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I have been smoking cigars for over eight years. A documentary wedding photographer by trade, I spent seven years as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I started the cigar blog SmokingStogie in 2008 after realizing that there was a need for a cigar blog with better photographs and more in-depth information about each release. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars. I am a co-founder of halfwheel and now serve as an editor for halfwheel.

IPCPR 2017: Serino Cigar Co.

Sporting a new expanded booth this year, Serino Cigar Co. had just one new release for this year’s show. The company is owned by the…

Herrera Estelí Norteño Edición Limitada

In July 2014, Drew Estate announced the first follow-up to its popular Herrera Estelí brand, the Herrera Estelí Norteño Edición Limitada. Coming in at 7 x 48, the…

Aging Room Mi Tierra Robusto

Exclusive cigars for retailers are nothing new, but Thompson Cigar Co.and Aging Room are no strangers to one another. In fact, the Tampa, Fla.-based retailer and…

Rock-A-Feller Gold Series

Although you many not heard of the Vintage Rockefeller Cigar Group cigar brand, you have probably heard about some of the people that started it. When…

Viaje Zombie Antidote Collector’s Edition (2017)

Viaje is known for many things, but one of the most interesting are the unique backstories that some of the releases have. A couple months…

Gispert Intenso Corona

Collaboration has been the hottest buzz word in the cigar industry for the last couple of years and no company seems more involved in the trend…

Davidoff Culebras Limited Edition Yamasá

If you had asked me two months ago what I thought the next Davidoff release would be, a culebra would not have even been in…

Caldwell Long Live The King Harem

Early last year, Small Batch Cigars—which is the online store of Maxamar Ultimate Cigars—announced that it would be the exclusive retailer for the smallest vitola…

Casa Cuevas Maduro Toro

You may not have heard of the Cuevas family, but there is a good chance you have smoked at least one of the cigars they have…

Portraits: Hector Luis Prieto

You may not have heard of Hector Luis Prieto, but he is one of the most important men in tobacco today. Born in the western Cuban town…

Southern Draw The Rose of Sharon Toro

Cigars commemorating specific people are nothing new in the cigar industry and Southern Draw Cigars owner Robert Holt added another to the list with a…