For the first time since its debut, the HVC Edición Especial is back. HVC Cigars has announced that the Edición Especial 2018 will feature three sizes, which was the plan with the original 2015 release, though only one size was ever released. The HVC Edición Especial 2018 will use a ...
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We’ve all heard the saying that there’s no place like home, and that’s a sentiment that’s shared by many in the cigar industry. Many cigar makers make tributes to their home country by way of flags in their logos, area codes as names of cigars, and so on. Some go ...
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The first maduro blend of La Barba Cigars will be shown off next month. It’s called Primitivo, named after an Italian grape often confused with Zinfandel, using a Mexican San Andrés maduro wrapper, an Indonesian binder and Dominican, Nicaraguan and Pennsylvania fillers. Production is being handled by Tabacalera William Ventura in ...
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Earlier this month, La Aurora showed off a new version of its flagship Puro Vintage line, though the company didn’t want to talk details. Now that information is out. The La Aurora Puro Vintage 2007 is a 6 1/2 x 50 salomon. As the name implies, Puro Vintage uses tobacco ...
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Southern Draw Cigars will increase its prices Aug. 1. The company says that most of its cigars will increase 20-25 cents per cigar. It says that new warning labels and other costs associated with U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) compliance are the main reasons behind the increase. In addition, ...
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There will be no new tobacco retailer licenses issued in St. Paul, Minn., as on Wednesday the city council approved an ordinance that will cap the number at 242, which is how many are currently issued. Any new retailer wishing to sell tobacco products in the city will have to ...
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At this year’s Procigar festival in the Dominican Republic, La Aurora gave attendees an all-new cigar: the La Aurora Hors d’Age. The company says the express means “beyond time” and that makes sense given the tobacco being used: it’s all from 2006. As for that tobacco, the wrapper and binder ...
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The Tobacco 21 movement has found officially spread to New Hampshire, as on Wednesday the Dover City Council passed an ordinance making it illegal for persons under 21-years-old to purchase, possess or use tobacco and tobacco alternative products. The age increase will go into effect following the city’s required publication ...
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Live from the halfwheel office it’s the first part of our IPCPR 2018 Preshow Live coverage. Today, Brooks Whittington and I will be talking about the changes coming to the 2018 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show including some trends that we’ve noticed this year. In addition, we’ll take your questions and ...
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If you had to ask Davidoff fans what are the three most legendary cigars the company has released since leaving Cuba, you would likely hear three names a lot: 22, LE05, Diademas Finas. Those names refer to three cigars—two from the company’s AVO brand—that were released in the first decade ...
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Kretek International’s premium cigar division, Ventura Cigar Co., will take over the distribution of Island Lifestyle Importers and its Tommy Bahama cigar accessories. The companies made the announcement ahead of next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. “We feel this is the perfect alignment of strengths,” said Rick Louis, ceo ...
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Miami Cigar & Co. will debut two new Tatiana flavored cigars at next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. Tatiana Caribbean Chill is a 6 x 44 lonsdale that is described as having flavors of “fresh mint, Caribbean rum and citrus.” It’s priced at $4.64 per cigar and is expected ...
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What’s old is new again has been the ongoing theme for this year. Most of that has been companies rereleasing old cigar brands, but Debonaire House is actually digging through its archives. That cigar is called Conservatory Selection, a 5 5/8 x 43 parejo that was rolled in 2009, before ...
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Colibri’s popular S-Cut cutter is getting a new serrated version this summer as part of the company’s 90th anniversary celebration. The S-Cut [serrated] is a double guillotine that uses new blades with a serrated edge, which the company says were developed to find the best tip-size that would give a ...
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Oscar Valladares’ newest cigar project is paying tribute to his Honduran roots with a dive into the history books and Mayan civilization for Altar Q by Oscar Valladares. As the company describes it, Altar Q is the most important monument at Copán, a historic and archaeological site in western Honduras ...
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At next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Gurkha Cigar Group Inc. will unveil Chateau de Prive, a new limited edition line. The cigars are packaged in bright, domed boxes. A press release describes the cigar as a “traditional mild and creamy smoke,” that it says is a departure from its ...
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Fans of Honduran corojo tobacco will soon have a new cigar to get excited about, as JRE Tobacco. Co. has announced the upcoming release of the Aladino Corojo Reserva, a single vitola puro using the varietal. The new cigar is coming in a 5 x 50 robusto vitola priced at ...
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Ahead of next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Drew Estate has announced four new bundle lines, each under the Factory Smokes by Drew Estate moniker. “Our expansion in the bundle business was a decision we did not take lightly,” said Jonathan Drew, the company’s co-founder and president, in a ...
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La Galera is releasing a quartet of new vitolas to its core lines this summer, and doing so by way of a limited edition project that the company is calling The Cubes. The brand’s Connecticut, Habano, Maduro, and 1936 Box Pressed lines are each getting a new size, each of ...
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Gurkha’s popular Ghost line will be getting a new extension. It’s called Ghost Gold, a three-size line, using an Ecuadorian habano wrapper, a criollo 97 binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and the U.S. Gurkha Ghost Gold Shadow (5 x 52) — $8 (Boxes of 21, $168) Gurkha ...
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