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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.

Tatuaje Skinny Hyde

The original premise of the Tatuaje Monster Series was relatively simple: produce 13 different blends based on 13 different monsters from both classic and modern…

Umbagog Toro Toro

There have been cigars named after people, snakes and even space shuttles, but Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust might be the only cigar company with a cigar…

La Palina Goldie Toro

Before this year, every Goldie cigar sold by La Palina Cigars was rolled by one person: Maria Sierra, one of the first women trained to roll…

Portraits: Robert Caldwell

Two of the five most talked-about cigars of the year have something to do with the person you see below. Robert Caldwell has quickly grown…

Brick House Double Connecticut Toro

There are not many cigar companies that can say they have the only version of a specific cigar on the market at any given time,…

VegaFina Nicaragua Wide Edición Especial

In December 2015, Altadis U.S.A. introduced a new line in its VegaFina brand that incorporated all Nicaraguan tobacco. The appropriately named VegaFina Nicaragua was launched in three…

Wunder|Lust Robusto

Last year, RoMa Craft Tobac released a cigar only in Europe: Wunder|Lust. The versions sold last year had a simple white band that read WUNDER|LUST on the top…

Asylum 13 Oblongata 50 × 5

During the 2017 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Asylum 13 showed off a unique release named Medulla Oblongata, named after the part of the brain…

XIKAR VX2 V-Cut

During the 2017 IPCPR Convention and Trade Show, XIKAR showed off a bigger brother to its VX, appropriately named VX2 V-Cut. While it still uses…

Tatuaje The Michael

Despite attempts from Pete Johnson and others, there is no cigar more associated with the Halloween holiday than those part of Johnson’s Tatuaje Monster Series….

Saint Luis Rey Incas (ER Peru 2014)

While some regions of the world have received many different Edición Regional releases from Habanos S.A. over the years since the program debuted in 2005—think Asia…