Dogwatch Cigar Radio

This week Bob and Dale announce their plans for a DogWatch Cigar Radio Herf on July 27th and July 28th at Tranquilo Cigars in Melbourne Florida. Tickets are $35 and only 25 spots are available for this intimate gathering. Friday night will feature a live version of DWCR with everyone in the crowd experiencing the Cigar of the Week and the Unbanded cigar. Saturday we will have a Tasting seminar, meetings with manufacturers, lunch and door prizes. More is in the planning stage and additional details will be coming out shortly. Each registrant will receive a gift bag worth more than the $35 admission fee. We are still finalizing details but to reserve your spot now, email Liz@cigarmedia.tv. Also this week, Simone Bergese, Potomac Point's Winemaker/Vineyard Manager and Ron Barker of CigarVolante, distributor of Panacea Cigars, conduct a cigar and wine pairing featuring Potomac Point's new ruby port. Big Pete from Australia calls in on the herf line to review the Alec Bradley Tempus. Listener Rob Levine w

This week Bob and Dale discuss the finer points of large ring gauge cigars. Bob interviews Tom Person from CommonWealth Cedar Spills. Commonwealth Cedar Spills are specifically designed for cigar smokers to get the most out of their cigars by enabling the ignition process to start slowly. During the live show, Tom gives away a personalized box of Commonwealth Cedar Spills to Kip Fisher in the chatroom. Bob and Dale also give another Cigar Rights of America legislative update. Executive Producer Liz asks listeners to help get Cigarmony's patented Humidity Bead System® on the shelves of Walmart. Go to http://www.getontheshelf.com/product/2550/Humidity-Bead-System and vote daily (You can vote twice daily if you vote by text and facebook.) The Cigar of the Week is the My Father Cigars Le Bijou Box Pressed Torpedo, another great cigar that was rated as one of the 25 finest cigars of 2011 by Cigar Journal. The Unbanded Cigar, JML (Jose M. Losa) 1902 Gran Reserva was provided by D.J. Shalifoe. Check out the

Dale congratulates Bob on becoming a Tobacconist University Certified Master Tobacconist. Dale and Bob are joined by guest host Craig Schneider. DogWatch is pleased to welcome another new sponsor this week: CommonWealth Cedar Spills. Listener Stan Wojculewski writes in with a question on cigar flavor. Three chatroom participants win prizes during the live show. Adam Zilinski wins a five-pack of La Tradicion Cubana cigars. Warren Kearney wins a box of CommonWealth Cedar Spills and Alan Oakley wins a Vega Fina hat. Bob, Dale and Craig give a Cigar Rights of America legislative update. DogWatch asks its listeners to help get Cigarmony's patented Humidity Bead System® on the shelves of Walmart. Go to http://www.getontheshelf.com/product/2550/Humidity-Bead-System and vote daily (You can vote twice daily if you vote by text and facebook.) Big Pete from Down Under reviews the Cigar of the Week, the CAO OSA SOL, rated as one of the 25 finest cigars of 2011 by Cigar Journal. The Unbanded Cigar, the John Bul

DogWatch welcomes a new sponsor this week: CigarVolante and Flatbed Cigars (makers of Panacea cigars). Listener Dan Crouch writes in with feedback on the Cigar Rights of America (CRA) cigar sampler that he just received. Bob and Dale discuss some of the great things that CRA is doing for smokers. The Cigar of the Week is the Rocky Patel Sungrown. The Unbanded Cigar, the Famous Nicaraguan Selection 5000, was provided by Jay LeDou. Jon French is the winner of a silver Palio Cutter in February's contest. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Enter March's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. The February contest winner is Jo

Dale and Executive Producer Liz interview Ron Barker of CigarVolante, Paul Bush of Flatbed Cigars, (makers of Panacea cigars) and Katherine Dey of Bailey's Pub & Grille in Virginia where the Southside Cigar Club was holding an event sponsored by Pop's Tobacco. Topics include The Virginia Wine and Cigar Trail, the upcoming Tribute to the Wounded Warrior event and cigar pairings. Bob gives a special review of the ProCigar Festival in the Dominican Republic from which he just returned. Listeners Chad Miller and Dan Crouch write in with a couple of cigar blending and flavor questions. The Cigar of the Week is the Alec Bradley Jazz. The Unbanded Cigar, the Perdomo Slow Aged 826 Natural Robusto, was provided by Dan Crouch. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Enter March's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing addres

This week Mark Neff of Cigarmony joins Bob and Dale to talk about his recently patented and revolutionary Cigar Sciences Humidity Bead System. Vote to help Mark get it on Walmart's shelves! Voting starts on March 7th and you can find out more by going to http://www.cigarsciences.com/. Mark sticks around to help host the show and answer questions from the chatroom. He also gives a couple of great cigar reviews. Stuminator, Roger Miller and Jay LeDou write in with cigar questions. Angry Bill calls in on the herf line. The Cigar of the Week is the Monte Pascoal Double Corona. The Unbanded Cigar, the Gran Habano Azteca Fuerte Robusto, was provided by Jay Ledou Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Enter February's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pi

This week was all about thanking DogWatch fans who tune in on Friday nights to watch the taping of the show. Over 20 prizes were given away to live viewers who were interacting with Bob, Dale, Liz, Craig and Colin in the chatroom. Prizes included an unbanded sampler pack from Jeff Curtis and several 5-packs from Wes Gensel of Monte Pascoal. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. The Cigar of the Week is the El Galan from Aroma de Vuelta Abajo, Inc. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, Henry Clay Breva ala Conserva was provided by long-time listener Dan Crouch. Dan not only provides the unbanded this week, but also writes in about cigar samplers. Big Pete writes in about pairing champagne with cigars. Enter February's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subj

Dale shares some experiences from his Cigar Tourism trip to Nicaragua and Honduras. Bob and Dale conduct live interviews with Paul Anctil, owner of the Sans Soucy Winery and Ron Barker from Cigar Volante who reps Panacea cigars. Ron and Paul sponsored a wine pairing and online herf of Panacea cigars. Of course, Bob and Dale participated by making the Panacea Azul Cameroon the Cigar of the Week. Learn about the Sans Soucy Winery Legacy wine. This hand-crafted wine honors Southern Virginia's tobacco “legacy” by using grapes grown in former tobacco fields that are then dried in traditional Virginia tobacco barns. Zedman from Canada gives a review of the Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure Especial from Cuba. Two listeners check in: Adam Parsons lets us know about a great season 7 episode of South Park on smoking bans. Dave from Toledo responds to Bob's earlier comments on sampler packs. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, Tatuaje Black Petite Lancero, was suggested by Jeff Curtis. T

The Cigar of the Week is the Epifania by El Primer Mundo. An interview with Sean Williams of El Primer Mundo is rebroadcast. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, the Ashton Aged Maduro #40, was suggested by Jeff Curtis. Bob and Dale respond to emails from Dan Crouch and David Dennis . Enter January's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. The January contest winner will be announced on the February 3rd show. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Join us on February 3rd for the Panacea Cigars Cyber Herf. Panacea is promoting a live cyber herf with Dogwatch on Feb. 3rd when the Panacea Azul Camero

The Cigar of the Week is the Nestor Miranda Grand Reserve. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, Tampa Sweethearts No 185, was provided by listener Jay LeDou. Roger from Texas calls in on the Herfline. Enter January's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Join us on February 3rd for the Panacea Cigars Cyber Herf. Panacea is promoting a live cyber herf with Dogwatch on Feb. 3rd when the Panacea Azul Cameroon is the Cigar of the week. Click here for the invitation from Panacea. You won't want to miss the live version of show #365 on February 10th. In honor

Bob and Dale are joined by Craig Schneider, a regular guest host on cigarmedia.tv. The Cigar of the Week is the Camino Real Serie 6. Bob interviews Jon Van Bilderbeek of Route 45 Cigars, the maker of Camino Real. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, the San Cristobal Lancero, was provided by listener Jeff Curtis. Listeners Colin Ganley and David Zulch write in. Enter January's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Join us on February 3rd for the Panacea Cigars Cyber Herf. Panacea is promoting a live cyber herf with Dogwatch on Feb. 3rd when the Panacea Az

Bob and Dale discuss bulls, box presses abd the story behind the blend, Enter January's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EDT. You won't want to miss the live version of show #365 on February 10th. In honor of having a show for listeners to download on every day of the year, Bob, Dale, Liz and Craig Schneider will be giving out sampler packs of some of their favorite cigars. But you must be in the chatroom during the live show to win so be sure to tune in on February 10th. Cigar of the Week - Thunder by Nimish - Robusto The Rocky Patel Thunder is blended by Nimish Desai, Rocky’s cousi

Bob and Dale are joined by Professor Doug Fiore, a regular columnist on cigarmedia.tv. The three cigar aficionados have an entertaining and informative discussion about their ten favorite cigars of 2011. The Cigar of the Week, The La Palina El Diario, receives outstanding reviews from Bob, Dale and Doug. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, the AJ Fernandez Fresh Rolled, was provided by listener Jay Ledou. Tim Banic is this month's winner of a silver Palio. Enter January's Palio contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EDT. You won't want to miss the live version of show #

Bob and Dale announce a couple of special upcoming shows.  Next week, Bob, Dale and Professor Doug Fiore, a regular columnist on cigarmedia.tv, will share their picks for the top cigars of 2011. Also, you won't want to miss the live version of show #365 on February 10th.  In honor of having a show for listeners to download on every day of the year, Bob, Dale, Liz and Craig Schneider will be giving out sampler packs of some of their favorite cigars.  But here is the kicker - you must be in the chatroom during the live show to win. Dale talks about the CigarTourism.com trip to Nicaragua that he is planning to take in 2012 and invites listeners to join him and Colin Ganley for an informative and entertaining time.  The Cigar of the Week, The Vault Liga A-008 by Torano, was provided by Duque Cigar Company in Indialantic, Florida. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, the NHC Surrogates Bone Crusher, was provi

Bob and Dale are joined by listener Derek Mathews who discusses how to repurpose a wine cooler into a 'wineador' for cigars. - Liz shares what else she has been smoking this week and asks another newbie question - this time about lighting cigars. The Cigar of the Week, the Arturo Fuente Special Selection, was provided by Duque Cigar Company in Indialantic, Florida. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, the Man O' War Puro Authentico was provided by listener Camryn Freeze. Enter November's Silver Palio Cutter Contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EDT. Cigar of t

Bob and Dale are joined by Craig Schneider in this week's show. They answer another newbie question from Liz about what causes a cigar to burn unevenly. Listener Dan Crouch recommends a couple of value cigars. David Zulch, one of the winners of a 5-pack of La Tradicion Cubana cigars in last month's contest, writes in to thank DWCR and Luis Sanchez. The Cigar of the Week, the Xen by Nish Patel, was provided by Duque Cigar Company in Indialantic, Florida. The cigar featured in the What's My Band segment of the show, the Perdomo Patriarch Maduro Epicure, was suggested by listener Jeff Curtis. Enter November's Silver Palio Cutter Contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) To see the contest pictures, click on the Contest icon on the www.cigarmedia.tv home page. Remember you must re-enter each month to be eligible to win. Check out the live show! Go to http://www.cigar

Bob and Dale discuss the origin of the word "herf" and answer a newbie question from Liz about why different sized cigars of the same blend vary in taste. The Cigar of the Week, the Brick by Torano, was provided by Duque Cigar Company in Indialantic, Florida. Duque's is running a special right now on one of Liz's favorites, the Xikar Ash Can. The small size fits in a car cup holder; its stainless steel construction makes it durable and clean looking; the 2 spring-shaped cigar holders make it easy to use while driving; and the screw-on lid stops odors from leaking and allows you to store a lit cigar without worry. If you don't smoke in your car, it makes a nice personal-sized inside or outside ash tray. Buy it now for only $16.99 - the lowest price anywhere. The cigar featured in the "What's My Band" segment of the show, the Davidoff Private Stock No. 1, was provided by listener George Edmonson. Enter November's Silver Palio Cutter Contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to th

Craig Rich is the lucky winner of a Burl Palio cutter in this month's Pailo Cutter Contest.  Five additional winners were awarded five-packs of La Tradicion Cubana Coronas provided by Luis Sanchez to commemorate the 16th anniversary of La Tradicion Cubana.  The five-pack winners are:  Dana Poling, Gary Fritz, Dave & Sharon Zulch, Rodney Duke and Chris Cannon.  The Cigar of the Week, the Berger & Argenti Mooch, was provided by Duque Cigar Company in Indialantic, Florida.  Duque's is running a special right now on one of Liz's favorites, the Xikar  Ash Can.  The small size fits in a car cup holder; its stainless steel construction makes it durable and clean looking; the 2 spring-shaped cigar holders make it easy to use while driving; and the screw-on lid stops odors from leaking and allows you to store a lit cigar without worry. If you don't smoke in your car, it makes a nice personal-

Bob and Dale welcome a new sponsor to the show -Stogie Boys, America's fastest growing online cigar retailer. Bob, Dale and Liz answer a question from Wes (FragmagnetEOD) and his wife, Dominique, about what smokers mean when they describe a cigar's taste. (Click here to read Liz's written answer.) The discussion broadens into how altitude and temperature affect cigar tastes and smells. Listener Nelson Pidgeon offers a tip on eliminating cigar smell from a room. The Cigar of the Week, the Padron 2000 Robusto Maduro 5 x 50, was provided by Duque Cigar Company in Indialantic, Florida. On "What's hot? What's not? What's next?" Liz interviews Vincent Duran from the Little Havana Cigar Factory on Calle Ocho in Little Havana, Miami. The cigar featured in the "What's My Band" segment of the show, the Little Havana Overruns "Small Batch," was provided by listener Jay Ledou. Enter November's Palio Cutter Contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget

In honor of Veteran's Day, Bob, Dale and Guest Host Craig Schneider dedicate this week's show to all veterans and active service men and women. The Cigar of the Week, the Joya de Nicaragua Antano Dark Corojo, was generously provided by Duque Cigar Companyin Indialantic, Florida. Listener Dan Crouch writes a review of the "Chigringo Inaugural Vintage" cigar, a blend developed by Craig Schneider that is no longer in production. The cigar featured in the "What's My Band" segment of the show, Kinky Friedman's Kinky Christo, was provided by Chris from Saturnrising.com. Thanks Chris! Enter November's Palio Cutter Contest by sending a photo of you or your friends enjoying a cigar to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. (Don't forget to include your mailing address and type "Palio" on the subject line.) More winners this month! In addition to awarding the Palio Cutter to some lucky listener, Bob and Dale will also be giving away five 5-packs of La Tradicion Cubana Coronas provided by Luis Sanchez to commemorate the 16th anni