So I’ve decided to write this review surrounded by the guys. I am already slightly annoyed at this decision I made. Budget Jamie and Adham are talking about which mouse is best. The electronic kind. Omar is sat on the side, slowly losing the will to…
Welcome to WW3. It's been a year and a week since I last wrote a review. And what a year it's been. Mal realised that she has better things to do than to edit hours of three middle-aged, overweight men droning on about cigars. For free. Who can blam…
Let’s be honest - lighting a cigar sounds simple until you’re doing it with a crowd watching, one shaky hand, and a flame that seems to be auditioning for a magician's act. But the truth is, how you light your cigar can dramatically influence the fl…
I have recently finished reading (more like listening to) the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. What stood out to me was how Steve Jobs was forced out of the company he had founded, Apple, by John Sculley, a CEO he’d recruited. Jobs went o…
Oxford Dictionary defines an Aficionado as “a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime,” and an Enthusiast as “a person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject.” I ponder this as I …
It’s the last of the good Dubai weather these days. Calling it good is stretching, I’m already sweating just from setting up my smoking zone in my patio. There is no wind, which I prefer when smoking outdoors, but the temperature is a balmy 26 degre…
I bought a box of Plasencia Reserva 1898 Robustos a couple of years back from Dubai Duty-Free. At around 400 dirhams for a box of 20 cigars, it was a solid deal. At the time, I had no idea I was buying one of the best bang-for-your-buck sticks I’d e…
It’s quite appropriate that my first cigar review is of the last Quintero in my humidor. This cigar has been my one constant must-buy every time I’m in the duty-free. It is the very definition of a budget daily smoke, and it certainly doesn’t hurt t…