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This week Bob and Dale celebrate July 4th. ER Doc calls in and shares his review of the Entubar. The Cigar of the Week is the Ernesto Perez Carillo New Wave Connecticut. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur Limited Edition. DJ Shalifoe calls in to report on his new Burl Palio Cutter that he won in April'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. Cigar of the Week - E.P. Carrillo New Wave Connecticut. The New Wave, which both Bob and Dale enjoyed, is a favorite of Liz's. Country of Origin: Dominican Republic Brand Name: E.P. Carrillo Binder: Nicaragua Filler: Dominican Republic, Nicaragua What else have you been smokin' Dale? Siglo Limited Reserve Siglo VI - 6” x 54 - From the Nica Altadis factory comes this line of cigars borrowing on the Cuban Cohiba Siglo line name. Filler is Dom. Rep. and Nicaraguan, binder is Nicaragua grown Broadl

This week's show features an interview with Leslie B. Mann, Executive Vice President of Colibri. Bob and Dale discuss a news item sent in by listener Jay Ledou on the recovery of Cuba's cigar industry. Other topics include the retirement of Jose Blanco, master blender for La Aurora, and the latest Sam Leccia news. The Cigar of the Week is the Alec Bradley SCR, Select Cabinet Reserve Corona. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the H. Upmann Vintage Cameroon Toro 6 x 50. 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. Cigar of the Week - Alec Bradley SCR, Select Cabinet Reserve Corona. The careful selection of mid- and upper-priming tobaccos were hand-picked to create the rich and balanced SCR line. The limited yield, dark caramel colored wrapper adorns a skillful selection of premium leaves from the valleys of Central America, creating a perfect union of balance and flavor. SCR is presented in

This week Bob and Dale discuss an email sent in from Bill in Rochester NY on internet sites that sell cigars at prices far below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. Check out Professor Fiore's June 20th column and Bob's written response to the column for more on this topic.  The Cigar of the Week is the Berger Argenti Entubar. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Saint Luis Rey Reserva Especial Serie G.  John Magrisso of Cambridge, Massachusetts won a black carbon fiber Palio cutter in this month's contest.  (Remember, each month starts a new contest and you must re-enter 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.  Cigar of the Week  - Berger Argenti Entubar. ENTUBAR® is a truly unique creation that pays tribute to the time-honored Cuban cigar making technique kno

Bob and Dale are joined this week by new father Craig Schneider and Colin Ganley, author of soon to be released Le Snob Guide to Cigars. Colin also discusses his Cigar Research company's apps available from iTunes: Cuban Cigar Creation, Mobile Stogie Pro and Mobile Stogie Ref. This week's show features an interview with Jose Blanco from La Aurora Cigars. Canadian listener Tim Banic checks in from his "Stogie Malone Cigar Bar." Listeners Mark Hall from TobaccoEvents.com and Bryan Newbury from Centro Cigars comment on recent shows. The Cigar of the Week is the Oliveros King Havanos Oscuro and the cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Hoya de Nicaragua Antano Dark Corojo Doble Fuerte. 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. Cigar of the Week - Oliveros King Havanos Oscuro. The Nicaraguan binder secures the all Ligero (Jalapa and Condega) filler for the application of this oscuro wrapper

This week's show features an interview with Sam Leccia of the recently launched Sam Leccia Cigar Company. On What's hot? What's not? What's next? Liz interviews Abe Dababneh, proprietor of South Florida's six (soon to be seven) Smoke Inn locations. The Cigar of the Week is the Partegas Cifuentes. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Siglo Limited Reserve VII. 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. Cigar of the Week - Partegas Cifuentes from General Cigar. The Partagas Cifuentes Blend is a limited-availability extension to the Partagas portfolio of cigars. It builds upon the legacy of Ramon Cifuentes by introducing a cigar specially blended for the Fall season by Ramon’s protégés, Daniel Nunez and Benji Menendez. Cifuentes Seasonal Blend cigars are medium-to-full bodied, rich in flavor, and use a special Honduran Medio-Tiempo wrapper, as well as Nicaraguan filler and binder toba

This week Bob and Dale discuss the latest in the cigar industry, including Michael Herklots moving from Davidoff to Nat Sherman, Sam Leccia returning to the premium cigar business, Guillermo León Herbert becoming the independent owner of La Aurora, and Vanderburgh Humidors being selected by the Indianapolis Speedway to build its limited edition cigar humidor. The Cigar of the Week is the Punch Upper Cut. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Licenciados Toro. 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. Do you have a Herf Line Review? Call and leave a cigar review on the herf line and receive a DogWatch Cigar Radio patch! You can reach the Herfline at 321-594-4373 - or cigar.radio on Skype. You can also send written reviews to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. Cigar of the Week - Punch Upper Cut by General Cigar. The history of General Cigar began in 1848 when Ferdinand Cullman immigrated to the

This week the Cigar of the Week is the San Lotano Maduro by A.J. Fernandez. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Perdomo Lot 23, suggested by listener Dan Crouch. In the "What's hot? What's not? What's next?" segment of the show, Liz interviews Luis Molina, General Manager of the Habana Port Cigar Merchants in Covington, LA. A special thanks to listener Dan Lawson for putting Liz in contact with Luis. Bob and Dale receive answers to their questions regarding available sizes of last week's Cigar of the Week, the Curivari. 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. Do you have a Herf Line Review? Call and leave a cigar review on the herf line and receive a DogWatch Cigar Radio patch! You can reach the Herfline at 321-594-4373 - or cigar.radio on Skype. You can also send written reviews to theshow@cigarmedia.tv. Cigar of the Week - San Lotano Maduro by A.J. Fernandez. San Lotano is th

This week Bob and Dale are joined by Craig Schneider, cigar passionado and regular contributor to CigarMedia.tv. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Illusione H1 (also known as the Holy Lance). The Illusione was suggested by Jeff Curtis and purchased from FullersPullers.us. The Cigar of the Week is the Curivari Reserva Limitada (Red/Gold Label). The Curivari Seleccion Privada and the Gloria de Leon - two other brands from this cigar maker - were also smoked by the guys during the week. Thanks goes out to Andreas Throuvalas of Curivari Cigars for his generosity in supplying sample cigars to smoke. We also want to thank Jim Luftman of Blue Havana II in Georgia for putting us in contact with Andreas and helping us to obtain the samples. Just announced - The new version of the DogWatch Cigar Radio app is iPAD compatible. The Cigar Rights of America membership special for DogWatch listeners is still running! Get two free cigars exclusively crafted for CRA members and

This week Bob and Dale discuss Operation Cigar Liberty which was launched by Cigar Rights of America to support federal legislation (H.R. 1639) that calls upon the U.S. Food & Drug Administration – Center for Tobacco Products not to regulate premium/traditional cigars, as they do other tobacco products. In commemoration of this proactive piece of federal legislation, as the first of its kind in history in the form of H.R. 1639, Cigar Rights of America is starting a national petition drive for 1,639 petitions from each Congressional District in America. With 435 members of Congress, that's 712,965 petitions. That's over 7,000 petitions to each member of the United States Senate. When elections are being decided by dozens, hundreds and a few thousand votes, they will listen. So with one simple click, where all you submit is a name, email address and zip code, you can have a place in history. At the request of a listener, Dale keeps a diary of his cigars over the last week. ER Doc calls in on the Herf

This week Dale calculates how many cigars he and Bob have smoked during the 7 years that the DogWatch Cigar Radio podcast has been broadcast. (At 3 cigars per day, they have each smoked about 6,500 stogies - or a little over 600 boxes of cigars together.) Also in this week's show, Bob interviews Brian Berman from Cigar Rights of America (CRA) to update listeners about CRA actvities including the FDA attempts at regulating tobacco. (Click here to learn more.) Brian also answers questions about the inclusion of pipe tobacco in the CRA fight. Liz and Bob discuss how Men Smoke on Mars and Women Smoke on Venus in a special edition of "What's hot? What's not? What's next?" DJ Shalifoe from Big Bay, Michigan is the winner of the Burl Palio Cutter in April's contest. The 2011 edition of the Nestor Miranda Cigar Day is on May 6. Get a free Art Deco from Miami Cigar & Company when you buy ANY cigar from your local authorized retailer. Go to http://vimeo.com/22924205 to learn more. Check out the live show!

This week Bryan Newbury, Manager of Centro Cigars in Lawrence, Kansas and regular contributor on "What's hot? What's not? What's next?" is a guest on the show. Bob interviews Christopher Fernandez and Julio Quinones, owners of Cigar Bros. The Encendido from Cigar Brothers is the Cigar of the Week. Carl Holtman provides this week's unbanded cigar, the La Flor Dominicana Cameroon Cabinet Lancero. David Dennis from Toledo suggests this week's show topic: branded cigar lounges. Don't forget to check out the show while it is being recorded at www.livestream.com/cigar_radio where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Cigar of the Week - Encendido from Cigar Bros. This is a 100% Costa Rican Puro. It is a medium- to full-bodied cigar and packed full of flavor! Cigar Brothers specially selected each and every leaf that has gone into this cigar to make sure that it is not only up to their standards but also up to the cigar connoisseur's standards. Dark Side - - No Dark Side this we

This week Craig Schneider, cigar passionado and regular contributor to CigarMedia.tv, joins Bob as guest host while Dale has the night off to fulfill other commitments. Bob interviews Antonio Lam from Reinado Cigars. The Reinado was the Cigar of the Week on episode #320, but due to technical difficulties the interview with Antonio had to be re-recorded. Carl Holtman provides this week's unbanded cigar, the Curivari Gloria de Leon Dominante. Look for the Curivari in a future Cigar of the Week segment. Liz interviews Dan Welsh from New Havana Cigars, the Online Humidor, on What's hot? What's not? What's next? Don't forget to check out the show while it is being recorded at www.livestream.com/cigar_radio where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Cigar of the Week - Warlock Robusto. Warlock, introduced by Altadis USA, is a full bodied cigar created by legendary cigar maker Omar Ortez in Nicaragua. Dominican and Nicaraguan aged long filler tobaccos, a spicy Nicaraguan binder and

This week, at the suggestion of Canadian listener Tim Banic, Bob and Dale focus on value cigars. Colin Ganley, Editor in Chief of Cigar Journal, is live in Bob's studio. Listener Cigar Don calls in on the herfline. Thanks to Bryan Newbury of Centro Cigars for helping us obtain this week's Cigar of the Week, the Arsenio. Liz interviews Jim Luftman from Blue Havana II in Georgia on What's hot? What's not? What's next? Don't forget to check out the show at www.livestream.com/cigar_radio where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Cigar of the Week - Arsenio. Blended by Arsenio Ramos and manufactured by Tabacalera Tropical, these cigars feature Nicaraguan Cuban seed tobacco from Condega, Jalapa and Esteli. Available in six sizes, tonight we are smoking the Arsenio, a 5.5 x 52 parejo. Also available in: Robusto, Toro, Torpedo, Lancero and Salamon. VALUE CIGARS - The Best of The Best, Selections from Bob, Dale and Colin Colin * Hoyo de Monterrey Edicion Especial * Ale

This week Bob and Dale discuss two topics sent in from listener Peter Daly in Australia (Dale's practice of tasting the cigar head before lighting and how an old DogWatch podcast saved Big Pete from losing his lunch). Carl Holtman provides this week's "What's my band?" cigar, the Curivari El Gran Rey Emperadores. With Easter coming, Bob discusses jelly bean pairings with cigars. An April Fool's joke is played on the audience. Don't forget to check out the show at www.livestream.com/cigar_radio where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Cigar of the Week - Reinado. A Nicaraguan puro that comes in three sizes: Robusto 5.5 x 50, Torpedo 6 1/8 x 52, Churchill 7 5/8 x 48. Reinado is a Nicaraguan puro from premium crops aged up to 5 years. The Reinado blend uses a proprietary fermentation process to enhance the flavors. Dark Side - - Ramon Allones Specially Selected ? What else have you been smokin' Dale? Camacho 2008 Liberty Graycliff Turbo Elogio LSV Churchill What else ha

This week Bob and Dale discuss topics sent in from listeners Don Hubbell from Virginia (What is the biggest contributor to the cigar aroma? Filler, binder or wrapper?), Frank Wagner from Wisconsin (Why not give CRA memberships to anti-smoking proponents?) and Frank Reiter from Missouri (DogWatch's recent appearance on The Cigar Authority). Angry Bill from California checks in on the herf line to review the La Flor Dominicana Air Bender. Darren Powell from Illinois is this month's lucky winner of a black carbon fiber Palio cutter. Thank you to Justin Bill from Illinois for this week's "What's my band?" cigar, the Partegas Havana Cifuentes Y Cia, and to Bryan Newbury from Centro Cigars in Kansas for providing Bob with some great "What else have you been smokin'?" cigars. Don't forget to check out the show at www.livestream.com/cigar_radio where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. Cigar of the Week - Cain Daytona. A kinder, gentler Cain for cigar smokers that still exhibits lo

This week Bob and Dale discuss listener email from Peter Daly in Australia and Marcian Knowles in Atlanta, Georgia. Liz interviews Micah Dennison from The Party Source in Bellevue, Kentucky on this week's segment of What's Hot? What's Not? What's Next? Check it out! Bob and Dale will be guests on The Cigar Authority show at 1pm EST on March 19th. The show runs from noon to 2pm on four radio stations in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Check out TheCigarAuthority.com for links to the live video feed and archived shows. Cigar of the Week - J. Fuego Origin Robusto. I have been smoking these daily for over two weeks now and I gotta say, this is one outstanding cigar. A 100% Corojo cigar from the famed Segovia factory in Esteli, Nicaragua. Wrapper is Brazillian Corojo; binder is Costa Rican Corojo; and the filler is a mix of Nicaraguan and Honduran Corojo (50/50). Available in six sizes: Original (5x44), Corona Gorda (5.5x46), Robusto (4 7/8x49), Belicoso (5.5x52), Toro (6x50), Lancero (7.5x38). Dark

This week Bob and Dale are joined by guest host Craig Schneider. They discuss listener email from Dan Lawson in New Orleans and Piet de Groot in the Netherlands. Bob interviews Kristin Jurczak about the MidWest Smoke Out in "Chicagoland" happening on April 7 in Hammond, IN. Liz interviews Bryan Newbury from Centro Cigars in Lawrence, Kansas on this week's segment of What's Hot? What's Not? What's Next? Cigar of the Week - San Lotano Habano. Ever hear of AJ Fernandez? You might not have but you soon will. Raised in Cuba working in the cigar industry, he used to study at the knee of famed tobacco grower / cigar maker Alejandro Robaina. The brand name originated with Fernandez’ grandfather in San Luis, Cuba. Released in 4 sizes, Churchill (7x52), Toro (6x52), Robusto (5x52) and Torpedo (6.5x52). Fillers - Dominican, Nicaraguan, Honduran Binder - Honduran Wrapper - Brazilian Habano Dark Side - - Montecristo Grand Edmundo LE 2010. This week Dale and Craig are reviewing the Montecristo Grand Edmundo L

This week Bob and Dale are joined by Colin Ganley, Chief Editor USA - European Cigar Journal. DogWatch welcomes Vanderburgh Humidors as a show sponsor. Angry Bill from the Law Dog Lounge calls in on the herf line to discuss the H. Upmann Winston Churchill and the Palio Cutter. Dan Clegg calls in a review of the Tatuaje Black. Justin Bill provides this week's Unbanded Cigar, the Tatuaje T110. Liz interviews Doug Fiore from Winston's Humidor on this week's segment of What's Hot? What's Not? What's Next? Cigar of the Week - La Gloria Cubana Artesanos de Obeliscos. Bob and Dale first reviewed this cigar about 9 months ago when it was first released. Now they review it again to see if their initial impressions have changed any. Dark Side - - Punch Punch. What else have you been smokin' Dale? Juan Lopez Asia Regional Release 2011 Joya de Nicaragua Antano Dark Corojo EP Carrillo Quesada Tributo BOTL Small Batch (made by PDR) What else have you been smokin' Bob? Jameson SouthBound Series Latitud

This week Bob interviews Abe Flores about Pinar del Rio cigars. Bob and Dale discuss cigar rituals, the New York City outdoor smoking ban, and the upcoming Studio Tobac Tour. They also field several chat room questions from listeners viewing the show at www.livestream.com/cigar_radio (where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST). Thanks goes out to Adam Zilinski from Canada for providing this week's unbanded, the Gran Habano SLS 3 Salomones. Cigar of the Week - Pinar del Rio 1878 Cubano Especial Capa Natural Darkside - HOYO DE MONTERREY LE HOYO DU DEPUTE Length: 110mm (4.3”) Ring Gauge: 38 One of the 7 Global Brands (as defined by Habanos SA), HdM is made to be a lighter character cigar. The Du Depute is a Trabucos vitola, more commonly referred to as a Short Panatela, and is a pre-1960’s release. No longer sold in the slide lid box of 50 or in the cardboard 5 pack, they only come in boxes of 25 today due to Habanos SA tightening their portfolio. What else have you been smokin'

This week listeners were heavily involved in the content of the show. Bob and Dale answered emails from listeners Bryan Newbury and Kris Allen; herf lines from Don Hubbell and Norbert; and a chat room question from Todd, who was viewing the show live at www.livestream.com/cigar_radio (where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST). This week's unbanded, the Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur 1066 Dark Knight III Maduro, was suggested by Jay LeDou. Cigar of the Week - La Sirena - The Prince 5x50 Distributed by Miami Cigar & Company (Nestor Miranda & Rene Castenada); brand champion is Arielle Ditkowich. Manufactured in Nicaragua at My Father Cigars. 5 sizes - 5.5 x 42; 5 x 50; 5.5 x 52 figurado; 6 x 60; and 7 x 50. MSRP between $8 and $10.50 before confiscatory taxes. All Nicaraguan blend of Criollo ‘98 & Corojo ‘96; a dual binder using Nica Habano & Corojo; topped off with a Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper. Darkside - Fonseca No 1 Also....an unbanded dark side ciga