December 9th, 2011
One of the brands that will be affected the most after next years deletions is Trinidad. Trinidad has a long and mysterious history, that dates back in 1969. The brand was created in El Laguito, three years after the introduction of the Cohiba brand. Until 1997 when the brand was made commercial, only one cigar [...]
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December 8th, 2011
As s0me of you may have noticed, Cigars.ie had been offline for the past week. No, I didn’t stop smoking, I was not hunted down by Habanos and I wasn’t discouraged by the VAT increase… Corrupt tables, broken database, corrupt files, failed server updates was some of the phrases used to describe the problem. At first [...]
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December 1st, 2011
Its this time of the year again with the day that we have been looking forward just around the corner…
Lets beat the budget blues, the pre-Christmas rush and the hangovers from the work do’s with a good smoking session!
Our Herf for the month of December will be taking place on Tuesday December 13th 2011 in [...]
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November 19th, 2011
I am going to take a break from the review series of the 2012 to smoke a cigar I have been waiting for since last February; the Cohiba 1966 2011 Edicion Limitada. In 1966 the cigars that had become Fidel’s favourites and were only given as diplomatic gifts to heads of states were given a [...]
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November 16th, 2011
Although La Gloria Cubana have produced some remarkable cigars in the last few years, it is still one of the less popular brands in the market today. The brand was eshtablished in the late 19th century, taking a long break around the revolution and being re-introduced to the market in 1965. Many have said that the La [...]
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November 15th, 2011
We have had a break from herfing for over a month, after squeezing three sessions within ten days in October. We smoked in the No Name Bar, along with Rick Green, in Kilkee Co.Clare during the Che do Bheatha Festival and in the No Name Bar along with Bertha Corzo from Havana’s El Laguito and [...]
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November 11th, 2011
A brand that will take a big hit after the 2012 deletions is Vegas Robaina, as two out of the five cigars in their portfolio are due to be axed. One of them is the Clasico, a Lonsdale that was released when the marca was born in 1997. In a brand that is characterized by [...]
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November 5th, 2011
One of the two petit coronas in the 2012 deletion list is the Punch Petit Corona del Punch. The Petit Corona del Punch is one of the two marevas in current production (until 2011) from Punch; the other one is the Punch Coronation, the petit corona we see in every off licence in Ireland either [...]
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October 28th, 2011
The Romeo y Julieta Corona is one of the oldest coronas still in regular production. When the Corona was a popular size, the Romeo was always a safe bet for smokers that preferred a milder smoke. Nowadays, it is one of the many cigars that are often being overlooked.
In my previous experience with this cigar [...]
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October 21st, 2011
Another classic cigar that is being discontinued in 2012 is the Hoyo Churchill. Not so many years ago, when the robusto and corona variations were the popular sizes, Churchill was the size of “celebration” cigars. With the number of large format cigars being limited back then, the sales of the Hoyo Churchill were good. Nowadays, [...]
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