The Cigar Authority

This week on The Cigar Authority, David Garofalo returns from Washington DC with information on FDA as well as a whole bunch of rumors going around the cigar industry… Also Mr. Jonathan decides to do a little bit of science when it comes to cutting a cigar.. Join us for Mr. J the science guy and a whole lot of rumors that will surely lead to one of our most controversial cigars… All this and more...

Since 1992 David Garofalo has been naming The Cigar of the Year, and for the 24th time, we will do so today; the day before Super Bowl Sunday in our time honored tradtion...We well smoke the 2014 COTY BG Meyer one last time and then light up the 2015 Cigar of the Year...Who will it be? Tune in and find out!

This week on The Cigar Authority we smoke a few rare cigars... The first one was included in the now sold out Cigar Authority Care Package... Made in 2012; 500 boxes of 50 are long gone.. So what does David do? He sends out the ones he had stashed away in his personal collection... In the second hour we light up a Cohiba XV550 Extra Vigoroso that was rolled by Dave on January 11, 2004. On top of a...

We are joined by the Editor In Chief from Cigar Journal Magazine who weighs in on Dave’s article where he rated the cigar magazines… What will Reinhold Widmayer have to say? Also rumour has it that KILO is no more, and we will have the details about it and how you can get a special deal on the remaining inventory… Tune in and find out how you can get two boxes for the price of 1. All this and more...

This week on The Cigar Authority we smoke a couple of cigars that were not part of the Care Package; but that isn’t the big story… The Big Story this week is the Fallout from David Garofalo’s Editorial on rating Cigar Magazine.. Some people weren’t happy but then again some loved it! We will also talk Humidors including Fireproof humidors, refrigerated humidors and humidifiers. We will also discus...

This week on The Cigar Authority we smoke two cigars that were so good they got two #1’s. Coming in at #11 on the Cigar Aficionado list was Hammer + Sickle Tradition and #11 in Cigar Journal was La Boheme from Boutique Blends… We also hear from Old Fart Freddy for the last time and hear from Dave on Rating Cigar Magazine… Join us with special guest Eric Hanson of Hammer + Sickle

We smoke a Cuban in the first hour of the show, the Verueros Entretiempos and Dave gives us his state of the industry address. In the second hour we light up something from La Flor Dominicana as Jon Carney will join us for the duration of the show…  Join us for the 300th episode of madness and mayhem on The Cigar Authority.

This week on The Cigar Authority we recap the Cigar Aficionado Top 25 and check our scorecards to see who had the best predictions. We also tell the story about how a Cigar Bar almost cost David his business…. It’s the last show of 2015 we got all the usual shenanigans.. So join us live or catch the podcast! Join us for all the madness known as The Cigar Authority!

This week on The Cigar Authority we light up another cigar from the December Care Package, the Nestor Miranda Connecticut Coffee Break. We discuss out the blend came to be and how it has ties a member of The Cigar Authority… We also break down the Winter 2015 issue of Cigar Journal which features Avo Uvezian on the cover. We discus there 2015 awards and maybe even mention their Top 25 countdown. I...

It’s that time of year again when Cigar Aficionado comes out with their list of Top 25 cigars.. We will share with you our predictions of what we believe their list will be… Also we will be smoking the Aging Room 356 which was part of The Cigar Authority Care Package for the month of December. All this and more on The Cigar Authority

This weekend we welcome our friend Jack Torano back to The Cigar Authority as we smoke the first cigar in the December Care Package... The Roberto Duran Signature... We will catch up with Jack find out how 2015 was for Duran Cigars and what 2016 will hold...Also Dave returns from Art Basel in Miami and lets us know about that event and his rubbing elbows with various manufactures in the 305...All...

This week we start off by smoking the last cigar from the November Care Package… It was Cigar of the Year for Two Guys Smoke Shop and The Cigar Authority.. BG Meyer Standard Issue. We also welcome the Chairman of Operations of Cigars For Warriors, Storm Boen and we will let him now how many cigars have been raised so far for his amazing charity. Lastly, we disclose the Contenders for Cigar of the...

This week on The Cigar Authority we welcome the man who has been a guest more than anyone else, Victor Vitale and we talk Tortuga which was part of November Care Package... We also have a studio audience full of Freemasons and we talk to one of them to find out more about this secret society. Who knows we might just find out who killer Kennedy and where Hoffa is actually buried... Join us for all...

This week we take a look at a couple of cigars from 2003 that were part of The Cigar Authority Care Package and find out why David hung on to them for so long and why he decided to share them with everyone…. We also go through The Cigar Authority mailbags that have been growing to epic proportions… All this and more on the madness known as The Cigar Authority.

This week we welcome to the studio Steve Saka; the owner of Dumbarton Tobacco & Trust as well as the creator of the much-anticipated release Sobremesa. We will smoke the first blend of the cigar that was not chosen while in the second hour we will smoke the official release and share with you our thoughts. We also welcome Derek “Acey” Stewart who is one of the founders of the hottest Facebook grou...

First there was Bruins vs Canadiens, then there was Lakes vs Celtics and Yankees vs Red Sox... Now with the Cuban embargo getting closer to its demise the next great rivalry could be Cohiba vs Cohiba... We light up the Cohiba Red Dot from the Dominican Republic along side the Cuban Cohiba and tell you which one we think is better.. We will also address FDA and OMB and what we know so far and the r...

This week we dig deep into David’s humidor and smoke a couple of cigars that have a collective 34 years worth of age on them. Barry picked one, and Dave picked the other. You will be surprised what they chose that will serve as a testament to how much the cigar industry has changed. We will also define what it means now that the FDA Deeming Regulations are in the hands of the OMB; address some ema...

This week we welcome Scott Kolesaire; the brand manager for Avo and Zino via remote. We’ll sit down and talk with Scott about the rebranding, Syncro and the upcoming 90th birthday of the man himself Avo Uvezian. All this and the usual shenanigans known as The Cigar Authority.

On this week of The Cigar Authority we welcome into the studio Nick Melillo aka Nick R Agua as we smoke El Gueguense and discuss his career from cigar shop owner to running the Drew Estate factory before starting his own Foundation Cigar Company. Also, Dave discusses the history of geek sticks, we catch up on the mail bags and all the usual madness known as The Cigar Authority.

The October Care Package is now in the hands of our faithful listeners and you can order next months package now.. The first cigar from October is the Byron Cigar which we will smoke with Nelson Alfonso. Nelson Alfonso is the creative force behind Behike as well as his own brands Atabey, Byron and Bandolero. We will also recap the Two Guys 30th Anniversary event which happened on Wednesday night a...

In perhaps one of our most anticipated shows, we smoke cigar #4 of the September Care Package and reveal who made the cigar. What we can tell you in advance is that the cigar was part of our 25th Anniversary celebration and has 5 years of age on it.. As for the rest be sure to tune in. We also have some cigar news and we will discuss the future of mail order with the announcement this week that Fe...

It’s a busy week on The Cigar Authority as we welcome Eric Hanson of Hammer + Sickle the maker of the cigar once known as Icon. We will light up the Trademark Maduro which is part of the The Cigar Authority care package. In addition to cigars Eric Hanson will tell us about their line of vodka and we will smoke a cigar from the vault called Second Growth. We will take a look at why Poker and Cigar...

This week we take a cigar from The Cigar Authority Care Package, the Davidoff Escurio Robusto as our first cigar. We talk with Chuck Morrison and see if he got his super bowl ring....We are also joined by The Cigar Authority version of Regis Philbin and David Brenner as Victor Vitale joins us. We also break down the new issue of Cigar Journal and all the usual shenanigans known as The Cigar Author...

It's been a crazy week at The Cigar Authority and we welcome Omar de Frias of Fratello Cigars into the studio where he will join us live as we recaps the Dance Off between him and his wife vs Mr. Jonathan and his wife...Then we will dig into Dave's latest editorial called Remembering the Cigar Boom where we will look back to the 1990s and the cigar craze that led many of us down this path of enjoy...

This week on The Cigar Authority we are joined by Stephen Adib of Cuba Rica Tabacalera who makes brands Via Havana, Testarosso, Spirt of Art, Barabbas and the Cuba Rica Limitada. Also with football season right around the corner we talk a little football with Chuck Morrison who works for the New England Patriots. We also discuss the new releases coming in from IPCPR and what it means for some bran...