My office is closed today, due to the approach of Hurricane Sandy. Outside the wind is howling and the water is rising, and we’re waiting for the worst to come later tonight. Hurricanes …
The smoke police want to take away Santa’s pipe. I discovered this while reading today’s New York Post, which had a small news item about Canadian author Pamela McCall self-publishing a …
It’s always been surprising to me how little scholarship there is on the subject of vintage cigars. Look at vintage wines, or antique furniture or other period-piece hobbies. They’re …
Grab a cigar and a fine beverage, and get ready to sit back and take in a game. The Major League Baseball playoffs begin today. A baseball game offers the perfect tonic for a cigar. …
On Friday I had a smoke with Steve Saka, the chief executive officer of Drew Estate, which makes millions of cigars by hand in Nicaragua. The company’s biggest brand is Acid, but the one …
After many months of effort by the entire Cigar Aficionado staff, our 20th Anniversary issue is complete. It reached newsstands at the end of August, and on Wednesday, September 12, we …
It is a little hard to describe the pride we feel here at Cigar Aficionado. Twenty years ago, the world kept telling us that it was a bad idea to launch a cigar magazine, that there was no …
I’m sitting atop 666 Fifth Avenue, gazing out across glorious Central Park as the sun goes down in the full flush of midsummer and I think, “What would make this scenario even better? I’…
A week from today I’ll be landing in Orlando to join our editorial team from Cigar Aficionado at the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers trade show, which begins next Friday and …
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