CAO Cigars “Last Stick Standing”

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I happen to love this photo! To me it shows how just how relaxing it is to smoke a great cigar! That’s Ricky Rodriguez on the left.
CAO cigars has been a long time personal favorite of mine and right now they are running a very unique promotion. Featured in this week’s video is Grace, from the General Cigar Company and yours truly from CigarVlog, discussing it. Thank you Grace!

From their site: http://www.caocigars.com
1. Visit your local smoke shop to get a free tri-pack of the unreleased cigars with purchase of any 6 CAO cigars*.
2. Sign in through Facebook or create an account.
3. Rate the cigars at your leisure.

Every time you rate another cigar, the number of entries you receive will double, starting with 2 entries for the first one. You don’t have to rate all three at once, but the sweepstakes ends June 30, so get to rating.

Share your ratings to increase your entries.
After you tell us what you think, tell everyone else what you think and we’ll make it worth your time by further doubling your entries for each rating you share. Rate and share all 3 and you’ll get 64 entries!

Bonita Smoke Shop is a participating retailer of CAO cigars for this promotion.

Many thanks to Grace for helping with this video! Looking forward to what cigar is chosen. Will it be the C? The A? The O? Don’t wait too long tho. As of today there’s only 40 days left to get in on this.

Leave us a comment about how you think our new Vlog is doing so far and we’ll be happy to enter you into our latest giveaway! 1 random winner will be chosen and will receive this super duper red hot momma smokin’ CAO ashtray! Contest ends May 21st!Be sure to follow us on twitter: we are @CigarVlog and we’ll keep you posted on all our new articles and of course any contests going on! Thanks!

Romeo Cigars by Romeo y Julieta

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A tasty new cigar, the Romeo cigars by Romeo y Julieta, is just arriving at select cigar shops. Sizes currently being made at this time are a Robusto 5″ x 54, Churchill 7″ x 56, Toro 6″ x 54 and Piramide 6″ 1/8 x 52 We are told that a special team at Tabacalera de Garcia was chosen to create the Romeo cigar due to it’s complexity. Romeo offers you a more full bodied, deeper richer smoke, than the other cigars in the well known Romeo y Juliet line and one of the reasons we think is their use of a Ecuadorian Habano for the wrapper. Substantial ring sizes on all of these show a trend towards a more “Hefty sized” smoke we’ve been seeing more and more of.

Here is what Romeo and Julieta has to say about the tobacco used in the Romeo cigars:

Wrapper: Select Dark Ecuadorian Habano: The natural cloud cover of the Ecuadorian tobacco growing region combined with the rich volcanic soil yields a lovely, supple and well burning leaf. This wrappers are selected for their dark, rich color and robust taste.

Binder: Select Dominican Olor: A specially selected Olor binder is mountain grown. The high humidity and fresh morning breezes result in a naturally sweet binder tobacco which adds balance and character. The alluvial porosity of the soil along with its unique mineral content produces a binder with excellent combustion and a full round flavor.

Filler: Blend of select Domincan Piloto and Olor tobaccos: Specially selected Dominican Piloto tobaccos grown in the south along the winding river beds known for soil rich on minerals. Blended with a special selection of dark Olor tobaccos grown in low lying rich soils combined together for a complex, full bodied blend and a rich tasting cigar with a lovely white ash.

We love having contests and doing giveaways so here’s another one for you. Leave a comment letting us know the first cigar you ever smoked! We will choose 1 winner at random from all entries on May 18th. Winner will receive 5 Romeo cigars plus a Lotus Vertigo laser lighter to fire them up with!

San Lotano Oval Cigars

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Once in a while a cigar comes along and the moment you see it, even from a distance, there’s a certain “something” about it that tells me “This is going to be a good one”. Happy to say the San Lotano cigars were just that type cigar! Not a company to sit on their laurels a new maduro has been added to the extremely popular San Lotano Oval Cigars. Here’s Jeff, our sales representative for San Lotano telling me about this new – and soon to be released – cigar. Take it away Jeff!

 

We will update with more news as we get it on this new blend from AJ Fernandez.

Your comments are always welcomed and appreciated!

Serie D Cigars by Ortega Cigar Co

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Here is Trish, who many may know from Bonita Smoke Shop, and Alfredo, sales representative for the Ortega Cigar Co talking about the exciting new Serie D line of cigars.

Comments welcome! Tell us which cigar size you usually choose to smoke as a “go to” size and we will enter your name in our random drawing for an assorted 5 pack of these great new Serie D cigars! One winner. Drawing held on April 27, 2012. We’ll post the winner here.

  • The winner of our “GoTo” size cigar contest is Jake! Congratulations! Just sent you an email Jake and hope you’ll enjoy Eddie’s “Serie D” selection of cigars. Happy smoking!

 

Cigar talk with Pepin Garcia

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My Father Cigars owner Pepin Garcia at Bonita Smoke Shop, Bonita Springs, FL

Bonita Smoke Shop hosted Senor Pepin Garcia this past Friday for a cigar event. It was nice to have the luxury of some extra time and the opportunity to sit in my office and talk one on one with him about cigars. Not an easy task since we did have the Spanish/English language barrier going on. In reality that barrier simply evaporated as we began talking cigars!

We smoked cigars, had some coffee and began talking about the sun’s strength, amounts of rain and quality of the soil and how each of those interconnected variables affects the flavor of tobacco. How certain areas, in different countries with their own weather patterns and tobacco fields, produce the various “flavors” we taste in the cigars. Pepin has a gift of being able to take those various “flavors” and blend them into cigars that have had some of the highest rating in the business.

Now that we had found a common “language” we continued on talking about family values, the past, present and future of premium cigars. Next up was food (those of you that know me just said “of course”!) and how we both loved the delicate filled pastries called Cuban Pastelitos! More about those in another post!

Thanks to Pepin himself and Joaquin of My Father Cigars for all his hard work and for making this event a memorable one!

Lighting an Oliva V Lancero cigar

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Alan, our Account Representative from the Oliva Cigar Company, visiting Bonita Smoke Shop. We discuss the Oliva V Lancero wrapper and the effect of the ratio of wrapper to binder/filler in cigars.
Oliva Serie V Cigars – Ligero Especial
Rated an outstanding 94!

Oliva Serie V cigars are a complex, tantalizing blend of the highest quality Nicaraguan long filler tobaccos. Expertly blended with the specially fermented Jalapa Valley ligero, and finished with a high priming Habano Sun Grown Wrapper.

Blending Notes:The Oliva Serie V cigars are expertly blended to deliver you a complex, satisfying, full body taste while maintaining an unparalleled smoothness.
The flavorful Oliva V blend cigars exhibit complex tobacco with rich coffee and dark chocolate tones. A subtle and well balanced spice is present throughout.

“When a cigar scores 94 points, everyone notices. But when a cigar scores 94 points and retails forless than $7, it is proof that a near-classic smoke does not have to be inordinately expensive.”
Cigar Aficionado

Bonita’s 18th Anniversary Cigar

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This video was taken the day Willy Herrera drove over from the well known cigar area Calle Ocho, located in the Little Havana section of Miami to our side of Florida with the first delivery of our much anticipated “Bonita’s 18th Anniversary Cigar”.

The Bonita 18th is a flavorful medium bodied cigar rolled in the Entubado style and has a traditional Cuban style triple cap. The construction is superb! You can order them on our website:
Bonita’s 18th Anniversary Cigars

Welcome to CigarVlog!

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The saying goes “A picture is worth a thousand words” and that’s how the idea of our Cigar Vlog began! Not only a blog but also a Vlog!

CigarVlog

Bonita Smoke Shop began twenty years ago as a tiny sardine can sized tobacco store. Our goal then, and still is, was to provide our customers with the finest quality cigars at the lowest possible prices. Hope you’ll stop in often and find out what’s new, what’s happening and what’s smoking!

As we begin this new CigarVlog I can’t help but take a trip down Memory Lane and remember one of our first conversations with a cigar company. The shop was brand spanking new and totally empty! Time to begin filling it up with the finest cigars! Bob Lillienfield, of General Cigar, was one of the most helpful of gentlemen. He asked me “How may I be of service to you?” and we answered reply “To help us become the best smoke shop we can be”.How big was this dream store of ours at the time? It was one lone used jewelry showcase! We wish Bob was still around so we could show him how far a dream can go!  We sincerely thank him for believing in us.

Thanks! http://www.bonitasmokeshop.com