Category: Stogie Stories
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La Aroma De Cuba Mi Amor Toro – Bury the Leaf Every once in a while a cigar ends up carrying more than tobacco. Sometimes it’s because the blend is unforgettable. Sometimes it’s because of where you were when you bought it. And sometimes it’s because a simple stop on the way to the airport…
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Rocky Patel Dark Star Robusto – Bury the Leaf Sometimes you get a bad one. That sentence is easy to write when the cigar costs four bucks and came out of a bargain bin. It gets considerably harder when you’re dealing with an established manufacturer, a roughly $10–$12 premium cigar, and a stick that had…
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Rocky Patel LB1 Fifty Five – Bury the Leaf Rocky catches a lot of shit, and a lot of it comes from guys who’ve only ever met him in catalog bundles and mystery samplers. This cigar is not that cigar. LB1 is a fat‑bottomed, thick‑waisted Habano built squarely for the “one good stick after work”…
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Nica Rustica Connecticut Broadleaf – Bury the Leaf Some cigars ease you in with a soft handshake. The Nica Rustica Connecticut Broadleaf Toro walked in, dropped a duffel bag of attitude on the table, and asked if you were serious about spending the evening together. A few draws in, I was honestly wondering if I…
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Aladino Corojo Robusto – Bury The Leaf There are cigars you buy because everybody talks about them. There are cigars you buy because the band looks like somebody spent the GDP of a small Caribbean nation designing it. And then there are cigars that get dropped into a Cigar of the Month Club shipment, disappear…
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Alec Bradley Black Magic Toro – Bury the Leaf The Alec Bradley Black Market Toro sounds like something you’d buy in a back alley with a burner phone and a fake name, but once you light it, the experience is a lot more grounded than the branding suggests. It opens with more body than most…
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E.P. Carrillo Pledge Sojourn Toro – Bury the Leaf The E.P. Carrillo Pledge Sojourn Toro smokes like a long, winding conversation that keeps changing its tone on you—bold, soft, then bold again. It’s complex, interesting, and absolutely worth experiencing, but not so locked‑in that I’m clearing space in the humidor to keep a box on…
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La Palina 125 Anos Toro – Bury the Leaf Anniversary cigars are funny things. Some brands celebrate milestones by pulling out every expensive leaf they can find, wrapping it in enough gold foil to blind you under lounge lighting, and charging enough money to make you wonder if the box comes with stock options. Others…
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Cain Dayton Box Pressed Toro – Bury the Leaf Some cigars ease you in with a soft handshake. The Nica Rustica Connecticut Broadleaf Toro walked in, dropped a duffel bag of attitude on the table, and asked if you were serious about spending the evening together. A few draws in, I was honestly wondering if…
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Macanudo Emissary France Robusto – Bury the Leaf The Macanudo Emissary France showed up looking like a spicy Habano bruiser and then spent an hour and a half proving it was actually a fresh‑palate assassin. What starts with briny minerality and Habano zing turns into dried fruit, lemon‑lime “flat Sprite” citrus, and a shockingly good…