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 [...]

I’ve had this next cigar for a little over four months, having picked it up via the Aleppo Smoke back in March. I simply put this one in the humidor and completely forgot about it. I pulled out last week and smoked it on truly marvelous summer night on the patio. Gran Habano [...]

This past Father’s Day, my lovely wife bought me a nice new travel humidor and sampler pack. In that pack were a number of your standard sampler fare from Rocky Patel and Gurkha as well as a number of brands I had never heard of before. Among those obscure brands was the “Augusto [...]

My first La Aroma de Cuba was given to me by a coworker nearly a year ago and since that day, I’ve smoke quite a few more. As soon as I came up with the idea to launch Oak and Smoke, I was determined to make the La Aroma de Cuba my first official [...]