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Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
The #16 2023 Cigar of the Year is the 601 La Bomba Warhead VIII by Espinosa Cigars.
One of the most popular annual limited edition series of cigars to hit the market over the past decade has been the 601 La Bomba Warhead Series. This series has a great track record of success, landing seven different times. Warhead is an extension of the original 601 La Bomba line, but it replaces the Nicaraguan Habano wrapper with a Broadleaf wrapper. As the name Warhead suggests, it is intended to be a stronger and bolder cigar. Each installment of the Warhead has featured a different size with a tweaked blend adjusted to that size as well as a different set of artwork. Warhead made its debut in 2013 and, with a couple of exceptions, has maintained an annual release schedule. The eighth installment came out in 2022 – appropriately titled Warhead VIII. This introduced a 6 x 60 box-pressed vitola into the series.
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Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
For Episode 291, we are proud to welcome Lee Marsh, founder of Stolen Throne Cigars a our special guest.
Lee and his company have been quiety building up a nice portfolio of offerings and tonight we will learn Lee’s story and learn about Stolen Throne Cigars.
Plus, we will have our Alec Bradley Live True Segment, FSG Beef Question of the Night, Tabacalera USA Ties That Bind, and Espinosa Today in Sports History. For our Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Deliberation segment, we will look at the “Cigars on the Year End List Graveyard”. This will focus on those cigars that have landed on EOY lists that have vanished or become endangered species.
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
For Episode 291, we are proud to welcome Lee Marsh, founder of Stolen Throne Cigars a our special guest.
Lee and his company have been quiety building up a nice portfolio of offerings and tonight we will learn Lee’s story and learn about Stolen Throne Cigars.
Plus, we will have our Alec Bradley Live True Segment, FSG Beef Question of the Night, Tabacalera USA Ties That Bind, and Espinosa Today in Sports History. For our Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Deliberation segment, we will look at the “Cigars on the Year End List Graveyard”. This will focus on those cigars that have landed on EOY lists that have vanished or become endangered species.
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
The #17 2023 Cigar of the Year is the La Palina KB Part Three. The story of La Palina’s KB is quite interesting from both the La Palina end and the Cigar Coop end.
In 2011, La Palina Cigars introduced its second line, El Diario. La Palina positioned El Diario as an everyday smoke and was one meant to be more affordable than its ultra-premium Family Series. El Diario went on to capture Cigar Coop’s #1 Cigar of the Year for 2011. The following year, La Palina unveiled a 4 1/4 x 40 petit corona line extension with a more robust tweaked blend known as KB. KB stands for “Kill Bill,” and it was named because the prototype of the sample given to La Palina owner Bill Paley was so strong that it threw him for a loop. Later, La Palina released a second KB size in the form of a 6 x 40 vitola, the KB II.
Fast forward to 2021, and La Palina decided to discontinue the El Diario line while launching a new line around KB. In addition to the KB and KB II sizes coming over, La Palina added two new sizes: Part Three (5 x 52) and Part Four (6 x 54). It’s the Part Three vitola that lands on this year’s Countdown
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Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
The #17 2023 Cigar of the Year is the La Palina KB Part Three. The story of La Palina’s KB is quite interesting from both the La Palina end and the Cigar Coop end.
In 2011, La Palina Cigars introduced its second line, El Diario. La Palina positioned El Diario as an everyday smoke and was one meant to be more affordable than its ultra-premium Family Series. El Diario went on to capture Cigar Coop’s #1 Cigar of the Year for 2011. The following year, La Palina unveiled a 4 1/4 x 40 petit corona line extension with a more robust tweaked blend known as KB. KB stands for “Kill Bill,” and it was named because the prototype of the sample given to La Palina owner Bill Paley was so strong that it threw him for a loop. Later, La Palina released a second KB size in the form of a 6 x 40 vitola, the KB II.
Fast forward to 2021, and La Palina decided to discontinue the El Diario line while launching a new line around KB. In addition to the KB and KB II sizes coming over, La Palina added two new sizes: Part Three (5 x 52) and Part Four (6 x 54). It’s the Part Three vitola that lands on this year’s Countdown
Full Details: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-r9P
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
The #18 2023 Cigar of the Year is the Knuckle Sandwich Maduro Toro H. One of the big stories of 2022 was the announcement that celebrity restauranteur Guy Fieri would be teaming up with Espinosa Cigars to launch the Knuckle Sandwich brand of cigars. Knuckle Sandwich Cigars is a brand produced and distributed by Espinosa Cigars. The brand has proliferated and now has three regular production lines and three limited edition lines. The Knuckle Sandwich Maduro is a regular production line and is one of the two original blends released when Knuckle Sandwich launched. It's the Maduro that has earned a spot on the Countdown.
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Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
The #18 2023 Cigar of the Year is the Knuckle Sandwich Maduro Toro H. One of the big stories of 2022 was the announcement that celebrity restauranteur Guy Fieri would be teaming up with Espinosa Cigars to launch the Knuckle Sandwich brand of cigars. Knuckle Sandwich Cigars is a brand produced and distributed by Espinosa Cigars. The brand has proliferated and now has three regular production lines and three limited edition lines. The Knuckle Sandwich Maduro is a regular production line and is one of the two original blends released when Knuckle Sandwich launched. It's the Maduro that has earned a spot on the Countdown.
Full Details: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-r99
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
We are pleased to welcome the one and only Nick Perdomo, President and CEO of Perdomo Cigars back to Prime Time.
Perdomo Cigars is finishing up a big year, capped off with the shipping of the long-awaited Perdomo 30th Anniversary. We’ll get the update on this and all things Perdomo on this very special, Special Edition to finish up 2023!
Plus, we have our Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group U.S. History segment, Tabacalera USA Great Things are Happening Here, and Espinosa This Day in Sports History segments.
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Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
We are pleased to welcome the one and only Nick Perdomo, President and CEO of Perdomo Cigars back to Prime Time.
Perdomo Cigars is finishing up a big year, capped off with the shipping of the long-awaited Perdomo 30th Anniversary. We’ll get the update on this and all things Perdomo on this very special, Special Edition to finish up 2023!
Plus, we have our Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group U.S. History segment, Tabacalera USA Great Things are Happening Here, and Espinosa This Day in Sports History segments.
References
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
The #19 2023 Cigar of the Year is Weller by Cohiba 2022. The cigar comes from General Cigar Company. Over the past few years, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG), General's parent company, has collaborated with the Buffalo Trace Distillery. The brands from Buffalo Trace that STG has worked on include Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare, Fireball Cinnamon, and Weller. The first collaboration between STG and Weller was the release of the Weller by Cohiba in 2021. The Weller by Cohiba aimed to provide a cigar that could complement Weller Bourbon. For those who don’t follow the spirits world, Weller refers to a line of premium bourbons sold under the W.L. Weller brand. W.L. Weller stands for William Larue Weller (1825–1899). The following year, there was another release featuring an all-new blend, appropriately called the Weller by Cohiba 2022. Since then, there has also been a 2023 release. All three differ, but we'll focus on the Weller by Cohiba 2022 release.
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