Size: 5 x 48
Wrapper: Nicaraguan-grown Habana Criollo �98
Binder and Filler: Cuban Seed Nicaragua and Dominican Republic
Strength: Medium
Price: About $5.00 a pop

Behind The Stick:

One of the things that took me back was when I first saw these cigars I initially thought of Don Francisco E. Fonseca who first established his factory in 1892, in Havana, Cuba and was wondering if they were one in the same. A fun aspect I heard was that the company actually was started when a debt to the family had been paid in tobacco, a business of purchasing leaves began shortly there after. The brand Fonseca was registered in 1907, quickly becoming a huge success and so Don Francisco began different techniques on packaging and marketing – one of which was by wrapping his cigars in a fine Japanese tissue paper and packaging the cigars into tin tubes. After his death in 1930, Don Francisco’s wife Dona Teresa Boetticher continued to run the business but merged it with T. Castaneda and G. Montero to form the new company we now know today.

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Well holy shit! I had no idea there were going to be this many people adding others into this contest! Guess this means there will be another contest in the near future!

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Size: 6 1/2 x 52
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra
Binder and Filler: Dominican
Strength: Full
Price: Just under $10.00 a single

Behind The Stick:

The La Flor Dominicana, a name that since the cigar boom of the early 1990′s has not only become one of the larger ‘new guys’ to the cigar scene but also has been producing some amazing smokes in the past few years. One of the larger aspects that allowed the company to expand the way it has is directly related to the husband and wife team, Litto Gomez and Ines Lorenzo-Gomez. Rather than focusing on the business in a number aspect of production vs sales that so many other companies get caught up in, they were more interested in learning about the business and about cigars them selves – the ability and knowledge to produce quality, not quantity.

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Size: 5� x 54
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut
Binder and Filler: Cuban Seed Nicaraguan aged for 3 years
Strength: Medium – Full
Price: Just under $4.00 a pop

Behind The Stick:

This cigar is a release from the the famous Perdomo family and company, for a bit more of a detailed history on them please look at my review of the Perdomo Squared. I was able to pick this cigar up thanks to Cigars Direct in their cigar of the month program and was able to locate another pair at a local B&M.

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I started the counter August 11th 2009 and slowly saw it climb – for myself at alarming rates. Some of the original viewers may have read about or even been winners in previous contests when I reached 1000 and 2000 viewers which at the time, were pretty big milestones for me. Now I sit back and am seeing over fifteen hundred people view my site, each week. . . This is just mind blowing to me. When I first started, I was expecting a few hundred views a month but nothing like it is now. I know I am still a small fry in the whole scheme of things, but when another site had their 10,000 unique viewer contest they had been up and running for over a year, so although I may not be a ‘big dog’ just yet, I hope I’m nipping at their heels! haha

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