Cigar Aficionado

Cigar Aficionado is a magazine for the man who enjoys life’s great pleasures: fine dining and entertaining, the finest wines and spirits, world travel and the arts. At the heart of every issue is the cigar: what to smoke, where to smoke, and how to enjoy a great smoke.

highlights

The Lunacy of Anti-Smoking Regulations

out of the humidor

Cigar Aficionado

good life guide • Living well demands that we indulge in things that are of superior quality and excellent origin. This guide aspires to find and recommend the best of everything to aficionados of the good life.

Boveda Humidity Packs

Serious Rosés

37th America’s Cup Watches

Vegas Pool Season

The Classic Club Sandwich

Working With Wedges

The Professional • Josh Brolin was born into a show business family, but his road to screen stardom has taken him down many paths

NEW GOLF LEAGUE • A new kind of golf tournament is coming to prime time. Big-name pros and big-money investors are going in on TGL Golf

A Major Celebration • When Xander Schauffele won the PGA Championship in May, he celebrated in smoky style

THE BIGGEST BET • POWERBALL AND OTHER LOTTERIES OFFER THE BIGGEST PAYOUTS IN GAMBLING, AND SOME PROFESSIONALS HAVE FOUND WAYS TO GAME THE SYSTEM

WINNING THE BIG ONE • HOW MULTIMILLION DOLLAR JACKPOTS CHANGED THE LIVES OF THREE WINNERS

Why We Taste Blind

The Bonding Experience • More bottled-in-bond whiskeys are entering the market, and they deliver some of the finest drinking experiences around

THE CIGAR PAIRING

LEADER OF THE LOST BOYS • Mike Rypka loves smoking cigars with his friends so much, he bought his neighbor’s house and transformed it into a smoking lounge

Subscriptions Make Great Gifts!

THE TOBACCO TITAN • Fifth-generation tobacco man Nestor Andrés Plasencia follows in his father’s footsteps as the largest grower of cigar tobacco in Central America

Facundo L. Bacardi CHAIRMAN, BACARDI LIMITED • Montecristo No. 2 (pre-Castro)

Chuck Wagner WINEMAKER • Padrón Serie 1926 No. 35

Ray Parker Jr. MUSICIAN • Illusione Epernay

Tie Domi HOCKEY TOUGH GUY • Davidoff Grand Cru

Manny Diaz FOOTBALL COACH • Padrón Serie 1926 No. 40

churchills

coronas

double coronas

figurados

robustos

toros/corona gordas

buying guide • TOP SCORES, VALUES AND STRENGTH | BLIND TASTE TEST NO. 181

connoisseur’s corner • A TASTING OF VINTAGE CIGARS

moments to remember

last leaf