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 Untold Story of CIGAR AFICIONADO

out of the humidor

Cigar Aficionado

good life guide

Harris Tweed Cigar Cases

Richard Mille RM UP-01 Ferrari

Espresso Martini

Leather Weekend Bag

Nantucket Bay Scallops

Home Golf Simulators

Backgammon

30th Anniversary Issue

The Magazine That Almost Didn’t Happen • The untold story of Marvin R. Shanken’s original cigar plan, and how it would have kept him from founding CIGAR AFICIONADO 30 years ago

Remembering the Interviews

The Year Was 1992

The Cigar Aficionado Super Fans

The Very Best • Thirty cigars, all of them classics, the very best from 30 years of reviews

Cigar Prices, Then And Now • Looking back at 30 years of cigar pricing, and the days of quality $2 cigars

10 Covers to Celebrate • We’ve had an amazing array of covers during our 30-year history. Here are 10 of our favorites.

Hall of Fame Class of 2022 • We welcome five new inductees to the Cigar Aficionado Hall of Fame, honoring the people who have truly made their mark on the world of fine cigars

HIGH HOPES FOR JAI ALAI • The “fastest sport in the world” seeks to reinvent itself in Miami, with a new, even-faster format and players poached from a range of other sports

Golf’s Biggest Fight • Greg Norman’s LIV Golf has entered into full-blown war with the PGA Tour

The Sherry Factor • So many whiskies from Scotland owe their fascinating flavor to Sherry casks from southern Spain

A Cavalcade of Casks • These malt selections represent a panorama of Sherry treatments. Some are finished in casks from Spain. Others meld ex-Bourbon-aged whisky with malts aged in Sherried casks. Some are purely Sherry influenced. All are fascinating.

HUNTER’S PREY • LIKE HIS MARINE SNIPER HERO, THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND PROLIFIC NOVELIST STEPHEN HUNTER PURSUES HIS LITERARY QUARRY WITH PERSISTENCE AND SPOT-ON ACCURACY

Cigars and the Turning of the Civil War • A handful of found cigars helped the Union at Antietam, America’s bloodiest battle

My Favorite Cigar • Cigar aficionados describe their smoke of choice

churchills

figurados

grandes

miscellaneous

robustos

toros/corona gordas

buying guide • TOP SCORES, VALUES AND STRENGTH | BLIND TASTE TEST NO. 171

connoisseur’s corner • A TASTING OF VINTAGE CIGARS

moments to remember • Please send all submissions to: CIGAR AFICIONADO/Moments to Remember, Worldwide Plaza, 825 Eighth Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10019. Or email them to: momentstoremember@mshanken.com. To order additional copies of CIGAR AFICIONADO, call 1-800-344-0763.

last leaf • OPEN-DOOR POLICY A look at stalk-cut broadleaf hanging in a tobacco barn in the Connecticut River Valley in the 1940s, not quite ready to be rolled into maduro cigars.