Want to find out where Vin Lee likes to smoke an Opus X while eating a Kobe burger? Check out the profile in Haute Living on the CEO of the Beverly Hills Cigar Club. Lee gives some insights into where and what he eats at home in Los Angeles and other aspects of living the [...]
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Visit De La Concha on September 23, 2010 to dine and smoke with master cigar maker Jose Fuego. He will be on hand to promote his latest cigar, the Xikar HC series. The in-store dinner starts at 8 PM and includes a three-course meal from Rue 57 and a full open bar. Tickets cost $125 [...]
Habanos S.A. has just released the tenth volume of the Habanos Collection. The 2010 edition has the Bolivar Gran Belicoso front and center. The cigar was made at the Partagas factory in Havana and is 7 1/8 inches long with a 54 ring gauge. Known as the “rodolpho” size in Cuban cigar factories, only the [...]
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The biggest cigar in the world is back! To protest the executive order issued by Orange County Mayor Richard T. Crotty that prohibits tobacco use in any workplace or public area on or in county property, Corona Cigar Co. has put the largest cigar in the world on display. I ran into this mammoth stick [...]
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Gigantes? Gordos? Grandes? Call them what you want, but they’re 6 inches long and have a ring gauge of 60. These are the hot new sizes in the cigar market, according to Cigar Aficionado, and the amount 6×60 cigars hitting retailer shelves is on the rise, particularly based on what came out last week at [...]
The much anticipated 11th Annual Draper’s Little Puff in Washington DC is quickly approaching. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at the W. Curtis Draper website. If you’re going to be in the DC area on Friday, September 24, 2010, you should go to this worthwhile event. The “Little Puff” is W. Curtis Draper’s, Washington DC’s premier [...]
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Back Story: Serie JJ range was developed by Don Pepín Garcia and his son Jaime García. Medium- to full-bodied, the wrapper is a Nicaraguan Corojo oscuro, and the binder/filler is Nicaraguan. Packed in plain boxes of 24 except for the Salomon, which comes in boxes of five. The band is similar to the “Blue Label”, [...]
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While I don’t want to bring up “October” to folks who are just getting over summer, the Single Malt & Scotch Whiskey Extravaganza is coming up, starting in Chicago on October 7 and running through Boston, Philly, San Francisco, and LA.
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You’d think the man man who’s family once owned the H. Upmann Factory in Havana, Cuba would have gotten sick of cigars. But Benjamin “Benji” Menendez is just getting started. The 74-year-old cigar maker saw his family’s company take by Castro and now runs General Cigar, Co. making some of the finest cigars in the [...]
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