will host a virtual release party for the La Aurora benefit for Japan cigar “Para Japón”. Date [...]

Review: Drew Estate “Double Signature Reserve”

For those of you that don’t know… The odds are that you have never heard of this cigar produced by Drew Estate, and the story behind it is one of the main reasons I decided to spend the time to review it… In 2009, the (then) owner of Tobacco World in Atlanta, Georgia, Robert Wachtel, [...]