Cigar Aficionado

As you read our site, cigar reviews or other literature, you’ll come across a range of acronyms and abbreviations. Here’s a handy list of what they mean. Some are technical...

Here’s the next installment of our “The Story Behind” series. Today, we discuss raising Cain and smoking it too! As the name implies, Cain cigars were designed to raise a...

A mild cigar is one that is flavorful but not overpowering. The taste will be smooth, and you’ll enjoy a range of flavors from earthy things like hay and nuts...

We enjoy giving our readers insight into how some of their favorite cigars came to be. Today, let’s take a look at one of the top-selling cigars from noted maker...

Here’s today’s edition of our series “The Story Behind” which gives you an inside look at interesting topics in the world of premium cigars. Diamond Crown is one of the...

In 1740, Captain John Howard Graysmith built a mansion named Graycliff in Nassau, the Bahamas. Graysmith had gained both fame and riches as a pirate of the Caribbean in his...

There comes a time for some cigar companies when reducing the number of lines leads to a better lineup overall. It’s the addition of quality and consistency by the subtraction...

There’s a sweet spot between cigars that are bland and those that blow you away in a bad way. They’re called medium cigars, and there are some fantastic offerings on...

The story has been told often since the late 1950s. Cuba, a land too familiar with war and revolution, was once again “liberated” from a dictatorship, this time the relatively...