Category: Cigar Quality
It’s a nice night, and you want to spend it smoking a cigar while enjoying the cool breeze outside. Or maybe you want to settle in in your favorite comfortable chair and watch a good movie or read a book while smoking a cigar. Then you realize a possibility – that the only cigars you have at home might have “gone bad!”
Is this scenario even possible? Definitely! While you may not want to think about cigars going bad, it does happen – and it ...
Cigars, just like wine will taste better if they are lit after some time. This is not to say that a cigar is not worth it if it is immediately lit by anyone who may have one. It is merely stating a fact that a cigar will improve in its taste and quality after some years of proper storage since this is how the tobacco leave contents prosper with regards to quality tasting cigars.
To some people, it would be best to check out the labels that they come with. The years specified in each ...
When a manufacturer comes up with a new cigar blend, there is no doubt that packaging is taken into consideration. This actually applies to almost any other kind of product. Experts in the field of marketing know that how you package a product can affect how it is perceived by customers.
For cigars, packaging can affect the price. Cigar.com talked about this earlier this year:
Many brands have extravagant packaging, most of which are very expensive. So exactly how much does the packaging affect ...
Any decent cigar enthusiast would grab the chance to smoke a Cuban. Unfortunately for those in the United States, the trade embargo that was put in place many many years ago still prohibits Cuban cigars in U.S. soil. While you may be able to purchase Cubans from the Internet anytime you wish to do so, you never know if what you are getting are real Cubans or whether they are of good quality. So what is your next option?
Go up north and cross the border into ...
It seems to me that this cigar is all the rave today. Everywhere you go, you’ll hear about the Tatuaje Black. I have not had the chance to try one myself but if I were to base my decision on the personal reviews that I have encountered online, I would have to get me several pieces of this cigar.
So what is the Tatuaje Black all about? When it comes to the physical appearance, it makes the top of the list. The Cigar Spy says:
First things ...
In the last post we took a look at two important things when it comes to organizing blind tasting events for cigars. They were preparation and the visual aspect of cigars. Let us take a look at more things to consider when blind tasting cigars.
Aside from assessing the wrapper of the cigar that you are blind tasting, try to get a feel of
how the cigar was made. Roll your fingers around the diameter and across the length of the cigar. Feel for sports which are soft, this means that the packing was not done perfectly. ...
In the last post, we took a look at how to tell if the box of Cubans that you are looking at is real. Here are other ways by which you can tell if your Cuban is real.
As in other things, the best way to check if a product is genuine or otherwise is to
look for possible defects. What defects can you find in a box of fake Cubans? The truth is that the real Cuban cigars should be of the same exact length. Manufacturers of real Cubans are ...
Earlier in this month, I posted an entry on why Cubans are considered illegal in the United States. Though many of us know that they are illegal, it does not mean that no one can get their hands on some. Indeed, there are ways and means by which one can acquire some Cuban cigars. However, the fact that Cubans are rare and hard to get your hands on (at least in the United States) also means that there are a lot of unscrupulous and enterprising groups that take ...
For most people, hearing the word manufacture is usually synonymous towards machinery doing all the work with the supervision of humans to create quality made cigars that smokers all over the world are demanding. Cigar preparation is an art, something that needs training for cigars to retain their quality once bought. Millions of cigars are manufactured each year, the life span of which does not really impact them since the longer they are stored, the better to smoke them with.
A lot of this lies in the type of tobacco leaves in use. ...
Mention cigars and a person would instantly associate it with Cuban cigars. Cuban cigars are acclaimed to be the best hand rolled tobacco in the world, being the preferred country where such finely prepared tobacco leaves are found. Cigar production is controlled by the Cuban government where they are rolled in the various cigar factories that are existent in the country of Cuba.
Habanos SA and Cubatabaco are known to be the leading groups that handle the manufacturing and distribution of their finest roles ...
