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My Thursday morning started off with a visit to the My Father Cigars S.A. factory, an impressive facility right on the Panamerican Highway that I…

At some point, a bus ride to Estelí was in order. Wednesday morning was the day. Our busses were quickly joined by La Policía Nacional,…

I spent five minutes thinking to myself: was the live alpaca the weirdest thing I saw at TPE today? And with that, a few thoughts about…

While there were plenty of cigars smoked on the second day of Puro Sabor 2017, the day was more about experiencing some of the Granada…

Hello from Las Vegas. It’s the latest stop on my seemingly never-ending travel circus. I’m here for the 2017 Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE), which begins…

Last week, Patrick Lagreid and I went to the Puro Sabor festival in Nicaragua. It’s the Nicaraguan cigar festival and we are providing coverage, broken up…

In a few hours, halfwheel’s list of the top 25 cigars for 2016 will be published. I’ve spent the last few months trying to figure out how…

It’s that time of the year. On midnight, Jan. 1, 2012 I turned on halfwheel to the public. While very little of halfwheel’s origins haven’t been told,…

No matter the results of the election, this article starts with the same disclosure: there are much larger issues in America than cigars. That said,…

If you are a subscriber to halfwheel‘s daily email list, you’ve probably noticed a few tweaks in the past couple weeks. Today, you should notice a…

So as you’ve probably seen the other three members of the halfwheel staff write, here is my participation in the Top 3 Things posts we’re…