December 23rd, 2012 by Aizuddin Danian
Recently concluding a large project at work is as good a reason as any to really break out something special. I was visiting one of KL’s best humidors the other day, the Habanos Lobby Lounge, Federal Hotel, and stumbled across a really old box of 10 year old HDM Particulares in coffins. It was an [...]
August 5th, 2012 by Aizuddin Danian
Instead of a cigar review, let’s do some cigar porn this weekend. I wanted to take my cigar photography to the next level, to give the images i take a kick, more punch. It’s a lot more difficult that it looks, once you get into the details of it. You need to worry about tight [...]
July 1st, 2012 by Aizuddin Danian
This is the first post in a new category that i’ll be publishing once a month, My Cigar Blog’s Cigar of the Month (CotM). It will represent a cigar that i believe is smoking particularly well at the time the review is written. If you’re only going to smoke one cigar this month, the CotM [...]
June 10th, 2012 by Aizuddin Danian
Lovely even burn, all through the whole length of the cigar This is what happens when you chew on your cigar, the wrapper gets mashed up. Verdict: 91/100. I find it hard to name a better cigar of this vitola, gordito, as a daytime smoke. Light, flavoursome with a ton of smoke volume of flowery [...]
October 17th, 2011 by Aizuddin Danian
I’ve been slightly underwhelmed with the HDM Epicure #2 in the recent 24 months. Just as i’ve been disappointed with the Partagas Serie D4 over the same time. I blame it on these cigars being extremely popular, both in brand and vitola, thus leading to overproduction and quality control issues. But every once in a [...]