Cigar: Rocky Patel Renaissance Origin: Honduras Size: 5 x 50 (Robusto) Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra Wrapper (Aged 4 years!) Binder: Jalapa Valley Nicaragua Filler: Nicaragua Appearance & Construction (18/20): The Rocky Renaissance cigar is a well rolled cigar with a gorgeous wrapper. The label has shades of brown, gold and white which is interesting but on [...]
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Cigar Review: 5 Vegas Limitada
Posted by Barry on February 11th, 2009
Every year 5 Vegas releases a limited edition cigar that is is a different blend every year. The fillers of the smoke are aged at least 5 years and this year the production is limited to 75,000 cigars. If you purchase a box they come packaged as a combination ashtray and humidor which is very [...]
Cigar Review: Davidoff Short Perfecto
Posted by Barry on February 9th, 2009
In the summer of 2006 these were my favorite cigars to smoke. Sitting outside at the Tiki Bar at the Elks club smoking a Short Perfecto and sipping on a drink was the perfect way to relax for me. Sometime in the past couple of years Davidoff quietly changed the blend of these cigars switching [...]
Sunday Update
Posted by Barry on February 8th, 2009
Yesterday was event central for the staff of acigarsmoker.com. We attended a herf for Wounded Warriors at Hudson Valley Cigars in New Windsor, NY. The event was organized by Stogieman who is a regular on the cigar boards and while the majority of the attendees were from Cigar Pass, I attended representing Cigar Outcast. The [...]
Cigar Review: Rocky Patel Winter Blend
Posted by Barry on February 7th, 2009
Today’s smoke comes courtesy of another sponsor Duque Cigars. The Rocky Patel Winter blend is limited to 4,000 boxes and should be available this month. (February 2009). Cigar: Rocky Patel Winter Blend Origin: Honduras Size: 6 x 42 (Corona) Wrapper: Pennsylvania Maduro Binder: Ecuador Filler: Nicaragua Appearance & Construction (20/20): This rich looking cigar has [...]
Cigar Review: CAO LX2 Lancero
Posted by Barry on February 6th, 2009
Today’s post comes courtesy of a new sponsor, CAO Cigars. Originially released as a limited edition the LX2 Lancero came as part of a package that consisted of a limited edition humidor along with 28 lancero smokes. With the lancero growing in popularity CAO will now release the LX2 lancero in March as a regular [...]
Cigar Review: Alec Bradley Tempus
Posted by Barry on February 5th, 2009
I have been spending a lot of time on twitter lately and today’s suggestion comes from a regular reader of acigarsmoker.com via suggestion from the social networking platform. I was surprised to see that I had not done a review of this very hyped smoke that has scored big in magazines around the globe. The [...]
Cigar Review: Don Ramon Maduro
Posted by Barry on February 3rd, 2009
Last week the HJ Bailey Company reached out to me to review a few cigars that they recently came out with as a tribute to the founder of their company. HJ Bailey was founded in 1932 by Raymond Roth and he passed away in 1998. Produced in Honduras by Camacho cigars, these cigars are the [...]
Xikar Defiance Contest Winner….
Posted by Barry on February 2nd, 2009
I want to take the time to thank the 100 people who took their time to leave a comment for the Defiance contest. The cigars and cutter were donated by Xikar and we at acigarsmoker.com thank them for the great prize. I took all 100 entries and ran a random number generator and the # [...]
Reviews Of The Week!
Posted by Barry on February 1st, 2009
When I started my website 10 months ago it was a slow uphill battle to get it where I wanted it to be. Writing about cigars, and pimping your site only gets you so far and I realize that. If it wasn’t for some sites giving me some link love I would still not be [...]
