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How to avoid feeling Sick or Dizzy from a Strong Cigar
It happens to the best of us, either we didn't eat enough before hand or just don't have the right sugar levels befor...
BLOG: Best Cigar Smoking Tips for Beginners and Aficionados
The Cigar Merchant' shares his Best Cigar Smoking Tips
First and foremost my fellow aficionados - in New Zealand cig...
Cigar Basics - Cutting Your Cigar
More Than a Hobby- a great Cigar is the start of your Passion
A bad cut will ruin even the best cigar, so it is impor...
Cigar Basics - Selecting Your Cigar
More Than a Hobby- a great Cigar is the start of your Passion
Purchasing a cigar can seem very daunting given the vas...
Tobacco Beetles - What to Do
Protecting your investment in your favourite passion
What is the Tobacco Beetle?
Well, it's official title is "Lasiod...
Cigar 101: How to store your cigars
FIRST THINGS FIRST.
In order to know how to best store cigars we need to know what the optimum storage values are, f...
BLOG-TIP: Cigar Storage 101 (Heat Wave)
As we fast approach a potential record-breaking week of temperatures across New Zealand, I thought a quick BLOG-TIP o...
BLOG: Is Weather Playing Havoc With Your Cigars?
When the cold winter weather hits and your heat pump kicks in, this can have a detrimental effect on all but the most...
Tip #1- Buy Quality Cigars
I want to be sure you undersand the difference between a machine made and a hand made cigar, and the pros and cons of...
BLOG: My First Cigar
MY FIRST CIGARCopyright (C), 1893, by The S. Brainard's Sons Co.Words and Music by M. Le Roy.'Twas on a quiet afterno...
I've had a cigar before but didn't like it
Yes, the famous "I've had a cigar before" followed by, "ya, but I didn't like it." It turns out that their experience...
Would you make the cut?
Everyone has a drawer full of knives- a knife for every purpose- a bread knife, a chef's knife, paring knife, maybe a...