Dec 7th 2011- Joya De Nicaragua 1970 Antano

Today brings us the Joya De Nicaragua 1970 Antano Robusto in a 5.5x52 vitola. The Antano hails from Nicaragua with all it's tobacco's coming from it's home country. An earthy leathery core is complemented by spice, coffee and a slight chocolaty sweetness that rounds it all out. It is called the 1970 Antano as a tribute to the original Joya De Nicaragua blend which was rolled in 1970. I chose this to be today's cigar to pay tribute to those lost on this the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On Dec 7th 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy carried out their surprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes attacked the base. Eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, to include the sinking of four. Six of the ships returned to service in the war after being repaired while 2 were unraisable. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and a minelayer. One hundred eighty-eight U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded. The Japanese only suffered the loss of twenty nine aircraft, five midget submarines, 65 servicemen killed or wounded and one Japanese sailor was captured. This lead to the United States entry in World War II on Dec 8th 1941.

Dec 6th 2011 - Opus X El Scorpion Natural

Today brings us the Arturo Fuente Opus X El Scorpion Natural in it's only vitola a 6 3/8x50 box pressed saloman. The El Scorpion Natural has a Opus X Rosado wrapper and binder with an Opus X blend for the fillers. The El Scorpion Natural comes in the yearly Funete Cigar Family Charitable Foundation 22 count humidor box. Each cigar comes in it's own coffin and each box is serialized and comes with a certificate of authenticity. The El Scorpion Natural has flavors of classic tobacco, pepper, wood and leather. I chose this to be today's cigar to honor a buddy of mine who gave his life in Afghanistan in service of our country. 1 year ago today the world lost a great man and the Marine Corps lost a great warrior who's son was born the very next day. Derek you will always be remembered for everything you did and we are eternally grateful!

Dec 5th - The Daily Cigar Sampler

It is with great pleasure that today I announce that I now have a custom sampler with Cigar.com. I am very excited to bring this to everybody and hope you all enjoy it. With The Daily Cigar blog sampler you will receive:
1 - 5ct Herf-a-Dor
1 - Tatuaje Cabaiguan Imperiales
1 - Room 101 ‘702’
1 - Gurkha Evil Toro
1 - Cigar.com Sun Grown Label Torpedo
1 - Diesel Unholy Cocktail


This sampler carries an MSRP of around $60 but if you email service@cigar.com and ask for The Daily Cigar blog sampler you will receive this sampler for only $33.95! I custom built this sampler myself to pay homage to some of the biggest supporters of my blog. A huge thanks to Matt Booth of Room 101, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje, the guys at Gurkha and The Beard from cigar.com. For the price and the sticks you get it's a fantastic deal that with the holidays approaching makes a great gift for any cigar enthusiast as it covers everything from mild to medium to full bodied cigars. Below you will find descriptions of all of the cigars featured in the sampler. I hope you order it and if so that you enjoy all the smokes and the case that they come in. Thanks!



Tatuaje Cabaiguan Imperiales
Cabaiguan is Pete Johnson's mild-medium bodied mass production cigar. The Imperiales comes to us in a 7x47 vitola. The Cabaiguan has Nicaraguan fillers and binder with a Ecuadorian grown Connecticut wrapper. This is one of the more complex mild-medium bodied cigars on the market. You'll get ever developing flavors throughout with everything from earth, wood and spice to make this creamy smoke keep you guessing throughout.



Room 101 '702'
Matt Booth's first cigar to be released. The Room 101 '702'is in a 6x54 vitola and simply put it's fantastic. All Honduran tobaccos make up this cigar. Flavors of leather, dark chocolate, espresso and an underlying spice make this cigar what it is.



Gurkha Evil Toro
Gurkha's Evil comes in a 6x50 vitola. The Evil has Nicraguan fillers, a Dominican binder and Brazilian wrapper. You'll get flavors of earth and leather at the core with pepper, spice, cocoa and hints of coffee throughout.



Cigar.com Sun Grown Label
The Cigar.com Sun Grown Label Torpedo comes in a 6x52 vitola. Blended by AJ Fernandez and The Beard the Sun Grown Label is my top go to cigar. An Ecuadorian Sun Grown Sumatra wrapper is where this cigar gets it's name sake. An earthy core that is surrounded by a spicy sweetness makes this cigar consistent and enjoyable. Every time I've had one out the person smoking it raves and then when I drop it's average price point on them, around $2.70 on their site, they can't believe it's that good for that price.



Diesel Unholy Cocktail
The Diesel Unholy Cocktail comes to us in a 5x56 vitola. This is one of my hands down favorite cigars. Wrapped in a beautiful Pennsylvania Broadleaf Maduro wrapper it's binder and fillers come from Nicragua. The complexity of this stick keeps you on your toes. With flavors of leather, pepper, earth, chocolaty sweetness and spice make up the blend. You can smoke it down to the fingers and the ash will hold. I had it happen once myself.

Dec 4th 2011 - San Cristobal Elegencia

Today brings us the San Cristobal Elegencia Robusto in a 5x50 vitola. The San Cristobal line is produced by Don Pepin Garcia in Nicaragua in partnership with Ashton. The Elegencia has a Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper with it's fillers and binder coming from it's home country of Nicaragua. With a woody, earthy and buttery cream core it has notes of leather and pepper that pop up for a pleasant surprise. I chose this out of my archived photos as I'm working diligently on tomorrow big unveiling and love featuring anything DPG on here.

Dec 3rd 2011 - CAO Brazilia

Today brings us the CAO Brazilia in a 4.5x60 vitola. With fillers and it's binder coming from Nicaragua and it's wrapper coming from Brazil the Brazilia is one of my favorite maduros. With flavors of earth, leather, spice and a perfect chocolaty sweetness that ties it all together. I wanted to feature the Brazilia today as I'm busy working on something big for Mon Dec 5th and pulled this photo out of my files to use and figured since I hadn't featured it yet then this was the perfect opportunity. If you haven't had a Brazilia and you are a maduro fan then you might be missing out on something that imo is great.

Dec 2nd 2011 - Tatuaje T110

Today's cigar is the Tatuaje T110 in a 4.3x52 vitola which is it's only size. Only 5,000 of these were made, 200 boxes of 25, and were all sold by a single cigar shop in Hawaii. Hailing from Nicaragua the T110 features all home country tobaccos in it, which just so happen to be all ligero. The T stands for thermonuclear and the 110 is the MM of the cigar. This cigar is a total beast! With booming pepper, leather, pepper, spice, pepper, a chocolately sweetness and pepper this cigar is a power bomb on the taste buds. Which brings us to why it is today's cigar. Today marks the 69th anniversary of when the Manhattan Project initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. This lead to the further creation of the nuclear bomb which as we all know changed the face of not only warfare but the world.

Dec 1st 2011 - La Aroma De Cuba Marquis

Today brings us the La Aroma De Cuba Marquis Robusto in a 5 x 54 vitola. The Marquis is a new old addition to the La Aroma De Cuba line. By this I mean it was discontinued and then brought back. The Marquis features it's wrapper and binder from Honduras and fillers from Honduras and Nicaragua. With flavor notes of pepper, wood, coffee and a sweetness this may not be the most complex cigars but it is a very consistent with great construction, draw and burn. I wanted to dedicate today's blog to my fiance. She's pretty great :)