Author: Erik Calvino

Zafra 30 Master Series While drinking and smoking cigars during the workday gets in the way of actual work for many, we have the incredible …

Opthimus 25 Years ORIGIN: Dominican Republic ABV. 43% The Origin Story Juanillo Oliver arrived in Cuba in 1868 as a young member of the Spanish …

ORIGIN: Shively, KY ABV. 50% First in the bottle Adulteration of spirits is a problem as old as the spirit itself. In the 1800s, distillers …

ORIGIN: Panama ABV. 40% What’s in a word? The word zafra is one of those rare, ubiquitous words that shows up in vocabularies all over …

ORIGIN: LAWRENCEBURG, KY ABV. 50% Cinderella of Bourbon Four Roses Bourbon hasn’t had an easy life; its history is murky, no one really knows where …

You’ve undoubtedly noticed that, in recent years, we’ve incorporated more wine into the Perfect Pairings section. Nothing in Cigar Snob happens by chance. We’d been …

ORIGIN: NEWPORT, KY. ABV. 56.3% The new guy is going old school One of the newest players in the bourbon game is dead set on …

Our magazine is based in Miami, about four hours southeast of Tampa. So in between issues we often make the trek across Alligator Alley (an …

The Corley family has been involved in the Napa wine business since 1969 when Jay Corley turned his master’s degree thesis at Pepperdine University on …