El Centurion Re-Release Coming in 2013

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This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Don Pepin Garcia’s illustrious non-Cuban cigar career.  As a tribute to this milestone, one of the exciting announcements for 2013 is the Garcia family has decided to bring back the 2007 smash hit, … Continue reading

Take 5: Great Cigars Projected For CA Top 25

Welcome to our 2nd installment of Take 5 – a series aimed at bringing you short, unique perspectives on certain facets within the cigar and/or wine industries.  As the name implies, each Take 5 segment is intended to be read/viewed in five minutes or less. Continue reading

2012 Year in Review Part V – Barry Stein of Miami Cigar

Today we’re continuing with our 2012 Year in Review.  This time we reach back in to the video archives to talk with Barry Stein, Miami Cigar Company’s assistant director of Marketing and Advertising.  In this clip, Barry discusses all the new cigar offerings from Miami Cigar, La Aurora and La Sirena.  We also were able to ask Barry about his recent transition from blog owner to landing a marketing job with a major cigar company – enjoy!

Take 5: World’s Best Cigars By The Numbers

Welcome to Leaf and Grape’s inaugural launch of a series simply known as “Take 5″. Our goal here is to bring you a short, hopefully unique perspective on a certain facet within the cigar or wine industry, keeping it to 5 minutes or less. (hence the name Take 5) With today’s future announcement of Cigar Aficionado’s #1 Cigar of the Year, we decided to make this first installment on the topic of “World’s Best Cigars” – we hope you enjoy… Continue reading

2012 Year in Review Part IV – Eddie Ortega on Serie-D

Continuing with our 2012 Year in Review, we once again reach back in to the video archives. This time, we meet with the man responsible for bringing Mexican San Andres wrapper to the forefront, Mr. Eddie Ortega. For those who remember, it was the Murcielago (Spanish for Bat) that got the whole Mexican San Andres wrapper craze started. We were able to catch up with Ortega at IPCPR back in August. Here’s what he had to say about the all-new Serie-D…

2012 Top 10 Cigars – Best of the Best

Now that our Top 10 lists for the best Light, Medium and Full strength cigars has been compiled and published – we continued crunching the numbers to come up with an “Over-All” Top 10 list of the Best Cigars for 2012.

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2012 Top Cigars – Best Core Lines

Now that our Top 10 lists for the best Light, Medium and Full strength cigars has been compiled and published. We thought it would be fun to slice-and-dice our information a couple of different ways. As many of you know, limited edition cigars are quite often very hard to come by. That being said, I think most would agree the back-bone bread and butter offerings in the cigar industry are the “core lines.” That being said, we went back and crunched the numbers against all 3 of our lists (light, medium and full) to come up with a “Best of the Core Lines” ranking. Those findings are included in the Top-10 list below – enjoy! Continue reading