CONTEST: The Friday Cigar is One Year Old!!

One year ago today, we started this blog as a fun way to keep track of the cigars we'd sampled, and in that time we've learned a lot about the cigars that we smoke. We're surprised to see that over the last year we've reviewed a total of 43 cigars from 22 brands, attracting nearly 1500 readers a month. We've even had a new reviewer join the team. We'd like to think that readers enjoy our tongue-in-cheek approach to ratings and our ever-so-pretentious flavour descriptions, but chances are that readers come here because of the general lack of Cuban cigar reviews on the Interweb and the love Google has for blogs in its rankings.

Either way, we're proud of the work we've done on this site (if you can call it work) and excited for all the new cigars we'll smoke and review in the years to come. To help celebrate the first birthday of The Friday Cigar and to thank you for your support, we're giving away a sampler of some of the best cigars we've smoked over the last 12 months. The sampler includes one of each of the following (box dates are listed in parentheses):

Partagas Lusitanias (2007)

Montecristo No. 2 (2007)

Montecristo Sublimes Edicion Limitada (2008)

Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2 (2010)

Padron 1964 Diplomatico Natural (2009)

To enter the contest, all you have to do is post a comment below before 11:59 PM, Friday, October 22, 2010. We'll print out the name from each post on pieces of paper and draw them from a hat. The winner will be announced here on Saturday, October 23, so make sure to check back on that day to see if you've won. The winner must send us an email with your mailing address so that we can send you your prize. Please don't enter more than once so that everybody has a fair shot at winning.

Thanks again to you, the reader, for encouraging us to keep this up.


To another year!

- Sean & Carlton