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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.

        The Latest Simply Stogies Podcast Media

        The very latest episodes of Simply Stogies media.

        Episode 101: Dr. Oscar Rodriguez of GTO Cigars

        James and Nick are joined by the CEO of GTO Dominican Cigars, Dr. Oscar Rodriguez. Dr. Rodriguez gives us the history of growing tobacco on the family farm in the Dominican Republic and some...

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        06 Clear the Air: The Simply Stogies After Show

        Tim, Nick, and James discuss the 100th episode of Simply Stogies. The trio discuss Micallef Cigars and Andy Yaffee’s  appearance, and what it takes to be a sales person in the cigar industry. They...

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        Episode 100: Micallef Cigars’ Andy Yaffee

          James and Nick welcome our friend Andy Yaffee, the National Sales Director for Micallef Cigars, to the show. For our 100th episode, we ask Andy about the new sizes of the Micallef Leyenda...

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        05 Clear the Air: The Simply Stogies After Show

        Tim welcomes both hosts from Simply Stogies, James and Nick, to Clear the Air this week. The trio discuss the Festival del Habano and Cuban cigars in general. Nick gets the full Clear the...

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        Episode 99: Festival del Habano 2023

        James and Nick discuss the 2023 Festival del Habano that was held in Cuba from Feb. 27 – March 3. Nick battles through the lingering cough from the “Commie Corona” to walk us through...

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        The Latest Reviews

        Cigar Review: Casdagli “Brothers of the Sabre” Forrader

        A few months before the 2023 PCA Trade Show I was fortunate enough to sit in on an online cut & light with guest Jeremy Casdagli. It was three amazing hours of sampling Casdagli...

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        Top 10 Cigars of 2023: Honorable Mention

        The LH Cigars Nikos was originally released in November 2022. It features an Ecuadorian HVA binder, Ecuadorian Habano binder, and fillers from Nicaragua and Brazil…along with two ligero tobaccos from the Dominican Republic and...

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        Cigar Review: All Saints Cigar Solamente (2023)

        If you are familiar with All Saints Cigars, good; if not, you should be. The self-stylized Holy Trinity, consisting of friends Micky Pegg, Marty Corbon, and Frank Layo, started in 2019. Their first cigar,...

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        Cigar Review: Las Calaveras Edicion Limatada 2023 LC54 from Crowned Heads

        Each year Crowned Heads releases the Las Calaveras line of cigars. They began releasing Las Calaveras in 2014 as a way to honor and remember those in the cigar industry who passed away the...

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        Cigar Review: Lomo de Cerdo from Tatuaje

        I once again find myself reviewing a cigar that has its beginnings pre-2018. (For those not in the know, 2018 was the year I started smoking cigars.) This time, it’s the Tatuaje Lomo de...

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