About

I'm Eric... a guy in East Tennessee who smokes a few cigars a week on the deck and got tired of reviews that never met a cigar they didn't like.

This site has no relationships with cigar companies to protect. That's the point. I buy at retail like you do, I smoke it like you would... sometimes with full attention down by the creek, sometimes half-distracted... and I write down what actually happened, including the relights, the tongue bite, and the ones I put down two-thirds in.

One thing worth saying up front: this is one palate. Mine. When I call a cigar harsh or flat or not worth the money, I'm telling you what it did to me, on my deck, that night. You could smoke the same stick and love it, and neither of us would be wrong. What I can promise is that I'm the same guy across every review... so if you disagree with me twice, you know which way to adjust everything else I write.

I'm also about a year into this. My palate is still developing and I say so when it matters. A cigar I re-smoke a year later can move a tier, and when it does, the review shows the old verdict next to the new one instead of quietly overwriting it.

Two leather chairs and a small round table holding cigars and cutters, in a wood-paneled corner — The corner where the verdicts get written.

The pledge

Coverage here is never for sale. No review-for-product deals, no sponsored scores, no preview approval, ever. Every review wears a badge showing where the stick came from... my money, a steal, a gift, a retailer throw-in... and every verdict is judged at street price, not what I happened to pay. Every cigar reviewed on this site so far was bought with my own money. Two pieces of gear weren't (a cutter my wife gave me, a lighter a retailer tossed in a box), and their badges say so. If the mix ever changes, the badges will tell you before I do.

What's here

46 cigar reviews and 13 gear reviews, one stick or one tool at a time, on a four-tier scale that's judged at street price.
Guides: short "which one should I buy" lists where every pick is something reviewed here. No padding with cigars I haven't smoked.
Learn: 137 plain-English reference pages on wrappers, origins, sizes, storage, technique, and health, plus a glossary and the who-makes-what factory table.
From the Deck: positions, methodology, and the tests I actually run.
Deals: a daily post of the deals worth your money, each one checked against my reviews, with a free email if you'd rather have it land in your inbox.

New reviews show up when I smoke something worth writing about. No schedule, no filler. The site runs with no ads and, as of today, no affiliate links; if that ever changes, the disclosure page and a tag next to the link will say so.

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