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Brooks Whittington

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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.

H. Upmann Grupo de Maestros Connecticut Belicoso

In 2015, Altadis U.S.A. shipped a unique new creation with a very interesting backstory. The Montecristo Grupo de Maestros Private Batch was a cigar was reportedly produced…

Benchmade 1500-181 Cigar Cutter

Benchmade Knife Co. has long been known for its extremely high-quality knives that carry equally high prices, but earlier this year the Oregon-based company began shipping a…

HVC Black Friday 2018

The first day after Thanksgiving—otherwise known as Black Friday—has become more and more synonymous with shopping, crazy deals and even violence. In 2015, HVC Cigars released…

Nestor Miranda Collection 75th Anniversary

Miami Cigar & Co. is not known for releasing an abundance of new cigars; in fact, other than flavored cigars, the company had not announced…

Gurkha Heritage Rosado Toro

In April, Gurkha Cigar Group, Inc. announced it would be producing the first exclusive cigar to retail members of the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) in its…

Undercrown Dojo Dogma

In 2014, Drew Estate teamed up with the online cigar community Cigar Dojo to create a special blend to commemorate the site’s one year anniversary that…

Cimarron Maduro Robusto

Cigars have been named after any number of things through the years: classic movie monsters, dances and even a component in nuclear weapons. However, a…

Viaje Skull and Bones M?stery (2018)

Eight years ago, Viaje Cigars debuted a line that would eventually come to encompass more than 30 different releases, including multiple sub-lines and one-offs. As…

Romeo y Julieta 1875 Nicaragua Magnum

In 2016, Plasencia Cigars produced the first 100 percent Nicaraguan Romeo y Julieta brand for Altadis U.S.A., the Romeo 505 Nicaragua by Romeo y Julieta, the moniker of…

Tatuaje The Bride

Lets take a walk down memory lane, shall we? All the way back to a simpler time known as 2008, the year the New York Giants…

Room101 Farce Connecticut Super Toro

While many people in the cigar industry were surprised when Matt Booth parted ways with Davidoff of Geneva USA and left the cigar business in early…