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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.

Crux Adds du Connoisseur to IPCPR 2015 Roster

Three days after announcing Guild, Crux Cigars has released details on a second new blend. The Crux du Connoisseur is a new regular production release will be…

Fratello Bianco I

In May, Fratello announced its first new line since the brand launched in 2013. Dubbed the Bianco — which translates to white from Italian, a reference…

Crux To Show Off New Guild Line at IPCPR 2015

Crux Cigars has announced its newest release that will be shown at the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. Named Crux Guild, the new regular…

262 Allegiance Lancero

In March 2014, 262 Cigars announced a new line of cigars named Allegiance, a brand that was conceived as a “line in the sand” against…

XIKAR M8

In November of last year, XIKAR soft-launched the M8, an all metal version of its extremely popular X8 cutter to approximately 60 retail accounts. Earlier this…

CAO Amazon Basin

At the 2014 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, General Cigar Co. released a unique cigar named CAO Amazon Basin which relied heavily on Bragança, a tobacco…

Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2015 LC46

In May 2014, Crowned Heads released the first line in its history not produced by Ernesto Perez-Carillo’s factory in the Dominican Republic. Named Las Calaveras Edición Limitada…

Viaje Throw Down Fed Head

Last month, Cigar Dojo and Cigar Federation announced that they would be partnering with Viaje to produce two different blends, each of which would be…

Alec Bradley Sanctum Robusto

During the 2014 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Alec Bradley teased a new regular production cigar still in progress that was being blended by Ralph…

Portraits: Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.

There are few people held by their peers in higher regard than Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. The cigar maker, now in arguably his third chapter in…

Ortega Larceny by Sean Williams

Back in February, we reported on an unusual project that brought together three different cigar companies to produce two different cigars. Dubbed Larceny, the new collaboration…