Plasencia Reserva Original Toro: History in the smoking?
What does five generations and 150 years experience in the world of tobacco bring to a cigar? I smoked the Plasencia Reserva Original Toro to try and find out.
Tagged: New World cigar
Gurkha 15 Year Old Koi Perfecto: Could this cigar be the one?
For me, the Gurkha cigar brand has always seemed to be style over substance. I’ll be the first to admit that I haven’t smoked many of them, and those that I have, including the...
My top nine best cigars of 2021
It’s the end of the year and time for my Top Nine Best Cigars of 2021. There are some old favourites as well as new discoveries and a couple of heartbreakers.
A wonderful evening with two Ambassadors
On a cold winters evening in November James and Rosalie Barber of James Barber’s Tobacconist invited me to their Doscientos event with the Nicaraguan Ambassador
Casa Turrent 1880 Series Double Claro: Another great claro wrapper?
Having recently enjoyed some claro wrapper cigars, I wondered if the Casa Turrent 1880 Series Double Claro, a Mexican puro, would put another tick in this box
Working week of cigars: Time flies when you’re keeping busy
Week 46 has been unusually busy for me as I’ve been trying to get ahead so I can take some time off, so I only had three smokes in this working week of cigars.
WK45 Cigars: Sometimes less is more
Sometimes life gets in the way of your cigar smoking plans. That doesn’t mean you have to deny yourself or not savour every moment that you spend with a cigar
I didn’t expect this in my week of cigar smoking…
I had my cigar smoking all planned out for the first week of November, cocktails and all, but as is the way with the best laid plans, they very quickly went awry.
La Invicta Nicaraguan Robusto: A full flavoured budget cigar
The La Invicta Nicaraguan robusto is a budget friendly, hand made, long filler cigar that shows all the flavours of a Nicaraguan cigar. But is it worth smoking?
Cigars I smoked October 25th to 31st – Time to go crazy!
In the run up to Halloween, you need to let your hair down a bit and what better way than have some fun and go to extremes. The cigars I smoked this week were...
