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To celebrate a true milestone anniversary, back in 2019 Famous Smoke Shop turned to a true master blender to create a special cigar to commemorate their 80 years in business. The cigars Steve Saka produced were such a success that more were commissioned and this year two new sizes...
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Full disclosure time, I’m a longtime fan of the Cabinetta series. It’s not only a regular rotation smoke for me, but it has proven to be an outstanding cigar to hand out to novice smokers over the years. There’s nothing scary about the Cabinetta as it’s always a smooth,...
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The Doctor is certainly prone to moralizing but I have stopped short of ever delivering a sermon. I am a religious man, but I leave the sermonizing to the professionals. Suffice it to say that I am paradoxically both a man of science and religion. Whether this makes me...
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Last year, Black Label Trading Company celebrated its tenth anniversary by releasing the outstanding La Madonna Negra cigar which earned the #3 spot on our Top Ten Cigars of 2023 list. In a recent press release, BLTC’s main man James Brown had this to say about tonight’s cigar: “Orthodox...
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For well over a decade now, Alec Bradley has been releasing their Filthy Hooligan line of cigars to commemorate the Saint Patrick’s Day holiday. The TNCC reviewed that cigar way back in March of 2016. Flash forward a few years and the company announced a new variation of the...
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It’s understandable if you haven’t yet heard of Statesman Cigar Company as they are relatively new on the scene. Here’s the Statesman story, pulled from their website: “Launched in 2023, Statesman Cigar Co. was birthed out of the founders’ shared passion for cigar smoking, great community, and the finer...
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Let The Doctor delve into the past and paint you a picture. Tis a stiflingly hot summer afternoon, perhaps a Thursday, sometime in the halcyon days of the early nineties. TNCC chairman Matthew Cade and myself are wandering the horror aisles of our local video store, both of us...
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BLACKENED Cigars “M81” by Drew Estate is a passion project that brings together three immensely talented and vastly experienced cigar enthusiasts — Jonathan Drew, Founder and President of Drew Estate; James Hetfield, Metallica co-founder, singer and guitarist; and Rob Dietrich, the Master Distiller and Blender of BLACKENED American Whiskey....
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Recent ominous events of both a domestic and global nature reminded The Doctor that life is fleeting and one should always enjoy God’s plentiful bounty. Therefore when Tuesday Night Cigar Club chairman Cade informed me that Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving was now available on Netflix my only thought was, why...