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Tonight we're doing something special. The Espinosa Laranja Hybrid isn't out in the wild yet, and we're taking you inside the blend and the whole experience before it gets there. This is the fourth chapter of the Laranja story, a line that's been rocking the orange band for twelve years, and the Hybrid takes it somewhere new. An Ecuadorian Habano Oscuro wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder with Nicaraguan and Brazilian tobaccos in the filler, rolled at La Zona. The Brazilian DNA that made Laranja what it is stays in the blend, but the profile evolves. Citrus zest, earth, cocoa...

Tonight we've got a special one. Nicholas Perdomo III joins us LIVE to talk about what it means to be the fourth generation of a cigar family and what it's like to blend side by side with your own father. Nicholas is the man behind the Perdomo Legacy line, he just picked up Up-and-Coming Person of the Year honors, and now he and his dad have taken the collaboration to a whole new level with the Legacy Father & Son project.

Here's what makes this story so good. This isn't a kid who got handed a title. Nicholas...

Grab your go bag and check your humidor seals because the signs are everywhere. Nicaragua's president just announced there will be no more elections. Ever. That's the country that grows more premium cigar tobacco than anywhere else on the planet, and the drumbeat for sanctions in Washington has been getting louder for years. Meanwhile tariffs on Nicaraguan goods just climbed again. And if the geopolitics weren't enough, forecasters are now calling for a super El Nino that could rank among the strongest ever recorded, with severe dryness projected across Central America right where the tobacco grows. Political chaos, trade...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 438, Michael Herklots of Ferio Tego Cigars is joining us in the studio—and there may not be anybody in this industry who thinks more deliberately about the experience of a cigar.

Michael is not new to this world. His career stretches back more than two decades through Davidoff, Nat Sherman, and now Ferio Tego. But what makes him especially interesting to me is the way he approaches the craft. Every detail appears to have a purpose. The tobacco, the proportions, the presentation, the language surrounding the blend, and even the moment in wh...

I can prove the cigars in your humidor are fake. Actually, I can't. But here's the thing about the internet in 2026: I don't have to. I just have to say it with confidence and let the doubt do the rest. Welcome to the greatest era of skepticism in human history, where proof is optional and the accusation is the whole argument.

Here's what got me on this. I spent last week on a fossil digging expedition. Dug them out of the ground myself, dirt under my fingernails, photographed them same day. Posted the pictures and the internet...

If you were here for Episode 405, you already know the story. Steve Saka and I cooked up something completely unhinged together. Part genius, part madness, all heart. The Dunbarton LecheBurra Cigars Daily Edition was one of the most talked about projects we’ve ever been a part of, and tonight the entire crew is revisiting it live. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, Tim the Teefs, everybody’s got one, and we’re lighting them up together.

For anyone who missed the original episode, we’re going to walk through how this collaboration came together with Steve Sa...

Tonight the whole crew is putting their palates on the line. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, and Tim the Teefs are each bringing a blind taste test challenge for the other two to compete in. That means nobody knows what they’re smoking, everybody thinks they’re an expert, and at least one of us is about to be humbled on camera. Billy, The Cock of the Walk is out of town on business this week so he gets a pass. The rest of us are not so lucky.

We’re going to talk about how bl...

Every cigar enthusiast has a list. Not the cigars you grab on a Tuesday because they're on the shelf and the price is right. The other list. The cigars you hunt for. The ones that are allocated, or limited, or priced at a level where buying one is a real decision. The ones where you call ahead to see if the shop has them in stock, or you drive across town because your usual spot never carries them, or you finally pull the trigger online after staring at the checkout screen for ten minutes. Tonight we're talking about those...

The Johnny Tobacconaut Maduro just landed on shelves and tonight we're cracking it open live with the whole crew. If you've been following the Room101 lineup, you already know what the original Tobacconaut brought to the table. Now Matt Booth and AJ Fernandez have taken that blend, wrapped it in a dark Nicaraguan maduro leaf, and pushed it into full-bodied territory. Earth, espresso, dark cocoa, and a profile that builds as you go. We've been looking forward to this one and tonight we're finding out if it lives up to the hype.

This is also going to...

There's a moment in every cigar enthusiast's life where you look at your collection and think "this might be a problem." Maybe it was the second humidor. Maybe it was when you started hiding boxes from your spouse. Maybe it was when you realized you have cigars from 2019 that you forgot existed. Wherever that moment was for you, tonight we're talking about it.

We built The Cigar Collecting Spectrum and we're putting everybody on it. From the guy who doesn't even own a humidor yet all the way to the person who has lost complete control of...

Father's Day is America's 13th favorite holiday. Thirteenth. Behind Halloween. Behind Labor Day. Behind New Year's Eve AND New Year's Day, which honestly shouldn't even count as two separate holidays. It has a 67% approval rating, which means a third of the country actively does not approve of Father's Day. And this year it's not even the biggest thing happening in June. The country is turning 250, there's a UFC cage match on the White House lawn, and somewhere in the middle of all that, dad is expected to act surprised when he opens a gift he picked out, paid for...

Every cigar person has that shelf. The one in the back of the humidor that you don’t touch. The aged ones. The rare ones. The ones you bought for a special occasion that never came. The ones you keep rotating to the back because the moment never feels big enough. Tonight we’re done waiting. The whole Cigars Daily LIVE crew is pulling their most guarded, most precious, most untouchable cigars out of hiding and we’re burning them down together.

Here’s the thing. There is no special occasion tonight. We made one up. Because the trut...

Two cigars. Same brand. Same blender. Completely different weight classes. Tonight we’re locking them both in the cage and only one is walking out with the win.

One of these cigars was built for the backyard. Grab a box, throw it in the cooler, show up to the cookout and be everybody’s favorite person. The other one was built for a leather chair, a pour of something barrel-aged, and a night where you’re not in any hurry. One costs about half the price of the other. Both are brand new limited editions that just hit sh...

July 4th, 2026 is America's 250th birthday. Two and a half centuries since the Declaration of Independence was signed and the whole experiment got started. The country is throwing a party and the cigar industry showed up with something I honestly did not expect. An actual American puro. Every single leaf grown right here in the United States. No Nicaraguan filler. No Dominican binder. No Ecuadorian wrapper. Just American dirt, American seed, American tobacco, and a barber pole wrapper that looks exactly like what you'd expect a cigar called "America" to look like.

Tonight we're breaking down the...

Last year My Father dropped the Blue and it changed the conversation. A Honduran puro from the Garcia family, produced at their brand new factory, and it flew off shelves faster than anyone expected. Some people called it a home run. Some thought it was just okay. But nobody ignored it. Now the second cigar out of that same Honduras factory has arrived and it's called La Lealtad, which means "The Loyalty." Tonight we're putting it to the test.

La Lealtad is a different animal than the Blue. Where the Blue was a full Honduran puro wrapped...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE, I've got fresh space in the humidor and I'm looking to fill it with cigar makers that are actually worth going all in on. Not brands with one good cigar. Brands that show real consistency, identity, momentum, and staying power. I've already placed some big bets on names like Crowned Heads, Tatuaje, Atabey, Byron, Alfonso, Meerapfel, Ozgener, El Mago, and United. Tonight I'll tell you exactly why each one earned a spot on my shelves.

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PCA 2026 is almost here and the announcements are coming in faster than we can keep up with. Dunbarton just dropped 18,000 new releases. Espinosa is putting out eight-ish. My Father has La Lealtad. Oliva built a humidor shaped like a soccer ball. Plasencia rebranded the whole company. And we haven’t even gotten to the show floor yet. Tonight the whole crew is pulling up to talk about the releases we’re actually getting behind this year.

This isn’t a press release read. This is the stuff we’re genuinely excited to get our hands on. Every member o...

PCA 2026 is right around the corner and the leaks are already out of control. Plasencia is changing their entire logo and brand identity for the first time in forever. My Father just announced a brand new release called La Lealtad coming out of their Honduras factory. And Oliva just dropped maybe the most bizarre release I’ve seen in a long time. A Serie V Melanio humidor shaped like a literal soccer ball. I’m not making that up. Tonight we’re getting into all of it.

This is going to be one of those weeks where the in...

If you've watched this show for any amount of time, you know Billy. The man, the myth, the chicken wrangler. Cigars Daily's fictional CEO who rules the roost with an iron beak and has earned a cult following among the Cigars Daily Nation. Tonight we're sitting down with Jonas Santana of Blackbird Cigar Co. to introduce Billy's very own blend. It's called Cock of the Walk, and it's a four-country 6x52 Toro that struts exactly like its namesake.

Jonas is the man behind the Cactus Wren Daily Edition, which the Nation already knows and loves. This time...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE we've got Nick Melillo of Foundation Cigars in the house. Nick is one of the most respected names in the business and Foundation is celebrating 10 years, so we're getting into the whole story. How the brand started, what it took to build it, and what he's learned along the way about making something that lasts in this industry.

We'll talk about the Foundation 10th Anniversary blend, the Knight Commander, and some of the cigars that put Foundation on the map. But more than that, we're getting into the why behind all of...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 421, we’re leaning into the St. Patrick’s Day spirit and talking about the cigars that make us green with envy. These are the projects that make other cigar makers stop and say, “Man… I wish we had done that.” From legendary limited releases like Alec Bradley’s Filthy Hooligan, to brand-new flavor bombs like Romeo y Julieta’s Reserva Real Nicaragua Profundo crafted by AJ Fernandez, we’re looking at the cigars that stand out for their creativity, flavor, and sheer boldness. Along the way we’ll break down what makes these projects so special, why th...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 420, we’re celebrating milestones… and then immediately getting shown up by Steve Saka. Over the last few weeks there have been a lot of big moments worth raising a cigar for — 15 years of marriage, 10 years working in the cigar industry, the Cigars Daily YouTube channel crossing 350,000 subscribers, and even my Dodge Challenger rolling over a very distinguished mileage number. 

But while we’re celebrating our own wins, the cigar world is celebrating something even bigger: 10 years of Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust. Steve Saka has become one of the most respected and outspoken voices in premiu...

Ten years ago I walked into this industry looking for part-time work while I was serving as a pastor. I had no idea that decision would change my entire life. What started as a side gig turned into a calling. Cigar maker, content creator, lounge manager, retail owner. Eventually all of that led to co-founding Cigars Daily with my father-in-law Jim Campbell. A decade later we've built one of the most recognized independent voices in premium cigars, and all of it started because I just wanted to be around the leaf.

Tonight I'm telling you that whole...

He started as the gopher guy at a factory in Estelí, Nicaragua. Nearly 20 years later, he's one of the most recognized faces in the entire industry. Tonight Drew Estate's Global Brand Ambassador Pedro Gomez joins us LIVE to tell his story — how a kid from humble beginnings in Nicaragua ended up becoming the voice of one of the biggest brands in the business.

My name is Tim and I'm the host of this show — but YOU are the co-host. Your comments and questions drive the episode. Settle in, grab a drink, and let's get into it.

We...

Cuba just cancelled its biggest annual festival for the first time since 1999. The island is in crisis — blackouts, fuel rationing, and airlines pulling out entirely. What does this mean for the future of Cuban craftsmanship, and what does it signal for the global industry?

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 416, we've got Oliva Nick in the studio, which means it's one of those nights where everyone in the chat gets to interrogate a real cigar industry insider while we sit here and pretend we're mature adults.
We'll be talking Oliva updates, what's actually happening with new releases this year, and the kind of behind-the-scenes stuff cigar people know that normal humans never see. How long things really take. Why some cigars blow up. Why others vanish. What's real versus what's just internet smoke.
We're also hitting DailyCon 2026—real details on what we're bu...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 415, we’re talking about what I’m calling The 2026 Cigar Squeeze—because it feels like cigar smokers are getting pinched from every direction right now. Prices are moving, checkout totals are getting weird, and depending on where you live, shipping and taxes are starting to feel like a mini boss fight you didn’t sign up for.

And no—this isn’t some “go buy everything right now” episode. This is cigar news + real talk. I want to break down what’s actually changing, why it’s happening, and what it means for regular guys who...

Cigar lounges used to be the heartbeat of cigar culture—where you learned, met people, and actually hung out. But lately it feels like the lounge is getting squeezed from every direction. Some places are dealing with regulatory pressure, others are fighting the simple reality that people spend more time online than ever… and even when you walk into a lounge, half the room is already on their phones.

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE, we’re talking about what’s changing—and why. Are lounges dying, evolving, or just being forced to adapt? What do cigar bars do better...

It’s that time of year again — the lists are out, the debates are raging, and everyone wants to know the same thing: what’s really the No. 1 cigar of the year?

In this episode of Cigars Daily LIVE, we’re digging into the Cigar of the Year results from the major publications. We’ll walk through the rankings, talk about what the critics got right, where they missed the mark, and why some cigars always seem to dominate these lists. From Cigar Aficionado to Cigar Dojo to the ever-coveted Halfwheel Consensus, nothing is off the table.

But t...

Some cigars are good. Some are memorable. And then there are cigars that refuse to quit.

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE, we’re telling the full story behind Unkillable — a cigar born out of resilience, grit, and the kind of determination that defines this industry. This isn’t just about a blend; it’s about what it represents and why that idea matters in a world that’s constantly trying to wear people down.

We’ll talk about where the concept came from, what went into creating it, and why Unkillable became the right name at the right...

It’s the first Cigars Daily LIVE of 2026, and we’re kicking the year off exactly how we mean to continue it: with hot takes, questionable choices, and a whole lot of fun.

Tonight we’re talking Top Lists as they start rolling out across the cigar world—what they get right, what they miss, and why you shouldn’t let a list tell you what to enjoy. We’re also unveiling something brand new and completely ridiculous: Billy’s Chubby Chicks—short, fat, unapologetic cigars that are here to make a statement (and probably a mess).

And of...

It’s the last LIVE of the year, and tonight we’re doing something big.

We’re taking a deep look back at 2025 — the festivals, the trends, the standout cigars, the industry moments you loved (and some you didn’t see coming) — and then turning our attention forward to 2026 with predictions, premonitions, and bold calls for what’s next.

We’ll recap the year’s hottest events, review what made headlines in every corner of the hobby, and highlight the cigars that defined 2025 — including the ones that will shape conversations next year. Then we’ll dive into 2026: new re...

The holidays are here — and so is the chaos. From judgmental in-laws to freezing back patios to your aunt who’s still trying to tell you cigars are worse than cigarettes… it can be a lot.

In this episode of Cigars Daily LIVE, we’re talking about how cigars can actually make the holidays better. Whether it’s escaping the madness for a moment of peace or sparking up meaningful conversations in the garage-turned-smoking-lounge, cigars bring people together.

The Magic 8 Ball has been shaken, and the future is hazy… but that’s never stopped us before. In this episode of Cigars Daily LIVE, we’re peering into 2026 to make our boldest cigar predictions yet. From industry trends and upcoming projects to award-season guesses and long-shot prophecies, this is our chance to call our shots and see what the next year might hold for cigar lovers.

We’ll talk about where the industry feels like it’s headed, which brands could have breakout years, what kinds of cigars might dominate conversations, and what surprises could be lurking ju...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE, I’m joined by Michael Knowles — yes, that Michael Knowles — who’s stepping into the lounge to talk cigars, history, craftsmanship, and his own new project: Mayflower Cigars.

This isn’t a political show and it isn’t a debate. It’s two guys hanging out, talking cigars, joking around, and digging into the story behind a blend inspired by one of the most iconic journeys in American history. We’ll cover everything from how the cigar was created, to what Michael wanted it to represent, to the wild ride of bringing a brand into the...

This last week has been absolute madness in the cigar world — and tonight we’re unpacking all of it. From Thanksgiving rolling straight into Cigartopia, to the launch of LecheBurra, Steve Saka’s visit to the HQ, and the non-stop chaos of Black Friday weekend… it’s been one of the wildest stretches I’ve ever experienced at Cigars Daily.

And as if that wasn’t enough, we’re heading into December with two of the most anticipated arrivals of the year: Foundation’s Tabernacle Knight Commander and the Foundation 10th Anniversary Round 2. So yeah… it’s been a lot.

In t...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE, we’re unleashing the wildest episode of the entire year. Steve Saka from Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust is in the studio, and we’re diving deep into the story behind LecheBurra — the completely unhinged collaboration he and I cooked up together (mostly he, but we’ll explain more during the show).

This is the kind of project you can only make with Saka: part genius, part madness, and all heart. In this episode, we’re breaking down how the blend came together, why this was unlike any cigar project I’ve ever worked on, and what...

Tonight, we’re putting the power in your hands. This is Cigars Daily LIVE: Community Choice 2025 — where we find out which cigars you think are true 10/10s.

The chat will build the leaderboard as we go, so drop your top smokes in the comments and we’ll crown a winner by the end of the night. Are we talking Padron 1926? Tabernacle? Or something totally off the radar?

We’ll run some quick-fire shoutouts, a blind taste duel, and a round of Hot Take or Not to see which blends actually live up to the hype. It’s all...

This week on Cigars Daily LIVE, we’re celebrating the heroes who’ve made our freedoms possible — the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces. With Veterans Day upon us, tonight’s show is all about honoring their courage, sharing stories, and enjoying the sense of brotherhood that cigars bring to every lounge across America.

We’re also firing up something special: the Espinosa La Bomba Warhead Limited Edition, one of the boldest cigars out there. We’ll talk about what makes this project so unique, how it’s become a fan favorite, and why it feels right...

You all know who's the law around these parts! Normally, it's your Cigars Daily LIVE team but tonight, we're breaking the law… but not just any law. We have Law Ream in the studio. He's been traveling the country in the name of Davidoff's Zino Nicaragua. We're all going to work together to see if we can break Law in, Cigars Daily style.