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PERFECT PAIRINGS MY FATHER LA OPULENCIA / GODIVA CHOCOLATE LIQUEUR With boozy liquid Godiva chocolate and the latest release from My Father cigars, you couldn’t mess this up if you tried.
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PERFECT PAIRINGS ESPINOSA LARANJA RESERVA CAIXA / SAMUEL ADAMS THIRTEENTH HOUR After tasting the original Samuel Adams Thirteenth Hour in Boston five years ago, a chance encounter brought it back to the forefront.
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TRIBUTE TO GILBERTO OLIVA, SR.
Follow along as we eat and drink our way through Boston. Friends and family help us find our way as we seek out a place to smoke a cigar in one of the country’s most cigar-unfriendly cities.
He was the driving force behind the scenes of the Oliva Cigar Company. See what his family, friends, and colleagues had to say about this master tobacco man.
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TRIBUTE TO JOSÉ ORLANDO PADRÓN
We re-examined and re-smoked the highest rated cigars of 2017 to come up with the 25 best cigars of the year. Take a look at our ranking and let us know what you think of our pick for Cigar of the Year!
See what some of his closest peers and friends had to say about the founder and patriarch of one of the world’s great cigar companies.
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FEEDBACK WHAT’S BURNIN’ SMOKING HOT CIGAR SNOB OPPOSITES ATTRACT
TWITTER SCOREBOARD CRA UPDATE EVENT COVERAGE 100 CIGARS UNDER THE STARS AT SABOR HAVANA 102 SABOR HAVANA’S SMOKE THIS 2017 104 DAVIDOFF LOUNGE GRAND OPENING AT SMOKE INN
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In the span of about 10 days in December 2017, the cigar world lost two legendary figures. José Orlando Padrón and Gilberto Oliva, Sr.’s life’s work on the business of growing tobacco and manufacturing premium cigars helped pave the way for what is arguably the hottest tobacco growing region in the world. They were visionaries who saw the future of Nicaraguan tobacco well before most. Over the years, I spent a fair amount of time with Orlando Padrón and I cherish those moments when it was just him and me and a cigar. But my relationship with Don Gilberto Oliva, Sr. goes much further back. In fact, this publication would not exist if not for him. After all, it was his son José Oliva who in 1995 handed me a Gilberto Oliva cigar and gave me a quick lesson on how to cut and light it. It was my first cigar and I was smoking it mostly to appease my friend who was proud of his dad’s new brand. That mild Nicaraguan cigar covered with an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper started my love affair with cigars, which continues to this day. Don Gilberto was a humble, quiet, but confident man. From the first time I met him in the mid-90s until just a couple of years ago, he spent most of his time in Nicaragua tending to the family business. He did not take vacations; didn’t believe in them. He did not see the value in taking time away from work to “go around acting foolish and doing things you don’t normally do.” At that age, I didn’t know if the man was serious, joking or completely out of his mind. It was a shock to my system; since my father worked for Eastern Airlines for most of my childhood, I was a traveling fool. And in his eyes I was quite a fool, wasting all that time messing around in airports and visiting other places instead of getting down to the business of making a life for myself. He seldom came home due to his disdain for taking time off. But when he did, we’d enjoy a cigar on the Olivas’ modest terrace in Hialeah and talk mostly about tobacco or business. Or rather, he’d listen to José and me talk, interjecting to make corrections when he thought we were off base. I was a young adult with a passion for databases and programming, but I loved the terrace topics. Little did I know that, 10 years later, my dad and I would launch this magazine and I would subconsciously apply many of the lessons I learned about the cigar business on that terrace. As I get older and my hard drive is forced to archive memories in harder-to-reach places, I find myself in a race against time to hold on to those rare moments with Don Gilberto. It’s an interesting catch 22; if he hadn’t been so intense and disciplined about
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working and never taking time off, I’d have more memories of him from those days. But had he been more lackadaisical about work and been home more often, I probably would not have been so keen to listen when he spoke. Seeing the Oliva and Padrón families express their love for the men that led them to this point painted an instant snapshot of each man’s life. They were business leaders, but more importantly, they were patriarchs who left behind united, caring families with an overwhelming sense of love and pride for their clan. Rest in peace,
Erik Calviño ecalvino@cigarsnobmag.com
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Balmoral AĂąejo XO cigars are the result of an intensive blending process with exceptionally aged tobaccos: an AĂąejo blend crowned with a sungrown Arapiraca wrapper. After blending the cigar, it took another 6 months of aging to marry all its flavors. Let yourself be seduced by notes of cedar wood, cacao, spices and an underlying sweetness.
Torpedo Mk52 | Gran Toro | Rothschild Masivo | Corona | Petit Robusto FT
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CASA DE MONTECRISTO ACQUIRES TAMPA HUMIDOR Casa de Montecristo announced its acquisition of Tampa Humidor, which readers of the magazine might recognize as the cigar retailer that hosts the annual Tampa Cigar Bash. With a second Tampa Humidor location under construction, these will be the eighteenth and nineteenth brick-and-mortar lounges for Casa de Montecristo since the program began in 2008. Tampa Humidor owner Mike Howe is set to join the Casa de Montecristo team.
DAVIDOFF CIGARS TURNS 50
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focuses on warning labels.
TABAQUERO BY HAMLET SHIPS IN CULEBRA
According to Halfwheel, “... the Texas complaint argues that the warning label requirements – and the process FDA went about deciding said requirements – is a violation of various laws including the first amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act, a law which requires the government to go through certain steps before introducing new laws.”
Rocky Patel Premium Cigars announced that its Tabaquero by Hamlet Paredes brand would begin shipping a culebra in January 2018. The traditional format interlocks three long, thin cigars in a shape that looks something like a braid.
Other lawsuits filed by cigar industry players have made broader complaints that include first-amendment rights violations, among others.
CUELLAR BROUGHT UNDER THE VILLIGER BRAND UMBRELLA
Tabaquero made appearances in a culebra format last year, though it was limited to event and promotional use. Hamlet also made “giant culebras” at promotional events when he first joined the Rocky Patel stable in 2015.
Davidoff Cigars is celebrating its 50th birthday with a series of events and specially commissioned cigars and accessories. “This is a very special year for us,” said Oettinger Davidoff AG’s senior VP and CMO Charles Awad. “We look back with pride on 50 years of creating exceptional, original cigars and accessories, but more importantly, we look forward with a great sense of exhilaration to new, unknown horizons that will bring exciting, undiscovered experiences for those who love cigars.” Five Davidoff cigars will be released with commemorative 50th anniversary white bands, though the blends will remain unchanged. Those five cigars, available in the first quarter of 2018, are the Davidoff Signature No. 2, Davidoff Signature 2000, Davidoff Aniversario Special R, Davidoff Aniversario No. 3 and Davidoff Aniversario Entreacto. Those cigars will all get their original bands
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“I would roll a three-foot giant culebra,” said Hamlet in a press release. “We would raffle off the giant cigar, but it was not meant to be smoked. [It] was meant to display in your man cave.” The new Tabaquero Culebra, which is made at Rocky Patel’s TaviCusa factory in Estelí, is 8 inches long – about 2 inches more than a typical culebra – and is packaged in red coffins. Each cigar will retail for $36.
TEXAS TOBACCONISTS SUE THE FDA Halfwheel.com reported that Dallas retailer En Fuego Tobacco Shop, League City-based El Cubano Cigars, and the Texas Cigar Merchants Association filed a lawsuit against the FDA over premium cigar regulation. Specifically, the suit relates to the FDA’s requirements on warning labels for cigar packaging. Unlike the already existing lawsuit filed by three national cigar trade groups, this lawsuit
Cuellar has always been part of the Villiger Cigars portfolio, but there wasn’t any indication of that on the brand’s packaging. The cigar will now be known as Villiger Cuellar Connecticut Kreme. The move is part of a broader effort at Villiger to streamline its branding. In a press release, Villiger North America president René Castañeda said of the Cuellar brand, “Its extremely creamy profile, combined with just a hint of spiciness, has made the brand a hit with consumers. This small change of adding the ‘Villiger’ name on band and packaging will help consumers better identify it as a Villiger brand.” Made at Tabacalera Palma in the Dominican Republic, the Villiger Cuellar Connecticut Kreme features a Connecticut shade wrapper and is available in four vitolas ranging in price from $6.00 to $7.00.
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THE GREAT SMOKE On February 8, SmokeInn will kick off its 12th annual The Great Smoke event. In 2015, the event moved to a new location to accommodate a growing crowd. In 2017, the event expanded by a day. Already, the event has gotten so popular that SmokeInn is adding yet another day to the event calendar (now four total) and moving the “main event” to the South Florida Fairgrounds. A ticket gets you a bag of premium cigars, accessories, and access to that main event at the fairgrounds, which will feature more than 40 cigar brands and be attended by some of their owners, blenders and reps. The rest of the weekend is loaded with parties at SmokeInn, steakhouse dinners, a night at a strip club and a brunch. Visit thegreatsmoke.com for more info.
AGIO OPENS U.S.A. CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS A press release issued by Drew Estate at the tail end of 2017 announced the opening of the Royal Agio Cigars U.S.A. headquarters in Bradenton, Florida. The two companies entered into a partnership in 2014, with Drew Estate handling Agio distribution in the U.S. and Agio taking on Drew Estate distribution in Europe. But now, as Agio looks to deepen its foothold in the U.S. market, Agio has set up its own American headquarters on Florida’s gulf coast and that U.S. distribution agreement ended December 18, 2017 (though the distribution partnership in Europe will continue). “We have been honored to be part of the Drew Estate family,” said Royal Agio U.S.A. president George Margioukla. “We are grateful for the enthusiastic support and significant contributions made on behalf of the Drew Estate organization that have helped improve distribution and awareness for our premium cigar brands over the past three and a half years. Thanks in large part to these efforts, Royal Agio Cigars is now in a position to strengthen our U.S. presence and enhance direct support for our highly-valued trade partners and consumers.”
CIGAR SNOB LAUNCHES A PODCAST It’s not often that we use this section of the magazine to talk about ourselves, but we have something special going on and figured it was as good a time as any to make an exception. Not too long ago, we launched a podcast. That’s right… it’s all the fun of reading Cigar Snob, but for your ears! The podcasts put out new episodes about every week. They include interviews with cigar makers, and other special content you won’t get here, but will love if you enjoy this magazine. That’s talk of cigars, booze, travel, gadgets, music, art, and culture. Just search for “Cigar Snob Podcast” on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music or Soundcloud. You can also listen from your browser at cigarsnobmag.com/podcast.
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My Father La Opulencia Godiva Milk Chocolate Liqueur
We love it when a good pairing comes together accidentally and knocks your socks off. Every year during the holidays, the García family of My Father Cigars graciously sends our staff two boxes of their newest releases. This year, they sent a box of the My Father La Opulencia, an extension to the highly sought after My Father line, and a box of Vegas Cubanas, one of the Garcías’ original brands from their days making cigars in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, which they resurrected in 2017. We promptly split the cigars amongst our editorial and creative teams and everyone was happy, except accounting. In similar fashion, our printer sends presents every year, but their gifts are of the boozy variety. Never before had both gifts arrived on the same day. Not ones to interfere with fate, we agreed that we would enjoy the My Father cigars with whatever booze was in the gift basket from the printer. Usually, it’s red wine but this year they threw us a curveball and sent a bottle of Godiva Milk Chocolate Liqueur. What happened next derailed any possible chances of a productive day at Cigar Snob HQ. Everyone opted for the My Father La Opulencia (in Toro) and fired them up while we chilled the liqueur. By the time the Godiva was ready, we were halfway through the cigars.
THE PAIRING The cigar is ultra-flavorful with notes of roasted almonds, cocoa, and earth along a strong pepper backbone. Immediately, the Godiva Milk Chocolate Liqueur coats your palate with a silky, slightly boozy chocolate that binds to the smoke, knocking the pepper and earth into next week. This brings out the roasted almonds to mingle with the chocolate and booze in beautiful ways. The liqueur is rich and sweet, so a little goes a long way. We were halfway through our cigars when we introduced the liqueur into the mix. Unless you have an insatiable sweet tooth, we recommend you do the same. LOCATION: Neme Verde,Gastro Waterfront Bar, Miami Dining(nemegastrobar.com) and Bar at Perez Art Museum Miami (pamm.org/dining) JAN / FEB 2018 | CIGAR SNOB |
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Revolutionary history, incredible food, and Beantown’s beatdown of its own cigar scene Massachusetts State House
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The view from one corner of Boston Common; the basement bar at Stoddard’s; a Cape Cod Mule; the Stoddard’s French Dip sandwich with onion rings
s you walk through the Boston Common, the unmistakable smell of weed rears its head. This might bother you. It might not. But if you’re a cigar smoker mulling over the idea that it’s easier to consume pot on your visit to Boston than to enjoy a cigar — even in the isolation of a cigar shop — something about that smell gnaws at you. Light your cigar in Boston Common, after all, and you have hefty fines to worry about.
ther our art director Andy Astencio nor I had ever been, so we had a whole lot of ground to cover, and we’d need to look farther outside the cigar world than usual for help. Luckily, we have plenty of friends in town.
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What Boston lacks in cigars it more than makes up for in history. Few American cities are as loaded with it as Beantown. Maybe it’s fitting that cigars be so restricted here. Isn’t this, increasingly, where the country is headed? We’re at a point in our history where cigars are up against the ropes, and I haven’t yet visited a city that made for a better avatar of that trend than Boston.
After landing in Boston, we headed into Beacon Hill to drop our luggage off before getting the day started in earnest. Beacon Hill is a picturesque neighborhood covering about a sixth of a square mile on the Charles River between the Boston Common and the West End neighborhood. The area made for a perfect home base throughout the trip, and it was great to end each day coming back to such a central location that includes landmarks like the Massachusetts State House and the Granary Burial Ground — where you’ll find the graves of Paul Revere, Crispus Attucks, Sam Adams, John Hancock, and a slew of other patriots.
Still, there’s a lot to love about this place. Nei-
Having arrived on a connecting flight, we knew
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we’d need to refuel — especially considering we were working up the nerve to do a whole lot of walking in frigid temperatures and light rain. So we crossed the Boston Common to Stoddard’s Fine Food & Ale , which friends had recommended for lunch. Stoddard’s is itself of some historical significance. The building it occupies is among the oldest in the city, since its granite construction enabled it to survive the Great Fire of 1872. That fire destroyed 800 structures between the Boston Common and the waterfront. Stoddard’s takes its name from a previous occupant of this location, Stoddard’s Bait and Tackle, which was the fourth business to incorporate in the United States. I know all of this to be true because I read it in what I trust is a very accurate historical account on the back of the Stoddard’s menu. Speaking of the menu, we were glad to find that our friends hadn’t steered us wrong for the first meal of our trip. Andy had the Stoddard’s
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: L.J. Peretti, the one and only cigar shop in Boston; the dining room and stage at The Beehive; Poe out for a stroll; Freedom Trail marker; Shakshuka at Milkweed Burger; I went with the French Dip Sandwich, which was loaded with perfectly cooked beef and served with onion rings. All of that was washed down with a Cape Cod Mule, which is a Moscow Mule with some cranberry tacked onto the typical recipe. Staff at Stoddard’s recommended we check out Caffe Nero to get our coffee fix. The Northeastern coffee chain has several Boston locations, including the one we stopped into on Washington Street. From there, we headed to the south end of the Boston Common. The park is separated from the Boston Public Garden by Charles Street, and both public spaces have Boylston as their southern border. Where Charles and Boylston intersect, you’ll find L.J. Peretti Co. , the last remaining full-fledged tobacconist in the city of Boston (there are others in the metro area). It’s also one of the country’s oldest tobacconists, having been in business 145 years (even operating as a cigar factory for a long stretch)
and existing in its current location 78 years. After we had a look around the front of the store and picked up a few of the house blend cigars, owner and president Stephen Willett led us to the back of the shop, where he was personally working on prepping pipe tobacco blends. The selection here is great, and it’s excellent to have a knowledgeable tobacconist right on the Boston Common. But — especially when it’s too cold out to even entertain the idea of risking fines by smoking on the sidewalk or in a public park — it’s deflating to be told at a shop with this much expertise and history about just how limited the smoking options are for travelers here. The only place to smoke indoors, Stephen said, is Stanza dei Sigari, a lounge in Boston’s heavily Italian North End neighborhood. We’d heard a lot about Stanza, and we would hear that name over and over throughout the rest of our trip. After packing up our cigars and saying our
goodbyes, it was time to go about the business of being professional tourists. And no touristy walk around the Boston Common is complete without a visit to one of the most iconic bars in America: Cheers . This bar — back when it was still called Bull & Finch Pub — inspired the timeless NBC sitcom Cheers, which featured one of the best ensemble casts in TV comedy, and launched the spinoff series Frasier. The entrance from the curb on Beacon Street, near the Northwest corner of the Boston Common, will be instantly recognizable to anyone who knows the show. Once you’re inside, though, you’ll realize that not only does everyone not know your name, but you don’t quite know this bar. The real-life pub is much smaller than what you saw on TV, with the bar sitting against one side of a long, narrow room. Barstools along one side, booths on the other. All kinds of knick-knacks adorn the walls, including some obligatory photos and artwork related to the
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GILBERTO OLIVA, SR. 1933 - 2017
FRIENDS, FAMILY AND TOBACCO MEN REFLECT ON THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST CELEBRATED FAMILY OWNED PREMIUM CIGAR BRANDS. JAN / FEB 2018 | CIGAR SNOB |
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JOSÉ ORLANDO PADRÓN 1926 - 2017
THE ICONIC PADRÓN CIGAR FAMILY PATRIARCH AND NICARAGUAN CIGAR PIONEER IS REMEMBERED BY SOME OF THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BEST. JAN / FEB 2018 | CIGAR SNOB |
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Impeccably box-pressed and covered with a nearly flawless, reddish brown wrapper. This medium plus strength blend has a core of earth, pepper, and cocoa with a long, slightly sweet finish.
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Beautifully balanced with a core of soft pepper, earth, and oak joined by rich notes of cream, milk chocolate, and roasted almonds. The superb construction consistently delivers a flawless draw and burn with an excellent smoke output. Medium plus strength.
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D O M I N I CA N R E P UBLI C Churchill 7 1/2 54 Ecuador Nicaragua Nicaragua
A flavorful blend with tons of wood and spice accompanied by roasted nuts and leather on the nose. This rustic-looking Churchill is finished with a somewhat mottled, reddish brown wrapper. Provides an easy draw with a medium bodied smoke.
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EVENTS CIGARS UNDER THE STARS AT SABOR HAVANA Doral, Fla.
On the eve of their annual Smoke This! event, Sabor Havana teamed up with Villiger Cigars, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, The Macallan, and Mega Liquors to put on the Cigars Under the Stars dinner. After enjoying Ruth’s Chris steaks, guests were treated to rare Scotches from The Macallan and a guided tasting of Villiger cigars led by Villiger North America’s President Rene Castañeda.
Robert Singer and René Castañeda
René Castañeda, Manny García, Juan González, Jorge Valdés and Rafael del Monte
Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Kurt of the Swiss consulate in U.S.
Gabriel Piñeres, Yerica and Humberto Areas
Julio Morales, Heidi Fuxa, Jeanie Suárez and Juan González
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Barbara and Erik Calviño
Aguiles Legra and Jorge Valdés
Danny Jimenez and Randy Adams
Sonia Castañeda, Luisa Ferrero, Mariana Watcher, María Cristina Arrazola and Bea Schmied
PHOTO CREDIT: Jerome Berry
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EVENTS JOSÉ BLANCO SEMINAR AT EPC CIGARS Miami
José Blanco hosted a tasting seminar in the lounge at E.P. Carrillo’s Little Havana headquarters, walking a group of smokers — some tobacconists, others enthusiasts — through the growing, processing and manufacturing processes using a special cigar with five different wrappers on it as illustration as attendees worked their way through each tobacco.
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David Spirt, Lissette Pérez, Ernesto Pérez-Carrillo III and José Blanco
Elvis Batista
Jerry Gripp, Ernesto Pérez-Carrillo III and Scott Makenzie
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