Cigar Aficionado

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Rocky Patel built his Indian Tabac cigar with endless trips to American tobacconists and Honduran cigar factories. Now he launches a self-named brand.

The new U.S. travel restrictions are adversely affecting the Cuban economy. But the cigars are getting better.

This couldn't be a better time to be putting cigars back in the spotlight. As of mid-December, the premium cigar market in the United States was on track to exceed 300 million units in 2004, an increase of more than 15 percent over 2003, …

Dear Marvin, What propels human beings to smoke tobacco? What perpetuates the so-called filthy habit many of us richly enjoy? I'm convinced cigar smoking will continue to exist for centuries to come. As long as our society is rabidly …

So you're a vinyl snob. You're the purist music collector for whom the thought of an ever-growing stack of hot wax inspires a warm glowing feeling deep within the soul. But there's one problem: while vinyl records may be great for …

Back before JFK supposedly finished the fashion by going bareheaded to his inauguration, you could always tell a man by his hat. Nowhere was this more true than in the movies. The Westerns always had their white-hat-equals-hero-black-hat-e…

For the seasoned traveler who sees five-star hotels as a been-there-done-that experience without the comfort or space of home, but doesn't relish the headaches of owning a vacation house, a new vacation trend is burgeoning: members-only …

A mysterious woman slides into the next seat at the casino table wearing a backless red dress. Coyly smiling at you, she takes a smoke from her handbag and places it to her lips. You suavely remove your S.T. Dupont lighter from the breast …

Come Valentine's Day, resist the urge to reach for the standard-issue, cellophane-wrapped heart full of ordinary chocolates and treat the object of your desire with something truly precious: gourmet chocolate. For this endeavor, strike the …

The rumblings in the golf world for the last couple of years have been that irons would soon force a technological breakthrough to rival the sea changes visited upon the game by oversized titanium drivers and balls with enhanced aerodynami…

Once upon a time, before the Swiss seemed to have the monopoly on great watches, a little Saxon town distinguished itself as a center of precision horology. From 1845, Glashütte, Germany, made timepieces of great beauty and innovation …

With the Detroit Lions ensconced in a new downtown stadium, there's little reason to return to the old Pontiac Silverdome. So imagine our surprise when an invitation arrived to visit the old, domed field for a chance to drive the new …

Twenty-seven people sit cross-legged on the floor of a modified Boeing 727, nervously awaiting a sensation that until recently few other than astronauts had ever experienced. The pilot takes the aircraft into a steep (45-degree) climb and …

Craig Stadler has found new wealth and happiness on the Champions Tour, where he won five times and topped the money list in 2004

A couple of seasons ago Armagnac took a brief star turn on television's "The Sopranos" as the subject of an importing scheme by the restaurateur Artie Bucco, who pronounces the venerable French brandy "the next vodka.