I acquired a couple of Gran Habano cigars as part of a sampler picked up at the Aleppo Smoker and I already reviewed the Gran Habano Corojo #5 here. The Corojo was a nice medium bodied cigar, but it only took one look at the Connecticut #1 to see that this one would be [...]

Back in the spring, I attended the Aleppo Shriner’s Smoker in Wilmington, MA and a couple of guys from El Tiante Cigars were there giving away churchills in both the natural and maduro varieties. Started by Red Sox legend Luis Tiant, the cigars feature an image of the legendary pitcher in his signature windup [...]