In the spring of 2014, Crux Cigars began what looked like it would be a quick rise to prominence in the cigar industry. The company began announcing its debut lines in February, then announced that the formal launch would happen on April 1. The company and its cigars had been in the works for some two years, the creation of Jeff Haugen and Joel Rogers, the co-owners of Tobacco Grove in Maple Grove, Minn. Before the company shipped a single cigar, it had five lines announced: Skeeterz, Ninfamaniac, Bull & Bear, Passport and Classic. Not only had they not yet shipped a cigar, they hadn’t made an appearance on the cigar industry’s big stage yet, the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. That would come in July, and it would be there where Crux would unveil yet another cigar, Sports. The ultra compact Crux Sports measures 4 5/8 x 38, a petit corona made for shorter smoking times that uses a Nicaraguan habano wrapper from the Jalapa region, an Indonesian binder and Nicaraguan filler, with production handled by Plasencia Cigars S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua. Inspiration for the cigar came from the grandfather of Crux brand manager Mark Daum, who was said ...
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