Stogie Guys Friday Sampler XLVIII

In our ongoing effort to make StogieGuys.com as entertaining and reader-friendly as possible, each Friday we’ll post a selection of quick cigar news and stogie-related snippets. We call ‘em Friday Samplers. Enjoy.

1) Victoria McKee of General Cigar recently let us know about new additions to some of General Cigar’s most popular brands. The Macanudo Gold, Macanudo Maduro, Partagas Black Label, Partagas Spanish Rosado and Cohiba Black lines are all adding new sizes. For the details see this article from Cigar Aficionado.

2) Ohio’s smoking ban may have hurt business in Ohio’s bars, but the outlook is rosier just across the border. Bars in Michigan and Pennsylvania are reporting booms as disenfranchised Ohio smokers cross the border for a place to have a smoke.

3) Around the Blogs: Leafy Times tries the Avalon Juke Blue. Cigar Beat reviews an Opus X. The Smoking Lounge lounges with a Rocky Patel Vintage 1990. Keepers of the Flame smokes a Macanudo Cafe Lords. Stogie Fresh has a Camacho Scorpion. Cigar Jack gives the Romeo y Julieta Short Churchill a try. Stogie Review fires up a La flor Dominicana Factory Press.

4) Deal of the Week: This week’s deal is a little different because it doesn’t just score you some good smokes… it also is charitable. Joining the Cigar Connoisseur Club by J.C. Newman Cigars gets you four great Cuesta-Rey Centro Fino Sungrown cigars and a sharp golf shirt. And in case that isn’t enough, a portion of your membership goes to the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation to build schools and health clinics in the Dominican Republic. (Of course, if you still haven’t got a gift for dad we suggest you check out last Friday’s Deal of the Week.)

–The Stogie Guys