Cigar Magazine Adds Blogs

Posted on March 24, 2007

M. Shanken Communications has added blogs to the website for its magazine Cigar Aficionado after finding success with blogs on its wine website WineSpectator.com. Cigar Aficionado is offering four blogs written by Executive editor Gordon Mott, European editor James Suckling, senior editor David Savona and senior features editor Jack Bettridge.

The topics are limitless and may range from counterfeit cigars to a new spirit on the market, to a memorable round of golf at a storied track.

The blogs are free for all to view, and subscribers to Cigar Insider can also submit posts and enjoy a direct dialogue with the editors.

"The blogs give the editors of Cigar Aficionado a unique opportunity to write on a variety of topics, not always about cigars and at times on a whim," said Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Cigar Aficionado. "They have been hugely popular with our sister site, WineSpectator.com and we are confident the same will be true for Cigar Aficionado."

As you might expect the blog posts discuss cigars. For example, James Suckling is surprised by the strength of petit cigars and Gordon Mott remembers his first great Cuban cigar. M. Shanken Communications' other website Wine Spectator offers about a dozen blogs.

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