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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.

United Cigars Schedules La Gianna Havana 30th Anniversary For PCA 2024

The cigar wrapper’s barber pole design is made by combining an Ecuadorian Connecticut leaf and a Mexican San Andres leaf.

Dapper “As F$$K” Sampler Arrives at Secreto Cigar Bar Exclusive

The sampler includes a pre-release of Dapper’s upcoming new line named El Borracho Crudo.

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Adding Umbagog Bronzeback at PCA 2024

The new cigar was created as an homage to the Henry Clay cigars from the 1980s and 1990s. 

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Announces #GFY Lancero Collection for Fall

The sampler includes both a rerelease of Dunbarton’s Muestra de Saka #NLMTHA and a first-for-the-company candela-wrapped lancero.

Weekly News (March 11, 2024)

The headlines, reviews and more from the past week.

La Aurora 120 Anniversary Toro

One hundred and twenty years is a long time to be in the cigar business.

Ashton’s La Aroma de Cuba Noblesse Returning This Spring

The blend and packaging are new, but it is still being made at the My Father S.A. factory in Nicaragua. Most importantly, it is coming back as a regular production cigar.

Fratello Debuting Arlequín Connecticut at PCA 2024

The new blend is made up of an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper covering a binder from Ecuador and a filler blend of tobaccos grown in Nicaragua and Peru.