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Review: Quesada q d’etat Molotov

In December of 2011, SAG Imports/Quesada announced a new project that would be the company’s first cigar solely created at Quesada’s new factory and an effort to raise awareness for cigar rights. Manuel “Manolo” Quesada’s company would create the q d’etat line as a way to protest increased restrictions on cigar smoking and higher taxes [...]

Review: E.P. Carrillo NWC Short Run 2012 Invictos (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… In June of 2010, the relatively new E.P. Carrillo released the first in what has become an annual tradition for the company, the Short Run. Each year, E.P. Carrillo produces the same 3 sizes in close to the same numbers, but with different blends. The 2010 version used [...]

Review: Cabaiguan WCD 120 REDUX

In 2007, Pete Johnson released a limited quantity of a special Cabaiguan to commemorate the 120th anniversary of W. Curtis Draper. Five years later, W. Curtis Draper commissioned four different cigars from four different brands to commemorate their 125th anniversary. Pete Johnson’s Havana Cellars was one of the four selected and the cigar chosen was the [...]

Review: My Father Le Bijou 1922 Federal Cigar 91st Cervantes Connecticut

A few weeks ago we broke the news on Federal Cigar’s 91st anniversary cigar, the My Father Le Bijou 1922 Cervantes. Back then, Rick Gadway thought that the cigars would be arriving to New Hampshire on February 1st. Turns out, they showed up a day early, but nonetheless, the cigars are in stock. Rather than [...]

Review: My Father Le Bijou 1922 Federal Cigar 91st Cervantes Maduro

Like last year’s Tatuaje 109, Rick Gadway had two cigars made for Federal Cigar’s 91st anniversary, one in Ecuadorian Connecticut and one in a Connecticut Broadleaf. The former, like the Tatuaje 109 Reserva, was only offered to local customers; the latter, like the 109 Rosado, is being sold to the general public. We broke the [...]

Review: OpusX ForbiddenX 13 Nacimiento 1912

For those of you that don’t know… Midway through December of 2011, some interesting boxes of Fuente products started showing up at various stores across the country with nearly no forewarning at all. Almost nothing was known about these cigars when they were released and people on the boards and Twitter had a field day [...]

Review: Viaje Platino Samurai (2012)

For those of you that don’t know… As with a lot of his Limited Edition releases, Andre Farkas of Viaje Cigars has once again released the “Samurai”, a limited edition Corona Gorda in the Platino blend. _______________________________________________________________________   This is what I said about the Samurai in the review in 2010: In 2009, Viaje started the [...]

Review: Regius Robusto

For those of you that don’t know… I recently became aware that Regius Cigars were now available in the United States for the first time, and it just so happens that the official distributer is right here in Dallas at Sacred Cigars, allowing me to pick up my review sticks, instead of having them shipped [...]

Winner: Christmas 2011

Ok, it is time to announce the Winner of the 3rd Annual Christmas Contest! I did a number drawing last night (using Random.org, as you can see), and the number that came up was 93! That number just happened to match up with Doogie, who asked for: 1st choice —- something really old (never had something [...]

Contest: Christmas (2011)

Hello, Faitful Readers! You know, every year, I see a bunch of cigar sites posting Christmas contests, and they are all offering boxes of so-so cigars, or grab bags, or what have you…Now, we here at SmokingStogie.com are not ones to follow what other people do (other then the fact that we are having a [...]