Features
DeVito!
As Cigar Aficionado magazine approaches 20 years in print, we are taking a look back at some of the most memorable stories we have published over the years. In this step …
Alain Ducasse
The best cigar bar in Paris opened in August. It also happens to be part of the best restaurant in France--Alain Ducasse. Named after the well-known Michelin three-star chef Alain …
Las Mañanitas
I have no trouble recalling my first deluxe restaurant experience. It was at Las Mañanitas sometime during the mid-1950s, shortly after it opened in Cuernavaca, an hour's drive …
Oceana
Nestled between the office towers and luxury high-rises of Manhattan's East 54th Street, Oceana is a cab ride away from the nearest pier. Yet when you walk past the glass doors, …
Cigar!
Synchronicity. How else can you explain it? At the same time cigars are on the rise, Cigar is on the rise. Ignored for many years, cigars may be the product of the '90s; ignored …
Dominican Diamonds
On a baseball diamond in San Pedro de Marcoris, a port city on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic, a tall, skinny kid digs a shoe into the hard dirt of the batter's box. …
Gifts of the Czar
Mr. Fabergé himself has brought me this most beautiful egg. Inside is a sedan chair carried by two Africans with Catherine the Great in it. And she has a little crown on her head. …
Going Formal
The question of the hour is, at the fin of this siècle: Are there any rules left? The answer to that is a definite maybe. But perhaps the more interesting question is: Do …
Good As Gold
Two miles beneath the surface of the earth, in the aptly named Western Deep Levels gold mine in South Africa, there isn't a glimmer of gold to be seen. It's hot and humid, and the …
Regal Rentals
Few people live in hotels. For most of us, our home is our most prized possession. So why do so many travelers choose a hotel room for a vacation, when they can rent a home as …
Smoke On The Water
Jumping off such offshore race boats as "The Exciter," "Demented" and "Bad Attitude," a dozen blondes and brunettes in skimpy bikinis parade into Shooters, a Fort Lauderdale, …
Tennis' Old Guard
Jimmy Connors was lonely. Then again, wasn't that business as usual? From the pebbled court in Belleville, Illinois, where he learned to play tennis, to the velvet lawns of …
The Beat Goes On
Brazil. The mere mention of the South American giant brings to mind a host of romantic images: palm trees, beaches, bronzed bodies, soccer performed as ballet, Carnival, flying …
The Hands of Time
It is under the term "classic" that some of the gravest offenses against male style have been committed. We have had "modern classics," "classics with a twist" and "reinvented …
The Hustler
He has probably won more money playing golf than anyone in the history of the sport. More than Jack Nicklaus, more than Tom Kite, even more than Greg Norman, the sport's all-time …
Tying the Knot
Well, I can tell you," says John Haller, vice president at Robert Talbott Inc., the most renowned U.S. tiemaker, "that our more expensive lines of neckwear are selling better than …
Walking Tall
Once upon a time, a colorless firewater called usquebaugh was produced by numerous licit and illicit stills in the Highlands, islands and lowlands of Scotland. The Scots either …
Shemp's Last Cigar
Ponder poor Shemp, the Stooge we never loved. Dear Shemp, his mangy puss suspended in time on grainy Columbia stock, scowling out from beneath klieg light sweat and dripp…
Driving BMW
There's something about the goatee. And the coal-fire eyes. The cigar and the thick Bavarian accent couldn't have offered much cover, either. But there was Bernd Pischetsrie…
Four Seasons Resort Bali
While it may be true, as some travelers often say, that the journey is more important than the destination, the Four Seasons Resort Bali easily defies this notion. Many of the …
The Carlyle Hotel
Dignified yet comfortable, the Carlyle is exactly what one should look for--but might not expect to find--in a hotel on Manhattan's sleek, genteel Upper East Side. After all, in …
The Peninsula Hong Kong
On a recent return trip from Manila to London, I found myself with an eight-hour layover in Hong Kong. To pass the time, I recalled the advice of a well-traveled friend, grabbed a …
Cigars in the Newsroom
This week, John Harter's assignment is to sit behind the wheel of a dark-blue BMW Z3. It's a two-seat roadster, the type Pierce Brosnan drove as James Bond in Golden Eye. …
Cigars & Academia
The new president of Huxley College prepares to take the podium to deliver his inaugural address to the trustees, faculty and students of that fine institution. He doesn't …
An Interview With Robert Levin
Robert Levin, 50, has been in the cigar business since he was a child. He swept floors, packed shipments and took inventory in his father's retail cigar store in downtown …
Cigars
The Chocolate King
Philanthropist and Candy Maker Milton Hershey Believed in Three Things: Chocolate, Children and Cigars
A Private World
Building the Ultimate Den
Club Macanudo
Outside is Woody Allen's New York--a tree-lined stretch of restrained East Side elegance just a few yards from Madison Avenue's posh boutiques and bistros. But inside, nestled …
Reviving a Tradition
A Business Powerhouse in the Dominican Republic, Empresas León Jimenes Is Returning to Its Cigar Making Heritage
Smokin' U S A
In The 1920s There Were Speakeasies. In The 1990s There Are Cigar Lounges
Playing the Heavy
Actor Robert Davi has made a career of playing tough guys with a signature cigar.
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
The Time is Now
"Dear Marvin, I love your magazine. My only complaint is that I have to wait three months for each new issue." Over the years, we have received hundreds of letters from many of …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, Whenever I enter a restaurant and the question is asked, "Smoking or non-smoking?"--my answer is "I'll take smoking." It's a better class of people. …