• Cigar Review – Muestra de Saka Krakatoa by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust

    I look forward to Dunbarton’s Muestra de Saka releases each year and 2023’s Krakatoa is no exception. The cigar was to be released originally back in 2021 but was delayed and then last year’s offering, The Bewitched, jumped ahead in the line. Dunbarton main man Steve Saka had this...
  • Cigar Review – Cinco de Cinco by Joya de Nicaragua

    Joya de Nicaragua is celebrating its 55th anniversary in 2023 and, as they have traditionally done over the last five years, the oldest factory in Nicaragua has blended a special cigar to commemorate the occasion. “As we have always said, this is the best cigar that comes out of...
  • Cigar Review – S&R 2023 by Black Works Studio

    The original S&R is one of my favorite all-time releases from James Brown & Black Works Studio, so when I learned earlier this year that it was being reimagined I was both curious and somewhat nervous. Would I enjoy it as much as the 2018 release? What if it...
  • Cigar Review – Mi Querida Black PapaSaka by Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust

    Before you storm TNCC headquarters with your cyber pitchforks and sanctimonious torches, we will go ahead and state the obvious right now – we are big fans of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. It’s not because the company sends us cigars for review. It’s not because DTT’s founder Steve Saka...
  • Cigar Review – Intemperance Volstead VO 1920 George Remus by RoMa Craft

    As a longtime RoMa Craft fan, this might just be my most anticipated cigar of the year. The Quinquagenario, blended with Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. to celebrate RoMa’s cofounder Skip Martin’s 50th birthday, is also high on my radar but I got my hands on the Volstead first. So here...
  • Cigar Review – La Madonna Negra by Black Label Trading Company

    So… honesty time. It’s been a while since I’ve smoked a newly released cigar that’s impressed me. I can’t remember a stretch of months this consecutive where everything that showed up in the TNCC mailbox was so ho hum, so boring. While there’s been some eye-catching presentations and many...
  • Cigar Review – Le Carême Pastelitos LE 2023 by Crowned Heads

    As far as track records are concerned, the Le Carême line from Crowned Heads has a pretty damn perfect one with The Tuesday Night Cigar Club. In 2019 we reviewed the Le Carême Canonazo on Episode 94 and it blew our collective socks off. So much so that it...
  • Cigar Review – Dedicación Coach by All Saints Cigars

    Odit Dominus Ignavus Agit, which translates from Latin to “The Lord Hates A Coward”, is inscribed on the band of tonight’s cigar. I’ve always been fascinated by this phrase in its many forms for reasons that I can never quite put a finger on. It just gets my mind...
  • Cigar Reviews – Romeo vs. Juliet

    Famous Smoke Shop is expanding two of its exclusive Romeo y Julieta “House Of” cigar lines. The Romeo y Julieta Capulet and Romeo y Julieta House of Romeo selections are getting their own line extensions. The new cigars are Nicaraguan-forward renditions that are listed under Romeo y Julieta House...