Cigar Aficionado

Have you ever been to a running of the Kentucky Derby? Talk about high powered horsepower and even more high powered Cigars. Kentucky is known for three things, fast Horses,...

I’m sitting in the desert, staring at a red-crescent moon in a jet blue Arab sky…pecking at the laptop, smoking a $3 Arturo Fuente Curly Head, and glad just to...

“Hey buddy, got any spare change?” I turned to see a disheveled man huddled in the shadows as I walked to my car after a long day in the University...

Cigars have been with us for not just centuries but thousands of years. It’s believed the Mayans smoked a form of cigars two thousand years ago. Since that time cigars...

Tobacco Curing Once harvested, the cut tobacco leaves are tied to cujes and hung in large, aluminum barns for curing. Inside the curing barn, the cigar tobacco will spend up...