Doc demonstrates how to purge your cigar. Two types of purges, the "dry" purge and the "flambé" purge are discussed. These techniques will keep your cigar smoking fresh and sweet and enhance your enjoyment of your cigar.

This is the fifth and final stop in a tour series of videos where Doc takes you on a personal tour of his humidor and cigar collection. This video displays a wine cooler converted into a cabinet humidor.

This is the fourth stop in a tour series of videos where Doc takes you on a personal tour of his humidor and cigar collection. This video displays desktop humidors.

This is the third stop in a tour series of videos where Doc takes you on a personal tour of his humidor and cigar collection. This video displays my travel humidors.

This is the second stop in a tour series of videos where Doc takes you on a personal tour of his humidor and cigar collection.

This is the first in a series of videos where Doc takes you on a personal tour of his humidor and cigar collection. This first leg of the tour takes a look at Doc's large cabinet humidor and some of the cigars within.

This is the second in a two-part series on Quality Control. This video will help everyone to better appreciate the many quality control processes that are used when making a premium hand made cigar. This video focuses on the final processes in making a cigar. These are the quality control measures that take place in factory.

This is the first in a two-part series on Quality Control. In this video, I interview José Blanco, National Sales Director of La Aurora, and ask him to provide a survey of quality control steps from seed to cigar.

DESCRIPTION: Retrohaling is a technique that we practice and recommend so that people can experience the broadest range of flavors and sensations from their cigars. In this video, Doc explains why retrohaling is important and how to retrohale your cigar smoke.

OUTLINE:

1. Doc provides a little background info on the origin of the term "retrohale."
2. The second section provides a little anatomy lesson regarding gustation (taste) and olfaction (smell).
3. Orthonasal olfaction involves moving particles to your olfactory bulb via the front of your nose.
4. Retronasal olfaction involves moving particles to your olfactory bulb via the "back door," that is, via your mouth and throat.
5. Doc explains techniques for retrohaling.
6. Doc summarizes the importance of retrohaling to the cigar enthusiast.

DESCRIPTION: This video will explore the making of a handmade, premium cigar. Narrated by Doc Stogie Fresh, you will see the processes in preparing and producing a fine cigar. After the tobacco has been grown, picked, cured, fermented, and aged, it is ready to be assembled into cigars. This video shows how the wrapper, binder and filler leaves are prepared and then put together into cigars. Different techniques for bunching and rolling the cigars are also demonstrated. SPANISH TERMS: Belicoso = a cigar with tapered headBonchero(a) = BuncherChaveta = curved bladeDespalillador(a) = De-veinerFigurado = a generic term referring to any cigar that is not of the Parejo shape.Goma = vegetable-based glueParejo = basic straight-sided cigarPyramid = a cigar that is thickest at the foot and gradually tapers toward the headTabla = rolling tableTorcedor = cigar rollerTorpedo = originally a slang term for pyramid