Cigar Aficionado is Starting to Get it

[Fumioso]

Originally Posted by CrazyFool

but after reading say 'Cigar Magazine' i just cant help but wish CA was on that level. CM stays focused on the largley interesting world of tobacco and cigars. there last issue was on Black (or Dark) Tobacco. they went through every cigar contributing country one at a time, from Brazil to Costa Rica to Cuba, explaining when the cuban seed was brought there, what geological areas grow what, what brands use leaf from where etc.

That was a great issue of CM-- and that article in particular. On the whole I've been really impressed with CM even though it seems to be a bit of a shill for JR Cigars. CA is fine when its focus is on cigars and the cigar industry, but unfortunately that seems to take up only about 20 percent of its content.

[IHT]

Originally Posted by LasciviousXXX

What are your thoughts on this?

wake me when those phucks who do the reviews smoke the ENTIRE cigar before passing judgement. right now, they smoke the first 1/4-1/2" of a cigar ONLY. how the fluck can you tell how good a cigar is by that?

i've had some NCs that taste pretty good up to the 1/2" point, then go directly in the sh*tter the rest of the way...

what about all the flavor changes you can get from a cuban? hard to find that out from the first 1/2", huh?

too bad the rest of the mag has turned into a GQ/Robb Report type.
that's why cigar forums are the best source of info.