The Godfather • March/April 2022
Features
The Godfather at 50
A movie magnate awakes in his palatial home to find the severed head of his prized stallion tucked between his bloodstained sheets. A motorist tries to hurry through a toll booth …
Stunning Saint Barths
Christopher Columbus, the first foreigner to visit Saint-Barthélemy, “discovered” the island in 1493—and then promptly forgot about it. The speck of dry land had no natural …
Cigars In Paradise
You slip out of the gin-clear waters of Saint-Jean Bay, towel off and pull on a shirt and sandals. A few minutes later (after dodging some Mini Coopers), you step inside the Casa …
Drive For Show
No club in a golf bag provides more excitement, more exhilaration, more exclamation points to a player’s game than the driver. It’s your own personal blunderbuss, your hammer of …
Spring Fling
It’s easy to hunker down in the cold and snow of winter by pouring drinks that are better designed to stave off the weather than to perk up your palate. But now that spring has …
Cigars
My Favorite Cigar
The Oscar-winner explains how cigars help wind down his busy life and shares his go-to smoke.
A Deep Dive Into Our Ratings
Breaking down and analyzing our cigar ratings from the past year.
Connoisseur’s Corner: Cohiba Robusto
This well-aged robusto has near-perfect construction.
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
Editor's Note: Our Favorite Movie
Just the other day I picked up the phone and called the Godfather’s father, Francis Ford Coppola. I had one important question for him. I wanted to know how he felt today looking …
The Good Life
Les Fines Lames Knife Cutters
Historically, knife cigar cutters that fold have come with foibles for a number of reasons: The action is awkward, the cut, sloppy and the blade crushes the cigar head in the …
TAG Heuer Autavia 60th Anniversary
Even before Steve McQueen made TAG Heuer’s square Monaco famous in the 1971 racing film Le Mans, the brand’s Autavia had become a go-to watch for some of that period’s most …
Irish Coffee
Once upon a late St. Patrick’s Day evening, two companions and I changed our orders from pints of Smithwick’s ale to mugs of Irish Coffee, and an argument ensued. I posited that …
Umbrellas
April showers may bring May flowers, but they also cause the littering of gutters when the broken skeletons of failed umbrellas are unceremoniously tossed aside. We all know that …
Cannoli
When Clemenza told Rocco to “leave the gun, take the cannoli” in The Godfather movie back in 1972, it was perhaps the most sinister portrayal of the festive pastry in cinematic …
Pickleball
Unlike Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, I’ve found the athletic answer to the musical question “where has a slow-movin,’ once quick-draw outlaw got to go?” Pickleball. …