Smokin', Drinkin' and Writin'
Along with the Oliva Serie O I had picked up from my local shop, I scooped up a couple of the Oliva Serie G Maduro blend. It had been awhile since I smoked this blend so, I was looking forward to them.
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German emigré Samuel Seidenberg became the first cigar manufacturer in Key West (1867) and produced the popular La Rosa Espaniola cigar; it soared quickly to the top of clear Havana production. In 1894, Seidenberg moved from Key West to Tampa due to labor problems and built the 35,000 square foot Seidenberg Cigar Company factory.[su_pullquote]Brands: La […]
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The Mimosa is a classic brunch cocktail. You can hardly think of one without the other.
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I picked this Oliva Serie O up at a local shop, pre-lockdown. As I was walking into the shop, who should I see but Alan Oliva, my local Oliva rep and one of the busiest guys I know in the sales biz.
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World Cocktail Day was created to celebrate the first recorded definition of the word cocktail. That distinction belongs to a New York tabloid named The Balance and Columbian Repository. While the word “cock-tail” has been found in print much earlier, the actual definition “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and […]
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The Y Pendas & Alvarez Cigar Company was founded in 1867 by Ysidro Pendas, Miguel Alvarez and Faustino Lozano. In addition to Ybor City, Y Pendas & Alvarez had factories in New York City and Cuba.
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Cumpay was launched in 1999 from the volcanic highlands of Nicaragua’s Jalapa valley. “Cumpay” is the Tawakha Indian name for a rolled tobacco leaf. This cigar is a Nicaraguan Puro.
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The brick factory was built sometime before 1910. Originally, the El Grifo factory which was owned by the P. San Martin Cigar Company was on this same plot of land. A wooden building, it probably suffered damage by fire like so many of the other wooden cigar factories. At some point the company name was […]
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Earlier this month, my daughter surprised me with a cigar. It was given to her by one of her dog walking clients to give to me. The cigar was a Graycliff G2 Turbo Edición Limitada 2010. I have never had one before so, I was looking forward to smoking it.
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Gradiaz, Annis Gold Label was one of the most popular cigar brands in the 1950’s. The Sanchez y Haya Shakespeare cigar brand came to the company by way of a 1936 aquisition of Wengler and Mandell. Wengler and Mandell had aquired Sanchez y Haya in 1934. Sanchez y Haya created the Shakespeare brand in 1872 […]
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