No joy supersedes that of having a baby. A new baby represents the beginning of a new chapter in life and the official benchmark of adulthood. A new baby is a joyous occasion often celebrated with gifts for the mother. But what about the father?
We believe the best gift to give to a new father is a cigar. In fact, there are cigar lines from numerous premium brands specially made for this occasion, the 'It's a Boy,' and 'It's a Girl' lines.
Why Cigars?
The tradition of gifting cigars to commemorate the birth of a baby dates back to the 17th and 18th centuries with people living in North America and slowly worked its way south during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The presumption is that since fathers were not included in the birthing process, all they could do was wait around and smoke. Before hospitals, the wait would be in a separate room or out with friends. Upon confirmation that the babies were born, the father would pass special cigars to his friends to celebrate the momentous occasion. Even after hospitals, fathers still upheld the tradition of giving cigars to their friends to mark the event.
The tradition is still common today and handing out cigars to friends, family members and colleagues is still the classiest way to memorialize the arrival of a new baby.
Tasting Notes
Quite a number of premium brands carry the Baby Cigar lines. However, only a few caught our eye as the best picks for Baby Cigars in the market. Top on our list are the Rocky Patel, Arturo Fuente, Cuesta Rey, and the Alec Bradley brands.
Alec Bradley, It's a Boy/Girl Cigars
The Alec Bradley brand is synonymous with quality in the stogie world. Despite being a relatively new brand, Alan Rubin, the founder of Alec Bradley has beaten many older brands to become a legit household name in the cigar circles.
The Alec Bradley Baby Cigar line comes in a 6 x 50 Toro. Each stogie in this line packs a blend of Honduran and Nicaraguan tobacco draped in a Connecticut Habano Leaf wrapper. This is the same blend used in the Alec Bradley Classic stogie, a blend so exquisite they used it twice.
Prepare your taste buds for a flavor journey featuring dark chocolate creamy punches, cedar, spicy subtleties, and a rich, earthy, leathery long finish. This cigar boasts savory transitions and a sudden kick in strength mid-smoke.
We love that Alec Bradley has his own Avant Garde ways of ensuring each of his cigars maintains a level of mystery. This Alec Bradley Baby Cigar is a legit mild-medium smoke that somehow grows darker and more complex in the middle working up the strength to a very close full-body before mellowing back to a mild towards the nub. It is an absolute treat and a superb way to commemorate as unique an occasion as the birth of a baby.
Alan Rubin sure knows how to pull at the heartstrings of cigar-loving parents around the world. He made choosing the Alec Bradley Baby Cigars as the perfect daddy gift a no-brainer by turning the Cigar box into a keepsake. The box comes with an inbuilt picture frame where you can insert your baby's picture. Inside the lid is an area where you can write down the stats of the baby like the name, weight, height and so on.
Proud daddies around the world display their Alec Bradley Baby Cigar box with a picture of their precious baby on their desks or next to the humidor. They are color coordinated too, blue for the boys and pink for the girls. In a Nutshell
