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PCA 2025 Coverage

The 2025 PCA Trade Show has come and gone. Below are the latest 3 interviews. Click here to see all of our interviews.

PCA 2025 Coverage: Casa Carillo

Nick visits with his friend Ernesto Perez-Carillo at the newly branded Casa Carillo booth at the 2025 PCA Convention and Trade Show in New Orleans. View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vcVtwpBBjjE

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PCA 2025 Coverage: Crowned Heads

James sits down with Jon Huber at the Crowned Heads booth. The pair discuss Crowned Head’s rebrand, their new releases, and his partnerships with Tim Ozgener and Mike Conder. View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/f28b5K0KvMs

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PCA 2025 Coverage: Afidano

Nick continues his humidor shopping by stopping at the Afidano booth at the 2025 PCA Convention and Trade Show in New Orleans. View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/f3q99ZEbQHs

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The Latest Simply Stogies Podcast Media

The very latest episodes of Simply Stogies media.

32 Clear the Air: A Simply Stogies Podcast After Show

In this episode we dig behind the scenes of the latest episode of Simply Stogies Podcast with guest Lou Cross, brand owner of Lure Cigars. We have been hearing the hype behind this new...

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Episode 129: Lou Cross III of Lure Cigars

James and Nick welcome Lou Cross III, founder of Lure Cigars, to the show. Lou talks about honoring his late father, Lou Cross Jr., to naming his cigars after his family, he walks us...

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31 Clear the Air: A Simply Stogies Podcast After Show

In this episode of Clear the Air Tim, James, and Nick go behind the scenes of Episode 128 where James sits down and talks to Dwight Adkins and Stephen Wray of FatAsh Cigar Lounge....

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Episode 128: Dwight Adkins & Stephen Wray of FatAsh Cigar Lounge & My Old Kentucky Herf

James visits FatAsh Cigar Lounge to talk with Dwight Adkins and Stephen Wray about FatAsh Cigar and My Old Kentucky Herf. We discuss how FatAsh started, why Dwight started it, how Dwight and Stephen...

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30 Clear the Air: A Simply Stogies After Show

Tim welcomes James and Nick back to another Simply Stogies After Show to dig in a little deeper on the latest episode of Simply Stogies Podcast with their guests Jonas Santana and Miyagi Montes...

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The Latest Reviews

Cigar Review: “The Mean Jean” from Lure Cigars

At the end of July, 2023, Lou Cross decided to start his own brand of cigars; he called it Lure Cigars. A play on his (and his late father’s) name. What began as an...

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Cigar Review: Macanudo Emissary España

Macanudo Emissary España uses a harmonious five-country blend highlighted by a Havana seed grown near the town of Riolobos, Spain. The region’s rocky soil and Mediterranean climate yield a rich tobacco that cannot be...

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Cigar Review: Sobremesa Brûlée Wagashi from Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust

The Sobremesa Brûlée Wagashi is a collaboration between DT&T and Cigar Dojo. It was first a Smoke Inn exclusive that built on the Sobremesa Brûlée Blue and is a modified blend of the Blue....

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Cigar Review: S84 Shade to Black Corona Doble by Drew Estate

In March of this year, Drew Estate released the another cigar in the Blackened line: the S84 Shade to Black. This is the sophomore release for the line that is a collaboration between Metallica’s...

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Cigar Review: Smoking Jacket’s Mini Henkie

During the PCA 2024 Trade Show earlier this year, I was able to stop by the Smoking Jacket booth and spend some time talking with the those behind the Mini Henkie: Hendrik Kelner Jr....

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