61. Kaplowitz Radio (Rebroadcast)

"Book-end yer week-end w/ Kaplowitz Radio."

Originally aired: Monday, June 25, 2018



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Providencia Cigars The Hostage - Cigar Review by Kaplowitz

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Providencia The Hostage
WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres
BINDER: Indonesian
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Honduran

FORMAT: Toro, box-pressed
ORIGIN: Danli, Honduras La Pequena Vega Cigar Factory
STRENGTH: Full

NOTES: Notes are too dense to be sharp -- but are edgy af. Strong, too. Like an emo kid on the football squad. A driving dark chocolate/burnt brownie with an almost cloyingly sweet Purple Drank undertone. Then darkly charred grains as far as the eye can see. Airily stuffed, quickly rounding box-press. Burn is jagged but shy of requiring retouch. and threatens to blister once. Draw is open & evenly-so. The strength here is unsettled & unsettling.

FINAL GRADE: B-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59

Sadly, I feel this is a step back for Providencia, who seemed to be getting better with each of their previous offerings. You can find my reviews of those HERE.

"The Hostage is a nom de tobacco in homage to founder Jim Faber's experience of being kidnapped in Honduras. Is it "the" Honduras? Like The Bronx? I wanna say yeah. The cigar is to be offered in a singular box-pressed Toro format w/ San Andres top-leaf over Indonesian binder & Nicaraguan, Hondy guts. It's set to flesh out the full side of Providencia's portfolio spectrum, in terms of palate. it will be available in 10ct. boxes w/ a total production of 1,050 rolled."

The following via www.Halfwheel.com:

“Through my soccer work and mission in Honduras I got close to the mayor of the town and was eventually asked if I would consider helping young members of a gang get off the street through my soccer camps and school,” Faber said in a press release. “Accepting the challenge, I developed a friendship with the young players and their parents as we helped to turn their lives by way of soccer.”

He said that one day at the field, he was abducted by some men who forced him into a car, and with the assistance of some of the kids’ fathers who stepped in to help him amidst a flurry of gun fire, he was eventually able to get free.

“I was later told by the U.S. military investigator that a Mexican gang had moved into the country and they believed it was these gang members that tried to kidnap me,” Faber added.

Hi, me again, Kap. Seems like I'd rather smoke something to forget that than to remember it. 

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Kaplowitz Media Cigar of the Year Honorable Mentions (2017-18)

"Why not Kaplowitz?"

The dust has settled now on the K/M Cigar of the Year hustle-bustle. OR HAS IT? In accordance with my own crippling/stifling process, only one cigar from each Cigars of the Month posting got through to the next round. But which ones were the runners-up? The runner-ups? I already talked about the Tabac Cigar Co. Muestra de Tabac Double Claro Habano Perfecto on 84. Kaplowitz Radio Monday: Special CIGAR OF THE YEAR PODCAST EP.isode (2017-18).

So there's that... & these...
[remember these are all links to full reviews]

Oct. 2017: Gilberto Oliva Reserva

Nov. 2017: Espinosa Murcielago
Dec. 2017: Henry Clay Stalk Cut

Jan. 2018: Alec Bradley Post-Embargo

Feb./March 2018: Ceron Sumatra

April 2018: Illusione Cigars ~ultra~ op. no. 3

May 2018: Tatuaje Tattoo

June 2018: Caldwell Cigars Eastern Standard Dos Firmas

July 2018: Cornelius & Anthony Daddy Mac

August 2018: Edition One Cloud Hopper No. 53

Sept. 2018: Tabac Cigar Co. Muestra de Tabac

Must read: Kaplowitz Media Cigar of the Year 2017-18

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84. Kaplowitz Radio Monday: Special CIGAR OF THE YEAR PODCAST EP.isode (2017-18)

La Aurora Preferidos Emerald in Double Perfecto No. 2 (Tubos) - Cigar Review by Kaplowitz

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La Aurora Preferidos Emerald
WRAPPER: Sumatra
BINDER: Valle del Cibao Dominican
FILLER: Valle del Cibao Dominican, Brasil, Nicaragua, Peru

FORMAT: 554 Double Perfecto
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic
STRENGTH: Medium-Full

NOTES: Darkly sweet and oily with a delayed & deep warm pepper-spice. Rich roasted cedar and nuts around a dense tobacco core. Latte nethers (Better latte than nether). (It's wordplay, Gentlepersons.) Lively & luxurious. Dense but not heavy. Pretty fucking pricey & well-worth it. Draw is excellent, burn-line needs slight flicked Bic guidance.

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59

"Es un cigarro terroso, picante y complejo. Una fumada de cuerpo medio con una capa de Ecuador cultivada del sol muy sedosa." Reads the copy @ www.LaAurora.com.do -- which ran thru Google Translate is: "It is an earthy, spicy and complex cigar. A medium body smoked with a layer of Ecuador cultivated from the very silky sun." This is maybe poetry at its finest and I believe no other copy re: cigars should be written ever again. "... from the very silky sun," indeed. *swoon*

I think that prolly ill-translated line impregnated me, I do.

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