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 New Cigar Boom

out of the humidor

Cigar Aficionado

good life guide

Pocket-Sized Cigar Scissors

The Wauwinet, Nantucket

2021 Mustang Mach-E

Ginning It Up

Blending a Better Burger

Biking in the Sand

Shades of the Beach

Riding America’s Roller Coasters

the total package • Cam Newton, a man who has run for more touchdowns than any other quarterback in NFLhistory, is hoping to fill Tom Brady’s big shoes in New England

SPORTS BETTING ON THE GO • GAMBLING SERVICES THAT TURN YOUR MOBILE DEVICES INTO VIRTUAL CASINOS OFFER SPLITSECOND SPORTS BETS AND ARE DRIVING THE $20 BILLION SECTOR TO NEW LEVELS

TAPPING PETE ROSE’S BRAIN

Tomorrow’s Tigers? • There’s a host of emerging young talent on the PGA Tour. Here are the 10 PLAYERS with the best chance of becoming one of golf’s next superstars

The Story Dealer • Bill Rau, the purveyor of New Orleans’greatest repository of rarities and fine art, is forever on the lookout for items with a past

Whiskey PATRIOTISM • Cocktails made with American Bourbon and rye strike a spirited blow for liberty

The Manhattan Project

The Soulful Sazerac

The Southern Standard: The Mint Julep

Boulevardier—The Flavor Riot You May Not Know

cigars

churchills

figurados

grandes

petit coronas

robustos

toros/corona gordas

buying guide • TOP SCORES, VALUES AND STRENGTH | BLIND TASTE TEST NO. 163

connoisseur’s corner • A TASTING OF VINTAGE CIGARS

The New Cigar Boom • Handmade cigars are selling at levels not seen in 20 years

Armand Assante • ACTOR • Plasencia Alma Fuerte Sixto II • Cigar aficionados describe their smoke of choice

Eric Ripert • CHEF Cohiba Behike BHK 56

Bill Terlato • WINE EXECUTIVE • Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2

Shaun Deeb • POKER PRO Romeo y Julieta Belicoso

Fred “The Hammer” Williamson • ATHLETE/ACTOR • Arturo Fuente Seleccion Privada No. 1

Pat LaFrieda • MEAT MASTER • Aging Room Quattro Connecticut Vibrato

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.

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