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Cigar Review: Los Gloriosos Gordo Extra by La Gloria Cubana
Jimmy D from The Drawing Room in Davenport, Iowa reviews the La Gloria Cubana Los Gloriosos Gordo Extra. A collaborative effort between La Gloria Cubana of Scandinavian Tobacco Group...
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Cigar Review: New Dawn Robusto Grande by Avowed Cigars
Avowed Cigars launched earlier this year. The brand was started by Andrew Considine and Dave West, the gentlemen behind Small Batch Cigar, They are...
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Cigar Review: Patina LE 24
We last had Mo Maali of Patina Cigars on the show in September of last year. If you remember, I was pretty bummed about...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Latest Reviews
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Sutliff English: Majestic English and Count Pulaski
With the turn of the weather I step back from a pretty steady stream of Virginias to reach for something smoky, so I reach for…Sutliff? For those surprised by my confusion, when you’ve smoked...
Episode 155: Noel Rojas of Rojas Cigars
James and Nick welcome Noel Rojas of Rojas Cigars to the podcast. Noel discusses growing up in Cuba: from working on tobacco farms at a young age, to his...
54 Clear the Air: A Simply Stogies Podcast After Show
Tim brings James back to the microphone to talk behind the scenes of the MOKH. During the 2025 My Old Kentucky HERF, Tim and James live streamed the event...
Episode 154: FatAsh Cigar Lounge & My Old Kentucky Herf
James visits with Dwight Adkins and Stephen Wray at FatAsh Cigar Lounge 8110 US-60, Ashland, KY 41102. The trio talk My Old Kentucky Herf, multi-vendor events, the planning that...