Hi, and welcome to another episode of Mondays with Mardo, I'm Gerard, and this week we're going to talk about the five things not to do while smoking your cigar. We're going to get right into it. I got my pen. I'm getting really serious.Number one, "Be considerate of people around you, down-wind." What the heck does this mean? So, if you are in a city that does not allow indoor smoking, you want go outside, you want to find a bench. You want to go to a park, a picnic table, wherever you wa …

Hi, and welcome to another episode of Mondays with Mardo. I'm your host Gerard, and this week, we're going to talk about universal blends in cigars.All right, so a universal blend cigar is pretty basic. Let's say you have a cigar that has a San Andreas Maduro rapper, the binders are corojo and the fillers consist of Nicaraguan ligeros and some visos. Now you can take that same exact cigar and all you have to do is switch out the rapper to an Ecuadorian Connecticut. Now, essentially you are …

Hi, and welcome to another episode of Mondays with Mardo’s. I'm your host, Gerard. And, this week, we're going to talk about the increased prices of Cuban cigars and how that's going to impact your purchase.All right. So, as if you guys may know, or may not know, that Cuban cigar prices throughout the world are tripling. Yes, that's right. A box of Cohiba's what would it cost you about $500, nowadays, getting ready to be about $1,300 for that box. So, what's going to happen is that non Cuba …

Hi, and welcome to another episode of Monday's with Mardo's. All right, so what is a boutique cigar and what does it consist of? So, first off, we're going to talk about what is my definition of a boutique cigar and what is the industry's boutique definition.The industry's boutique definition is any manufacturer that has a production less than a million sticks is considered a boutique cigar. However, to me, it's a little bit more personal than that and I have a little bit of notes I'm goin …

And Monique is smiling behind a camera, I can tell, because she's happy that I did this all in one take.Hi and welcome to another episode of Mondays with Mardos. I'm Gerard, and this week we are going to talk about what do master blenders smoke when blending cigars? What is the process from start to finish? Anyways, before I get going, I need to click on that subscribe button, click on the bell to be notified every single week of new episodes on Mondays with Mardos.All right, you guys. So I …