Joya de Nicaragua is celebrating its golden jubilee with a silver cigar. The company will expand its Joya family—which includes Joya Red and Joya Black—to include Joya Silver. It uses an Ecuadorian oscuro wrapper over a Mexican binder and Nicaraguan fillers. The company describes the release as “medium-full.” “With each ...
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Live from the halfwheel office, it’s a show that will inspire some controversy. Join Brooks and I as we talk about the top five cigars we want to smoke at this year’s trade show. We’ll each list out our top five—based on what we know now—and we’ll take a look ...
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Warped has announced that Serie Gran Reserva 1988 is ready for release. In a post on Instagram, Kyle Gellis, the company’s founder, mentioned that the cigar is now “released,” though in an email with halfwheel he later clarified that “shipping will commence post IPCPR.” The 2018 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, which ...
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Cigar companies will not have to place warning labels on boxes beginning Aug. 10, 2018. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled that requirements for cigar boxes and advertisements to carry warning labels will be delayed until 60 days after an appeal has been decided by the U.S. Court ...
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Altadis U.S.A. is the latest to up the ante in the battle of A.J. Fernández-produced blends, as the company has teamed with Abdel Fernández for a new line called the Montecristo Nicaragua Series, which will be added to the brand’s core portfolio. It’s a Nicaraguan puro that is being offered ...
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Rocky Patel Premium Cigars is about to launch a new limited edition cigar line called ALR, an abbreviation for Aged, Limited & Rare. It’s a project that Rocky Patel said he conceived of some three years ago when he created a cigar that used an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a ...
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At this month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, four CLE Cigar Co. lines will receive three new sizes. The company’s CLE Connecticut, CLE Corojo, CLE Habano and CLE Azabache will be the ones receiving the extensions. Those three sizes are 4 x 54, 4 x 60 and 4 x 70. ...
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Flat flame lighters have been part of the cigar accessories landscape for a while, but now one of the best-known names in the industry is releasing its first entry. At next week’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, XIKAR will show off the Verano Flat Flame lighter, which the company says ...
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La Sonrisa Cigars is paying tribute to one of the company’s co-founders with a limited edition cigar named after his profession. El Profesor is being made in honor of Wally Stealey, who in addition to co-founding La Sonrisa, was also a lobbyist, political scientist and professor at Southern Colorado State ...
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For the first time ever, XIKAR has a lighter that does not require butane. It’s called the XIKAR XFlame, a battery-powered lighter that uses an electronic coil to light cigars. To light your cigar, you first need to activate the XFlame, which can reach temperatures around 500 degrees. From there, ...
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Joya de Nicaragua is 50-years-old and now it has a cigar fitting for the occasion. The Joya de Nicaragua Cinco Décadas, Spanish for five decades, pays tribute to Nicaragua’s oldest cigar factory. It will be offered in two vitolas—Diadema (6 x 54, $19.99) and El General (7 x 50, $18.99)—the same two ...
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XIKAR has announced two new lighters for the company’s High Performance Collection: HP3 and Turismo. The Turismo lighter was actually leaked a couple months ago by Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac, whose company is getting an exclusive colorway. It’s a double flame lighter, which comes in an all-metal body highlighted by ...
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At next week’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, CLE Cigar Co. will be expanding its Prieto line with a new size. The CLE Prieto Box-Pressed Diadema measures 7 x 52. Prieto was introduced in 2016 using a Connecticut broadleaf over a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan fillers. It’s priced at $16 ...
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Quesada Cigars has announced that it has updated its Fonseca Classic line. The blend remains the same—a Connecticut wrapper over Dominican fillers—though the Miguel Nuñez, the company’s production manager, said the blend will have “more presence of flavors in the palate” due to a recent crop. The packaging has been ...
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Following reports of a suspected outbreak of norovirus, a serious version of the stomach flu, at the Westgate Resort & Casino, the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Association (IPCPR) has opted to move its events away from the hotel. The Westgate is one of two officially affiliated hotels with the IPCPR ...
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Cubariqueño Cigar Co. partners Bill Ives and Juan Cancel are both law enforcement officers, so it is not surprising when the names of their cigars all feature a law and order theme: the brand gets is name from the word that means “an official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of ...
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Attorneys for the three Texas-based cigar businesses that sued the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) over its cigar regulations have appealed a decision from earlier this week that moved their lawsuit to a Washington D.C. court. On Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson issued a ruling that moved the ...
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Canada is getting an exclusive release from Epic Cigars. The Epic Northern Comfort is a 6 x 54 toro extra that uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over a Dominican binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. It debuted last month with 100 bundles of 10 cigars, though there will be ...
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A week before the start of the 2018 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Viaje has shown off another one of its releases. It’s called Private Keep, though that’s all the company has shared so far. An email sent to a Viaje representative was not immediately returned. In addition to Private Keep, ...
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Modern Tobacconist Art, a Dominican-based cigar company best known for its Flor y Nata ad Noxio lines, has given its portfolio an updated look that is now on its way to retailers. The company started by updated its primary logo for the Flor y Nata brand to a flower design ...
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