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Tonight we've got a special one. Nicholas Perdomo III joins us LIVE to talk about what it means to be the fourth generation of a cigar family and what it's like to blend side by side with your own father. Nicholas is the man behind the Perdomo Legacy line, he just picked up Up-and-Coming Person of the Year honors, and now he and his dad have taken the collaboration to a whole new level with the Legacy Father & Son project.

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Grab your go bag and check your humidor seals because the signs are everywhere. Nicaragua's president just announced there will be no more elections. Ever. That's the country that grows more premium cigar tobacco than anywhere else on the planet, and the drumbeat for sanctions in Washington has been getting louder for years. Meanwhile tariffs on Nicaraguan goods just climbed again. And if the geopolitics weren't enough, forecasters...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE 438, Michael Herklots of Ferio Tego Cigars is joining us in the studio—and there may not be anybody in this industry who thinks more deliberately about the experience of a cigar.

Michael is not new to this world. His career stretches back more than two decades through Davidoff, Nat Sherman, and now Ferio Tego. But what makes him especially interesting to me is the way he approaches the craft. Every...

I can prove the cigars in your humidor are fake. Actually, I can't. But here's the thing about the internet in 2026: I don't have to. I just have to say it with confidence and let the doubt do the rest. Welcome to the greatest era of skepticism in human history, where proof is optional and the accusation is the whole argument.

Here's what got me on this. I spent last week on a fossil digging expedition. Dug them out of the ground my...

If you were here for Episode 405, you already know the story. Steve Saka and I cooked up something completely unhinged together. Part genius, part madness, all heart. The Dunbarton LecheBurra Cigars Daily Edition was one of the most talked about projects we’ve ever been a part of, and tonight the entire crew is revisiting it live. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, Tim the Teefs, everybody’s got one, and we’re ...

Tonight the whole crew is putting their palates on the line. El Rey Del Terrence, Amber P Buckets, and Tim the Teefs are each bringing a blind taste test challenge for the other two to compete in. That means nobody knows what they’re smoking, everybody thinks they’re an expert, and at least one of us is about to be humbled on camera. Billy, The Cock of the Walk is out of town on business this week so he gets a pass. The...

Every cigar enthusiast has a list. Not the cigars you grab on a Tuesday because they're on the shelf and the price is right. The other list. The cigars you hunt for. The ones that are allocated, or limited, or priced at a level where buying one is a real decision. The ones where you call ahead to see if the shop has them in stock, or you drive across town because your usual spot never carries them, or you finally pull the trigger o...

The Johnny Tobacconaut Maduro just landed on shelves and tonight we're cracking it open live with the whole crew. If you've been following the Room101 lineup, you already know what the original Tobacconaut brought to the table. Now Matt Booth and AJ Fernandez have taken that blend, wrapped it in a dark Nicaraguan maduro leaf, and pushed it into full-bodied territory. Earth, espresso, dark cocoa, and a profile that builds as you go....

There's a moment in every cigar enthusiast's life where you look at your collection and think "this might be a problem." Maybe it was the second humidor. Maybe it was when you started hiding boxes from your spouse. Maybe it was when you realized you have cigars from 2019 that you forgot existed. Wherever that moment was for you, tonight we're talking about it.

We built The Cigar Collecting Spectrum and we're putting everybody on it....

Father's Day is America's 13th favorite holiday. Thirteenth. Behind Halloween. Behind Labor Day. Behind New Year's Eve AND New Year's Day, which honestly shouldn't even count as two separate holidays. It has a 67% approval rating, which means a third of the country actively does not approve of Father's Day. And this year it's not even the biggest thing happening in June. The country is turning 250, there's a UFC cage match on the W...

Every cigar person has that shelf. The one in the back of the humidor that you don’t touch. The aged ones. The rare ones. The ones you bought for a special occasion that never came. The ones you keep rotating to the back because the moment never feels big enough. Tonight we’re done waiting. The whole Cigars Daily LIVE crew is pulling their most guarded, most precious, most untouchable cigars out of hiding and we’r...

Two cigars. Same brand. Same blender. Completely different weight classes. Tonight we’re locking them both in the cage and only one is walking out with the win.

One of these cigars was built for the backyard. Grab a box, throw it in the cooler, show up to the cookout and be everybody’s favorite person. The other one was built for a leather chair, a pour of something barrel-aged, and a night where you’re not in any ...

July 4th, 2026 is America's 250th birthday. Two and a half centuries since the Declaration of Independence was signed and the whole experiment got started. The country is throwing a party and the cigar industry showed up with something I honestly did not expect. An actual American puro. Every single leaf grown right here in the United States. No Nicaraguan filler. No Dominican binder. No Ecuadorian wrapper. Just American dirt, Amer...

Last year My Father dropped the Blue and it changed the conversation. A Honduran puro from the Garcia family, produced at their brand new factory, and it flew off shelves faster than anyone expected. Some people called it a home run. Some thought it was just okay. But nobody ignored it. Now the second cigar out of that same Honduras factory has arrived and it's called La Lealtad, which means "The Loyalty." Tonight we're putting it ...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE, I've got fresh space in the humidor and I'm looking to fill it with cigar makers that are actually worth going all in on. Not brands with one good cigar. Brands that show real consistency, identity, momentum, and staying power. I've already placed some big bets on names like Crowned Heads, Tatuaje, Atabey, Byron, Alfonso, Meerapfel, Ozgener, El Mago, and United. Tonight I'll tell you exactly why each o...

PCA 2026 is almost here and the announcements are coming in faster than we can keep up with. Dunbarton just dropped 18,000 new releases. Espinosa is putting out eight-ish. My Father has La Lealtad. Oliva built a humidor shaped like a soccer ball. Plasencia rebranded the whole company. And we haven’t even gotten to the show floor yet. Tonight the whole crew is pulling up to talk about the releases we’re actually getting ...

PCA 2026 is right around the corner and the leaks are already out of control. Plasencia is changing their entire logo and brand identity for the first time in forever. My Father just announced a brand new release called La Lealtad coming out of their Honduras factory. And Oliva just dropped maybe the most bizarre release I’ve seen in a long time. A Serie V Melanio humidor shaped like a literal soccer ball. I’m not makin...

If you've watched this show for any amount of time, you know Billy. The man, the myth, the chicken wrangler. Cigars Daily's fictional CEO who rules the roost with an iron beak and has earned a cult following among the Cigars Daily Nation. Tonight we're sitting down with Jonas Santana of Blackbird Cigar Co. to introduce Billy's very own blend. It's called Cock of the Walk, and it's a four-country 6x52 Toro that struts exactly like i...

Tonight on Cigars Daily LIVE we've got Nick Melillo of Foundation Cigars in the house. Nick is one of the most respected names in the business and Foundation is celebrating 10 years, so we're getting into the whole story. How the brand started, what it took to build it, and what he's learned along the way about making something that lasts in this industry.

We'll talk about the Foundation 10th Anniversary blend, the Knight Commander,...