In February 2014, the website CigarFederation.com announced the launch of its first cigar, The Collective. If you’re not familiar with the site, it was launched in October 2011 by Kyle Hoover, Chris Kelly and Alan Fonseca, a trio whose names you might otherwise know as the people that launched Ezra Zion. As they state on the site, the initial vision was “to create a multi-dimensional cigar themed site that featured the best parts of other sites that they enjoyed,” bringing together news, reviews, forums and social networking. As Ezra Zion grew, including getting picked up for distribution by Gary Griffith’s House of Emilio, the trio’s attention needed to be focused more on that company, and while they maintain ownership of CigarFederation.com, the site’s day-to-day operations were turned over to Logan Lawler and Rob Rasmussen, who are known for their weekly online show CigarChat. The launch of The Collective brings Hoover and Kelly directly back into the Cigar Federation mix as they handled the blending for the cigar, which was produced at Casa Fernandez’s Miami factory, the same factory that produced the company’s Tantrum line. The Collective, which “pays homage to New Media and the online cigar community,” is a single vitola release, with the cigar measuring 6 ...
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