Wayne ” Rocky Rulz” Young

Wayne “Rocky Rulz” Young, CRT

Wayne “Rocky Rulz” Young CRT

Wayne Young C.R.T.
Chesapeake Cigar Company

We’ve got an NFL Sunday Ticket subscription so we can keep up-to-date on every game. So come on over, watch the game on one of our huge HDTVs and enjoy your cigar. The weather at Chesapeake Cigar is ALWAYS perfect!

To make the new Alec Bradley Tempus Maduro, owner Alan Rubin is using a method he first saw in Little Havana about 12 years ago, using a bethune made from fruit pulp to aid the fermentation. “We’re fermenting the tobacco with natural product that was used 50 or 70 years ago.” This method of aging adds additional strength and flavor to the cigar, one of Rubin’s goals for the Tempest Maduro.

Alec Bradley produced a small run of these Tempus Maduros last year with a limited release Magistri perfecto. The Magistri maduros almost immediately sold out — proving that this blend was a winner with legs. Having smoked several of the limited release Magistris and the new sizes at the IPCPR Show, I can tell you from personal experience that this is going to be a very popular cigar very soon.

Chesapeake has all four sizes on order and will be adding them to the humidor as soon as they start to ship.

PADRON

We have a selection of sizes from the entire Padron line in stock now. Padron Series, Padron Serie 1964, Padron Serie 1926, 40th Anniversary, 80th Anniversary and Padron Family Reserve 45s (2009′s Cigar of The Year.)

ROCKY PATEL

Our stock of Edge, Vintage 1990, Vintage 1992 and Vintage 1999 has been updated. Additionally, we have brought-in Patel Bros and Rocky Patel 1961s. And, we have a great treat for you — the NEW Rocky Patel Vintage Series Sampler. This package offers one each of the Vintage line packed in tubes. And, when you purchase the sampler, you get a break on the price — you pay for three cigars and get ONE FREE!

HAMMER + SICKLE

You might not know the name, but you’ll recognize the box immediately! These great boutique cigars come packed in glass crystal boxes. Smooth and creamy super premium wrapper leaf perfectly aged 5 years. Dominican Republic binder and filler. Handmade in Santiago Dominican Republic.

The quest to create the NUb was founded in Sam’s personal smoking experience. He loves cigars, but found there was a sweet-spot in typical cigars where they were at their best. The NUb is his answer to creating a cigar that provides the same experience from beginning to end — Sam’s sweet spot.

While considered short in length, NUb are hardly a short smoke. Because of the larger ring gauge (girth), the typical NUb has as much tobacco as a Toro (a 6 inch by 50 ring) and a few top-out with enough tobacco to make a Churchill (7 inch by 59 ring.)

Cain, on the other hand, is Sam’s answer to producing as close to an all ligero cigar as possible. The ligero leaf isn’t different tobacco — it’s the tobacco found at the top of each tobacco plant. Ligero leaves at the smallest and fullest bodied on the plant. Growing closest to the sun, the sugars and oils concentrate in these leaves more than any other, producing a leaf that is packed with body and flavor. And, because of their unique size and strength, the produce the hardest the burn leaves that cigars are made with. For the most part, all cigars have varying amounts of ligero to give them body (a select few have no ligero at all.)

According to Sam, “Cain was part of an ongoing effort by everyone in the industry to make an all-ligero cigar. We found it couldn’t be completely all-ligero, so we [made it]  ’25% Esteli Ligero, 27% Condega Ligero and 30% Jalapa Ligero’ and left the rest to your imagination.” What’s left to your imagination is what allows the cigar to burn well despite it’s 80+ percent ligero composition.

Many may shy away from the fullest bodied offerings in the Cain line because they fear they might be too much for them. These cigars certainly pack a punch of power, but body does not always equate to harshness. Smokers continue to flock to them in droves because they find them smooth and tasty.

Then, to confuse things a little more, Sam’s two lines — NUb and Cain — intersect in the Cain NUb — NUb versions of the ligero packed Cains.

Here is a breakdown of the current cigar line-up from Sammy The NUb:

NUb – available in four different blends:

*Our sources with Oliva tell us that after this year’s Cain F Tour is over, the Cain F NUb will make its way to boxes and to our shelves.

It’s easy to decipher the name of the NUb or Cain to determine size and shape. For instance, a 460 is a 4 inch long by 60 ring cigar, a 550 is a 5 inch long by 50 ring cigar, a 466BPT is a 4 inch long by 66 ring that is a box-pressed torpedo (hence the BPT.)

Chesapeake Cigar is on the 2010 Cain F Tour. Sam will be here rolling event only Cain F NUbs on Friday, November 5th. Watch for more details in our weekly newsletters as the date gets closer.

No company has dominated Cigar Aficionado’s ratings in the way Padrón Cigars has. Named Cigar Aficionado’s Cigar of the Year for 2009, an honor that has only existed for six years. The No. 45 is stronger than typical Padróns and is an intense smoke jammed with rich, hearty, coffee notes and a heady amount of spices. The Padróns are tobacco hoarders, keeping stocks of tobacco for years, and this cigar is made with some of their oldest leaves. Company president Jorge Padrón says the leaves inside are as old as 10 years.

The first of the Padrón’s Family Reserves were torpedos made from very old tobaccos, served only for special occasion dinners and never sold at retail. While the 45 shares the original’s old tobacco, it’s a slightly different blend and an entirely different shape, being a severely pressed parejo. While the majority of Padrón Family Reserve No. 45s are made with maduro wrappers, some are wrapped in natural leaves. The cigars come in tidy boxes of 10, the cover of which bears the signature of the Padrón clan. “This is something you carry in your blood,” says José Orlando Padrón about making cigars. “I was born in the middle of all that and that is why I love it so much.”