Black Label Trading Co., established in 2013, was born out of a passion for cigars and a love of Nicaraguan tobacco. James Brown, cigar maker, Sommelier, contemporary artist, adventure traveler and entrepreneur has spent the last several years living in and exploring the tobacco regions of Central America. Royalty, Benediction, […]
We have exciting news. The new owners of the Embassy Cigar Lounge are: Art Bennet Charlie Curry Khalil Karadshi Dave Knapp Rick Spooner Major Spooner Mike Truelove We’ve been making some upgrades to the lounge to include a much larger selection of premium cigars at competitive prices. We’ve also […]
The Embassy Cigar Lounge is pleased to announce that Manuel Inoa, the Master Blender at La Aurora and the man behind La Aurora Cigars’ most sought after blends will be conducting an exclusive blending seminar in the lounge on Friday, 15 April 2016 from 6 –9 PM. This will be […]
CAO is known for their laundry list of 90+ rated blends and for being one of the most innovative brands in the industry. Now with their new release, CAO Pilon, they are resurrecting a seldom used and costly fermentation method, the circular pilon. A standard tobacco pilon is basically a […]
We are excited to announce that we are going to be offering Scotch 101: Scotch tasting and class hosted by Matt Archibald on 29 January. Matt served in the Canadian Army for 13 years and chewed some dirt with plenty of Marines in Helmand and now is a professor at […]
Courtesy of Blind Man’s Puff (Blind tasted by 5 reviewers) Vital Stats: Vitola: Robusto Length: 4.5? Ring Gauge: 50 Country of Origin: Nicaragua Wrapper: Nicaraguan Corojo Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Brazil, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua Factory: My Father Cigar Factory Blender: Nestor Miranda Age: 2 Months Rest Release Date: July 2013 […]
Tasting Notes Courtesy of Casa Fumandas.com Viva Republica is headed by Jason Holly, who is also in charge of product development for Miami Cigar and Co. Their other releases include the Rapture and Guerilla Warfare lines, as well as a line called C4W V-Day Limited Edition Charitable Release, with all […]
Courtesy of Half Wheel: Tasting Notes Courtesy of Half Wheel.Com Country of Origin: Dominican Republic Factory: E. León Jimenes Tabacalera Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra Binder: Dominican Republic & Mexico Filler: Brazil, Dominican Republic & Nicaragua Size: 4 Inches Ring Gauge: 41 Vitola: Petit Corona MSRP: n/a Release Date: April 2013 Number of Cigars Released: 20,000 Total Cigars The Guerrilla Warfare is a well […]
We now have Cigar Aficionado’s Cigar of the Year from Last Year – the Oliva Melanio Serie V back in stock. We also have Cigar Snob’s No. 1 Cigar for 2015 – The My Father El Centurion H2K in stock. What Cigar Aficionado had to say about the Oliva Melanio […]
Submitted by Eric Edelman La Boheme Pittore is a cigar is produced by Boutique Blends the same company that made the Aging Room cigar that was the highest rated non-Cuban cigar by Cigar Aficionado a few years ago. This Dominican cigar has a very limited production run so enjoy it […]