Cigar Tasting: Finding the Coffee
Learning to taste cigars isn’t about chasing someone else’s notes. It’s about building the vocabulary to name what your taste buds, nose, and memory are already telling you. Finding the coffee is a big deal. But once you find it, don’t stop there. Ask what it’s doing.
Review: Cayman Broadside Gordo
The Cayman Broadside Gordo doesn’t treat its name like decoration. It gathers itself, loads up, and hits you with a broadside. This is bold, powerful, complex, and definitely one you want to be sitting down for.
Review: Lanuza Mechudo
The Mechudo is a perfect demonstration of Raul Lanuza’s range. Where the Super Sea Monkeys was about controlled chaos, the Mechudo is about composure, containment, and power held in check.
Review: Paul Stulac Miami Style
This Paul Stulac Miami Style is a composed, grown-up smoke with relaxed Little Havana energy. It starts easy, but reminds you that it is unmistakably a Paul Stulac cigar.
Curivari Selección Privada Maduro Magnificos
The Curivari Selección Privada Maduro Magnificos opens with a cannon shot of Nicaraguan energy, then slowly settles into balance, refinement, and composure. With over 14 months of aging, this cigar is transcendent.
Keeping Cigars Human
A cigar just asks to be smoked and shared from time to time. That’s where cigar culture is at its best. Not when knowledge is a badge, but when knowledge gets passed along freely.
Review: Hound Cigars Reserva Maduro
The Hound Reserva Maduro moves like its name. It puts its nose down, and keeps working through the final draw, still searching, still moving, still holding itself together. Like a bloodhound. @houndcigar.co
Review: Cayman Mariner
The Mariner carries plenty of weight, but it never needs to throw that weight around. It stays smooth, articulate, directional, and controlled from the first puff to the nub.
Review: Cuban Partagas Serie D No. 4
The Partagás Serie D No. 4 looks like it has nothing to prove, then lights with a jolt. Sweetness hits, body swells, activity starts high, and the cigar never really settles down. Complex from foot to nub.
Review: Ferio Tego Summa Toro
I originally reviewed this in April, and it felt like a finished composition. But returning to it now, it felt like the doors had opened and the room had filled. The same core remained, but everything around it now moved with ceremony, complexity, and intent.
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Good Is Good, No Matter What It Costs
Cigar culture can let luxury, scarcity, and presentation do too much of the judging before the cigar is ever lit. Price may shape the context, but it doesn’t get to decide the experience.
Review: Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 2
I thought this was a simple, enjoyable cigar—something I’d reach for without thinking twice. But every time I smoked it, something didn’t quite line up. It wasn’t until I sat with it that it clicked. This cigar isn’t simple at all. I just had to give it the time to show me what it was…
