Watch The Consensus Live Show (2 P.M. CST)
At 2 p.m. I’ll unveil the 2017 version of The Consensus, live on Facebook. In addition, I’ll take your questions, give away a couple Boveda…
2017 Awards: Top 25
We reviewed nearly 300 cigars in 2017. As is often the case with halfwheel, it’s a wide range of items from the biggest releases of…
Watch The Top 25 Cigars Live Show (2 P.M. CST)
That’s right, we’ll be unveiling our Top 25 cigars for 2017 live, on Facebook. In addition to unveiling our list, we’ll be giving away three…
2017 Awards: Company of the Year
For the most part, this was not a year of bold risks, massive capital expenditures or complete reboots. Instead, thanks to reasons FDA-related and not,…
2017 Awards: Factory of the Year
90. 92. 89. 91. 87. 87. 91. 88. 92. 90. Those are the scores for new cigars from the Cigars Davidoff factory in 2017, an…
A Note About New Company of the Year
There will not be an award for new company of the year in 2017, at least not from this site. We’ve given the award each…
2017 Awards: Packaging Top 10
It’s the second full week of January and as such that means it’s time for halfwheel’s annual awards. Unlike most publications, we give a handful of…
On18 (Programming Notes)
As I have explained many times before, January 1 is always a special day for halfwheel. Today marks the beginning of the seventh year of…
Submit a Top Cigar List for The Consensus 2017
It’s December which means a lot of things, but at halfwheel it means we are full into preparation for our awards which are given out in…
InterTabac 2017: Day 2
Somehow, I write this more hungover than I was for yesterday’s post. My Saturday started visiting with a few people, including my one planned meeting…
InterTabac 2017: Day 1
Earlier this week, the InterTabac organizers sent out an email explaining there was construction at the Westfalenhallen, the site where the trade fair takes place….
