We’ve recently restocked several selections from Rocky Patel: Edge Maduro Edge Corojo Edge Sumatra Edge Habano Edge Lite Ray Lewis #52 Vintage 1990 Vintage 1992 Vintage 1999 Vintage 2003 Decade Cameroon In addition to these more popular Rocky Patel products, we can special order anything from their portfolio.
Category: Cigar News
Broken Web Site
After a set of updates by our web host company, there are several ‘broken’ links, photos that won’t render and alike. We are working on fixing everything ASAP. If you can’t find what you need, feel free to email or call us. — Reverend Mike
Cellophane & Your Cigars
Why are a majority of the cigars on the market today wrapped in cellophane and what, if anything, does that mean to you? The primary reasons manufacturers go to the expense and trouble to wrap each cigar in it’s own cellophane cocoon is mostly based on protection of the cigar from damage. On the journey that cigar takes from the…
Personally Selected & Expertly Curated
I get a lot of people asking me “You don’t carry ________?” With tens of thousands of cigar choices available on today’s market, we can’t carry everything AND, even if we did, it really would be a disservice to our customers. You see, the average consumer has to make a whopping 35,000 choices each and every day. That’s a lot…
Wondering What’s Up?
It has been a whirlwind week and a half and I’m just catching my breath. Millions of business fail every year and Chesapeake Cigar & Tobacco Company is one of them. Our monthly rent obligation outstripped our income and we had no choice but to shutter the business as it existed in Edgewater. That’s the bad news. The good news…
Pairing Cigars With Beer
Of all the questions I get while helping customers in the humidor, the question of what cigar pairs well with “beer” is sometimes the most difficult to answer. The reason it’s difficult is that it depends — depends on the beer. While it’s hard to stray too far off the mark when pairing the typical cigar with the typical beer,…
Kafie Trading Company Cigars
I come across hundreds of new cigars a year through social media and blogs. Most are the passion project of some cigar fan that cobbled enough money together to stroke their own ego by having their toe dipped into the vast ocean that is the premium cigar universe, but few do it consistently right at a level high enough to produce…
Perdomo Habano Bourbon Barrel Aged
For those that have been fans of Perdomo for a while, the name Perdomo Habano isn’t new. But, the Perdomo Habano Bourbon Barrel Aged is! Perdomo introduced this latest iteration of their Habano line at the IPCPR Tobacco Show in July 2015. They began to ship to a handful of retailers in October of 2015 and have been steadily increasing…
NEW! La Aurora 1961 & 1987
La Aurora, the Dominican Republic’s oldest cigar factory, has just released two new cigars that we’re very excited about — La Aurora 1961 and La Aurora 1987. La Aurora 1961 The 1961 features a Dominican corojo wrapper over an Ecuadorian binder and fillers from the Cibao Valley in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. These tobaccos come together to produce a…
Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan Barberpole 2016
Just in time for St Patrick’s Day, Chesapeake Cigar brings you the limited edition Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan Barberpole 2016! “This year, I wanted to create a totally different version of the Filthy Hooligan,” said Alan Rubin, president of Alec Bradley, “The 2016 blend will have a much wider appeal, and those who loved the two previous versions will…