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Easter Sunday… the kids are out in the yard racing after eggs (and nearly killing each other to get them), just as the Lord intended. The ladies of...

Ah, spring - that time of year when the sluggers, hurlers, catchers, and fielders jog out onto the grass once again to give us baseball. If you've ...

Spring is springing and we're looking forward to a huge change in our smoking life: Instead of smoking inside and looking out at the snow, we'll be...

Long before they started releasing award-winning cigars under their own label, the Plasencia family was known for their green thumbs. Weathering re...

Nestor Plasencia and his family may have burst onto the mainstream cigar scene in a big way with their Alma line of cigars in the past few years, b...

Ometepe has to be the most unusual and dramatic location for growing tobacco imaginable. Picture the scene: in the middle of the largest lake in C...

You may accuse us of oversimplifying, but to us, at least three types of people are responsible for a great cigar: the farmer who cultivates and fe...

You might think that just about every premium handmade cigar is blended from organic tobacco. After all, cigars are all about natural tobacco and t...

As a cigar enthusiast, there's nothing cooler than visiting a brand and meeting the people behind cigars we love. But you don't have to write for C...

There's nothing quite like getting to celebrate a promotion with a fantastic premium cigar. After hours and hours of soul-crushing work, you're fin...

As we speak, the future of cigars is being handed over to a new generation of leaders. One by one, the titans of the cigar boom and the resurgence ...