It’s the fifth anniversary of The Westside Humidor in Wichita, Kan. and the store is celebrating with six store exclusives that highlight its love of movies and small batch cigars. “We are kinda sorta movie freaks,” said Gorden Crippen of The Westside Humidor, “so much so that one night we were watching Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and were struck with the idea that we should do an entire set of cigars based on the movie.” The idea gained traction among the group and they proceeded to build cigars around the main characters, and the fact that there were five main characters corresponded with the store’s anniversary. But as fans of the movie know a sixth character is killed off right after the credits, so Crippen and his crew decided that a sixth cigar would be “one to grown on.” For the project, he turned to six different manufacturers who are creating limited edition store exclusives for the celebration. Each made a special cigar that will be sold at the store individually as well as in a sampler packed called The Heist, a clear reference to the plot of Reservoir Dogs, which centers around a failed diamond heist. Two cigars should be somewhat familiar ...
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