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Cigar Review: Carlos Toraño Signature Collection Toro |
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Summary:
A rich-flavored, medium-bodied, maduro cigar, with an excellent aroma. A smooth, refined and sophisticated smoke that is extremely consistent.
CE Cigar Rating: 94
Background Information:
The CT Signature Toro is 6 inches long with a 50 ring gauge. The cigar has a sun-grown Brazillian Arapiraca maduro wrapper over a Connecticut Broadleaf binder. The [...] |
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Black Gold: Connecticut Shade Cigar Tobacco Grown in Kentucky |
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Think that the only place in the United States where good cigar tobacco can be grown is Connecticut?
If so, you are mistaken.
Deep in the Bluegrass State, in an area more known for thoroughbred horses and fine bourbon, something unusual is happening. Some fine cigar wrapper tobacco is being grown because of the vision and [...] |
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How to Roll a Cigar, New York Style |
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Bert Shapiro, of Pheasant’s Eye Productions, is a very talented independent filmaker. He makes short films about real people, doing real things.
And he concentrates on ways of life that are vanishing.
Ways of life like rolling cigars by hand in New York City.
Here, courtesy of Pheasant’s Eye, is a look at how a torcedor — [...] |
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Cigar Review: Sancho Panza Double Maduro Quixote |
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Summary:
This Honduran cigar is a medium to full bodied, flavorful and spicy smoke that starts with a peppery note and then settles to become almost as mild as the Cuban Sancho Panza variety. From the half-way point on, there is a pleasant shift in flavor and fullness that leads into a very satisfying [...] |
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Update on the Faked Fidel Castro Photos |
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Ever since I saw the four photos released today in Cuba that show Fidel Castro alive and recovering and are alleged to have been taken yesterday — right down to the hostage-like photo of Fidel holding up a newspaper to display the headline and pinpoint the date — several things have been bothering me.
And one [...] |
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