Cigars Daily

Every family has one. The guy who sits down at Thanksgiving and ruins it before the rolls hit the table. And if your family smokes cigars, you know exactly which cigar snob I’m talking about, because he’s at your table too. Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE, four brand new cigars are coming to Thanksgiving dinner. But they’re not showing up as cigars. They’re showing up as the four cigar snobs every on...

Rare used to mean something. You heard a cigar name whispered at the lounge, you spent a year chasing it, and when you finally got one you saved it for a wedding, a baby, or the wedding you had because of the baby. Hell, half the fun was the chase. So here’s the thing. In the span of about two weeks, a Cuban limited edition that aficionados hunted for years just got moved into regular production,...

Hey everybody, I’m Tim. Somebody just put a number on your humidor. Not me, I’d never do that to you. But this week the cigar world got its very first valuation platform, a guide built for premium cigars the same way classic cars and old baseball cards have had for decades. Which means the dusty box of sticks your grandfather left you, the one you were too scared to smoke, might finally have a num...

Are women ruining cigars? I’ll tell you right now, I already know the answer. But by God, we’re going to talk about it anyway, and I brought the two people most qualified to settle it. Terrence is off on vacation, so for episode 450 I’m handing the mic to the wives. My wife Allison, better known around here as The Wrench, and Michelle, AKA Spicy Wifey, the woman who somehow puts up with Billy ever...

Hey everybody, I'm Tim. They say there's no such thing as a dumb question. But is that really true? Tonight we're putting it to the test, and I think I know just who can help me with that. Everyone at home. That's right, the Cigars Daily Nation is on the hook tonight. Drop ALL your cigar comments and questions, and we'll see if we can find a dumb one. And I'm not doin...

For about 60 years, Cuba has been the undisputed king of the cigar world. And right now, the king is in a really weird spot. Habanos is pulling in record money while the actual cigars keep getting harder to find. China keeps getting more involved every year. And here’s the part that blows my mind: half of the most famous cigar company on the planet belongs to somebody nobody can publicly name. By...

A few weeks back on this show, I went on the record. I said the Knuckle Sandwich Saguaro is easily the best one of the bunch. Not "one of the best." Not "up there." The best. And the Nation does not forget when I say things like that. So tonight, the Saguaro is here, I'm lighting it live, and you're holding me to every word. Here's what we're working with. T...

Some families run restaurants. Some families run farms. The Gomez family runs one of the most respected cigar operations on the planet, and tonight the youngest member of the house joins us LIVE. Litto Gomez Jr. of La Flor Dominicana is in the building, and the Nation gets to ask him anything. If you don't know the House of Gomez, here's the short version. Litto Sr. was a jeweler who rei...

Tonight the Wrench takes the stage. My wife Allison joins me live, and we’re doing something we’ve probably needed for a while: cigar marriage counseling. And YOU are the counselor. Cigars are the glue of this marriage. We smoke them on dates, we’ve built a life around this hobby, and this whole thing runs on the leaf. But living with the cigar guy comes with grievances, and tonight they’re all co...

Tonight is a celebration on Cigars Daily LIVE, and we've got more than one reason to raise a glass. The Sultan of the Sahara story has a new chapter. The project that honored one of our own, built around a rare Honduran-grown Cameroon-seed wrapper over a Mexican San Andres binder with fillers from Nicaragua, Honduras, and Brazil, now comes in a Robusto. And here's what makes this line ex...

You've heard me talk about him for years. Tonight the other half of Cigars Daily takes the hot seat. Jim is my business partner, my co-founder, and my father-in-law, and for more than eight years we've built this whole thing together. The show, the content, the community, all of it. Tonight he's live on the show and the Nation gets to ask him anything. How we started. What almost br...

Steve Saka is back on the show, and tonight he's spilling everything on the LecheBurra . If you were here for Episode 405, you saw the origin story. If you were here for Episode 436, you saw the whole crew revisit it together. Tonight is the deep dive. The man himself walks us through how this blend actually came to life, from the first conversation to the Cultivo Tonto wrapper to the decisio...

Tonight we're doing something special. The Espinosa Laranja Hybrid isn't out in the wild yet, and we're taking you inside the blend and the whole experience before it gets there. This is the fourth chapter of the Laranja story, a line that's been rocking the orange band for twelve years, and the Hybrid takes it somewhere new. An Ecuadorian Habano Oscuro wrapper over a Nicaragua...

Tonight we've got a special one. Nicholas Perdomo III joins us LIVE to talk about what it means to be the fourth generation of a cigar family and what it's like to blend side by side with your own father. Nicholas is the man behind the Perdomo Legacy line, he just picked up Up-and-Coming Person of the Year honors, and now he and his dad have taken the collaboration to a whole new level w...

Grab your go bag and check your humidor seals because the signs are everywhere. Nicaragua's president just announced there will be no more elections. Ever. That's the country that grows more premium cigar tobacco than anywhere else on the planet, and the drumbeat for sanctions in Washington has been getting louder for years. Meanwhile tariffs on Nicaraguan goods just climbed again. And i...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 438, Michael Herklots of Ferio Tego Cigars is joining us in the studio—and there may not be anybody in this industry who thinks more deliberately about the experience of a cigar. Michael is not new to this world. His career stretches back more than two decades through Davidoff, Nat Sherman, and now Ferio Tego. But what makes him especially interesting to me is the way...

I can prove the cigars in your humidor are fake. Actually, I can't. But here's the thing about the internet in 2026: I don't have to. I just have to say it with confidence and let the doubt do the rest. Welcome to the greatest era of skepticism in human history, where proof is optional and the accusation is the whole argument. Here's what got me on this. I spent last week on a...

If you were here for Episode 405, you already know the story. Steve Saka and I cooked up something completely unhinged together. Part genius, part madness, all heart. The Dunbarton LecheBurra Cigars Daily Edition was one of the most talked about projects we’ve ever been a part of, and tonight the entire crew is revisiting it live. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, Tim the Teefs, everybody’s go...

Tonight the whole crew is putting their palates on the line. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, and Tim the Teefs are each bringing a blind taste test challenge for the other two to compete in. That means nobody knows what they’re smoking, everybody thinks they’re an expert, and at least one of us is about to be humbled on camera. Billy, The Cock of the Walk is out of town on business this week...

Every cigar enthusiast has a list. Not the cigars you grab on a Tuesday because they're on the shelf and the price is right. The other list. The cigars you hunt for. The ones that are allocated, or limited, or priced at a level where buying one is a real decision. The ones where you call ahead to see if the shop has them in stock, or you drive across town because your usual spot never carries...

The Johnny Tobacconaut Maduro just landed on shelves and tonight we're cracking it open live with the whole crew. If you've been following the Room101 lineup, you already know what the original Tobacconaut brought to the table. Now Matt Booth and AJ Fernandez have taken that blend, wrapped it in a dark Nicaraguan maduro leaf, and pushed it into full-bodied territory. Earth, espresso, dar...

There's a moment in every cigar enthusiast's life where you look at your collection and think "this might be a problem." Maybe it was the second humidor. Maybe it was when you started hiding boxes from your spouse. Maybe it was when you realized you have cigars from 2019 that you forgot existed. Wherever that moment was for you, tonight we're talking about it. We built The...

Father's Day is America's 13th favorite holiday. Thirteenth. Behind Halloween. Behind Labor Day. Behind New Year's Eve AND New Year's Day, which honestly shouldn't even count as two separate holidays. It has a 67% approval rating, which means a third of the country actively does not approve of Father's Day. And this year it's not even the biggest thing happening...

Every cigar person has that shelf. The one in the back of the humidor that you don’t touch. The aged ones. The rare ones. The ones you bought for a special occasion that never came. The ones you keep rotating to the back because the moment never feels big enough. Tonight we’re done waiting. The whole Cigars Daily LIVE crew is pulling their most guarded, most precious, most untouchable cigars out o...

Two cigars. Same brand. Same blender. Completely different weight classes. Tonight we’re locking them both in the cage and only one is walking out with the win. One of these cigars was built for the backyard. Grab a box, throw it in the cooler, show up to the cookout and be everybody’s favorite person. The other one was built for a leather chair, a pour of something barrel-aged, and a night where...