Cigar Aficionado

Whenever you see recommendations for cigars for women online, they generally follow similar lines – milds, flavored smokes, cigars that start with the word “petite,” cigarillos, and the like. The...

One of our anonymous community members recently made the journey from cigar newbie to bona fide cigar lover and we thought it was interesting enough to share the story with...

It’s enough already. All this coddling of beginners.If you’re new to cigars, but you’re tired of mild Connecticuts, this is the post for you. On this list, we’ve got six...

Cigar shapes are a funny thing. Our preferences can come from anywhere, really. It could be something functional, like that fact that we find a particular size and shape easy...

Everybody knows that if you want a really good cigar, you’ve got to leave the gas station smokes behind and spend a little dough. But just spending a bunch of...

There's no denying that boutique cigars are having a bit of a moment right now. After the mainstream resurgence of cigars in the late '00s and early 2010s, small-batch blenders...

Drew Estate has made a name for themselves by doing the unusual. They first made waves in the cigar industry by popularizing premium flavored cigars. Then, they won over the...

Cigar branding is fun stuff. There’s a million ways to go to market when you want to sell cigars. Companies have tried sophistication, intensity, history, family, art, and have invoked...

Unfortunately, we can’t spend our whole lives drunk (well, you can and many have tried, but the results are generally disastrous). Occasionally, we need to get things done, so there’s...