Lone Star Cigar Bash

 

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) March 07, 2013 Finck’s Cigar Factory Outlet is hosting its biggest charity event of the year, the Lone Star Cigar Bash. This second annual event is San Antonio’s only cigar festival. The charity event will take place on Saturday, April 27, from 4-8 p.m. at Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch.
Finck’s donates 100 percent of the proceeds from ticket sales to Fisher House at Lackland AFB. Fisher House provides a "home-away-from-home" for the families of seriously ill or injured servicemen being treated in San Antonio. Families come to stay close to their loved ones for as long as they need completely free of charge. Continued

Finck Travis Club Classic Cigars

Yes, there is such a thing as a machine made long filler cigar, it's called the Finck Travis Club Especiale, and like all the Travis Club Classic cigars, it's available with a Connecticut Shade or dark maduro Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. However, only the Especiale is 100% long filler, though the Senator and Corona are both a combination of long filler and cut filler, and if that doesn't please you, there's 9 other sizes of Travis Club Classics made with short filler to smoke.
The best way to try these cigars is via the sampler, which contains 21 of these interesting cigars to enjoy. The cigars are well constructed, and are mild in strength and taste. I liked all of them, especially the maduros, which Finck seems to have a way with.
A hundred years ago, these cigars were the private brand of the Travis Club in San Antonio, Texas. The club is long gone, but the name lives on with these and the Travis Club Premium brands. Finck cigars have long been a regional favorite, but thanks to the internet, they are now available to anyone.

Finck cigar shop to open location in Helotes

(mysanantonio.com) Finck's Cigar Factory Outlet, which is known to have a retail location with the largest walk-in humidor in Texas, is moving into a new space in Helotes.
The San Antonio cigar retailer leased a 3,364-square-foot space at Helotes Plaza at 12940 Bandera Road, near FM 1516. The company has its factory on the West Side at 414 Vera Cruz Street. Continued

Finck Cigar Company: The Sam Houston Maduro is a Sweet and Sour Treat

The Sam Houston Maduro cigar has a rum flavored filler surrounded by an unflavored maduro wrapper - the best of both worlds. A good time to have one is when you can't decide if you want a sweet cigar or not. I called it sweet & sour, but sweet & savory would be more apt. This is another of Finck's "value cigars," and has a homogenized binder, which, happily, gets lost between the filler and wrapper. The maduro wrapper is one of the best I've tasted on an inexpensive cigar.
Sam Houston's can also be had with a Connecticut shade wrapper or an Indonesian wrapper. The filler is "a very mild blend of Connecticut, Honduran and Brazilian" tobaccos. Sam Houston's aren't my idea of an all-day smoke, but they're a great evening cigar. From the factory, they sell for a little over a dollar a piece.
This is the last of my reviews of Finck's cheaper brands, I sampled them from the company's Super Value Sampler, which offers up 43 of their economy cigars (8 or 9 each of 5 brands), for 43 dollars. They are nothing fancy, but they all taste good and are well made to boot.

Finck Cigar Company: W. F. Mild Natural - Fragrant as a Rebel Sawbuck

My first whiff of an unlit W. F. Mild Natural cigar took me back to my childhood - it smelled just like confederate money. I collected the stuff when I was a kid, being the the cheapest type of Civil War relic available. Most of it smelled like tobacco, especially the ten dollar bills, I guess because people kept their cash and tobacco together, back then.
Nostalgia aside, the Fink W. F. Mild Natural is "made with mild, smooth Connecticut Shade wrapper, Nuway binder and a flavorful blend of imported and domestic fillers." It really is mild, very mild, but not lacking in flavor. It reminds me of Prince Albert Pipe Tobacco, not so much in flavor, but as an inexpensive tobacco product that I can smoke throughout day, not because it's all I can afford, but because I like it. The taste is basic tobacco with a hint of salt.
Mild Naturals come in several different sizes, all named after American cities, I've been smoking the "Toledo," which measures 5.5 x 43. They sell for around a dollar each. Maduro fans may want to try the W. F. Mild Maduro, which is very good too, though it doesn't smell unreconstructed.

Finck Cigar Company: H.W.F. Grande

Says Finck, "A short, fat perfecto. At one time, this was the most popular shape in the U.S.!" It reminds me of Irving Kissinger, our plumber when I was a boy, who smoked cigars just like these. Sure, some may call it a "grandpa cigar," but grandpa beat the Great Depression, won the war, and left the country a better place than you ever will, so maybe he knew a little bit about tobacco as well.
The H.W.F. Grande is a step up from the previously reviewed Fink Alamo Sweet, in that it wears a natural wrapper, though its underwear is still Nuway. Nevertheless, it does have a more natural taste than the Alamo and requires no sugar, nor any excuses, whatsoever. It's a good smoke, just the way it is. Maybe its time to stop putting on airs and embrace your inner grandpa.
By the box, from the factory, H.W.F. Grande cigars go for almost exactly a buck a piece.

Finck Cigar Company: Alamo Sweet

In our anachronistic search for the Great American Cigar, we are going to leave the fecund shores of the Susquehanna River, traveling to the sunny Southwest, home of the Finck Cigar Company in San Antonio, Texas. The Finck family has been producing cigars 117 years straight, mostly for the territory of the old Trans-Mississippi, more recently for the country at large. Unlike a lot of old-time American cigar makers, Finck seems to understand that the internet is a great way to sell things. And they sell lots of things, particularly their own line of cigars, which number quite a few in variety.
I've been sampling Fink's offerings, starting from the cheapest on up, for awhile now, and am impressed with all of them. Finck seems determined to make the point that a machine made cigar does not have to be a shoddy cigar, their quality control is excellent, and unlike a lot of machine made cigars I have smoked, the draw on each and every one is very good. Most, but not all, of Finck's cigars are manufactured in the USA, using a variety of ingredients, from homogenized wrappers and/or binders, to natural wrappers & binders with cut filler, to mixed fillers, and even a machine made long filler model. They also offer a few hand-rolled.
The first cigar I tried was the Alamo Sweet, which is one of Finck's cheapest cigars. It features a "homogenized wrapper and binder and a select blend of good quality Nicaraguan and Connecticut fillers," and sells for around $35 per box of 50 for the full sized perfecto, less for the cigarillo. The machine made perfecto is perhaps the ultimate work cigar, easy to light, no cutter required.
As the name implies, this is a sweetened cigar, and with good reason. Homogenized wrappers and sugar go together like pancakes & syrup, and this cigar is plenty sweet. It's the sweetest Sweet I've ever tasted. If Swisher Sweets are too sugary for your tastes, stay away from this one, if however, you can't get enough syrup on your waffles, this is the cigar for you. It also burns evenly, is well constructed, and despite its modest ingredients, this little perfecto carries a certain jaunty dignity, sporting a cello wrapper and genuine cigar band featuring a picture of its namesake. In short, the Alamo Sweet is an enjoyable smoke that won't let you down. A person would have to travel a long way to find a better cigar in its class.