Cigar Aficionado

When cigars taste bitter, and what you can do about it Bitterness is a key component in the taste of many foods and beverages--coffee, beer, olives, even some kinds of...

Aging your cigars--why and when Aging your cigars is exactly what the name suggests--you put your cigars away for a certain period of time and let them rest, undisturbed, while...

It shouldn’t happen, and it especially shouldn’t happen if you’re a savvy smoker who pays attention to and keeps tracks of the attributes of the cigars you like, but every...

Guillotine, V, punch--there are many ways to prepare a premium cigar for smoking. In a pinch, you can even use scissors or a knife…and if you’re really desperate, your teeth....

When you come across a cigar as fully dressed as the Fuente Anejo, whether you should leave all the wrappings on or take them off is a logical question. The...

For long-term storage of premium cigars, sticking them in a freezer might seem to make some sense. As long as you put them in and leave them there, it’s not...

Small-batch cigars occupy a small segment of the cigar market, and that’s exactly what their manufacturers intend them to do. These cigars are created in limited quantities, often very limited...

You’ll see some cigars described as having “tooth” or a “toothy wrapper”. This means that these cigars have tiny, concentrated pockets of oil in their wrappers. All tobacco contains oil;...

Bull-SCHIP? You’d have to be living under a rock these days not to know about the federal legislation that affects what you pay for cigars that took effect on April...