Gran Habano Ships Corojo #5 Grandioso
Gran Habano has expanded its popular Corojo #5 line with a new size that is now arriving at retail, the 7 x 70 Grandioso, while the entire line is getting an update as far as its packaging and...
View ArticleTatuaje Drinking Age Heads to Anthony’s Cigar Emporium
Next week, Anthony’s Cigar Emporium will take delivery of the Tatuaje Drinking Age, an exclusive cigar made for the store’s 21st anniversary. Pete Johnson of Tatuaje confirmed to halfwheel that the...
View ArticleTAA Retailers Getting New Padrón Exclusive
This summer, the 80 or so retailers that are members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA) will have a third exclusive cigar from Padrón to offer their customers. At the group’s 47th annual...
View ArticleG.A.R. Red Gets New Sizes, 50-Count Boxes
Gran Habano’s spring updates are getting another entry, this time for the company’s G.A.R. Red line. The company is making a few changes to the line, starting with two new sizes: 5 x 50 ($4) and 6 x 54...
View ArticleA.J. Fernandez New World Brute Heads to Texas Cigar Fest
The newest New World is heading to Texas, more specifically, the Texas Cigar Festival. The New World Brute, a 6 x 66 gran gordo, is the latest vitola in the line, an exclusive for Serious Cigar. “A.J....
View ArticleSchizo Maduro Heads to Retailers
There’s yet another addition to the Asylum Cigars and CLE Cigar Co. portfolios, Schizo Maduro. As the name implies, it’s a maduro version of the company’s Schizo line, which was part of the launch for...
View ArticleCaldwell Cigar Co. Grows Portfolio With Four New Sizes
Robert Caldwell is growing his company’s portfolio with the addition of four new sizes that will have a limited release this month before a full-scale launch at the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade...
View ArticleVertigo Victory V-Cutter
Billed as a “value” cutter line “targeted to budget minded consumers”, the Vertigo Victory V-Cutter is a standard v-cutter that is made of plastic for the covering and includes a stainless steel blade....
View ArticleNew Look Gran Habano Corojo #5 Maduro Arriving at Retail
Gran Habano has given its Corojo #5 Maduro line a fresh look for 2015 including new bands and boxes that have begun shipping out to retailers. Much like the Corojo #5 line, the maduro version uses a...
View ArticleCubariqueño Cigar Company to Debut with Protocol
Cubariqueño Cigar Company, the newly launched venture of Juan Cancel and Bill Ives, has announced that it will release its debut line, Protocol, next month in New Jersey. The line is billed as a...
View ArticleNomad Estelí Lot 8613 Toro
If you put all of Nomad Cigar Co.’s releases on a table and told me to pick one, I’d have a difficult time. It’s not that I don’t know which Nomad release I’d choose, I do; rather, I really don’t know...
View ArticleLa Flor Dominicana Returns to Texas Cigar Festival With Limited Edition
La Flor Dominicana will be back at the Texas Cigar Festival in Houston, and will once again be bringing a limited edition for sale to attendees. The 2015 edition uses the same tobacco blend as was used...
View ArticleCroMagnon Fomorian 2015
Now in its third release, RoMa Craft Tobac’s CroMagnon Fomorian has become a staple of the annual D.C. Cigar Tweet-Up, which was held March 13-14 in and around our nation’s capitol this year. The...
View ArticleWarped Cigars Shipping Flor del Valle Sky Flower on Monday
Kyle Gellis will be sending Warped Cigars’ latest creation to retailers on Monday, as he has informed halfwheel that the Flor del Valle Sky Flower is ready for a full release after debuting at Corona...
View ArticleParks in South Padre Island, Texas Recommended To Go Tobacco-Free
The South Padre Island Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee is expected to make a recommendation to the city council that all the city’s parks should be tobacco-free. The committee came to...
View ArticleLa Palina Goldie Robusto Extra for 2015
If Maria Sierra was at work yesterday, she was almost certainly rolling La Palina Goldies in a 6 1/10 x 50 size. That’s the next size of the popular limited edition line from La Palina, officially...
View ArticleRoom101 El Mas Chingon EMC #1
On April 2, Room101 released a retailer exclusive blend for Pennsylvania-based Famous Smoke Shop, a new line named El Mas Chingon, which roughly translates to the most epic in Spanish slang. The new...
View ArticleLa Flor De Cano Grandiosos (ER Asia 2013)
Punch, Ramón Allones, Bolívar and Por Larrañaga. If you were asked to name at least one Cuban Edición Regional cigar, chances are pretty high that one of those marcas would be the one you named. Of...
View ArticleWeekly News (April 20, 2015)
Cigar News Altadis U.S.A Announces Por Larrañaga En Cedro for TAA Retailers Boveda Adds Acrylic Humidor Caldwell Plans Extensions for 2015 CLE Signature Series Packaging Updated Cubariqueño Cigar...
View ArticleEl Centurion Toria
Not that long ago, it seemed like My Father Cigars was putting out store exclusives at an astonishing rate; most of them ended up in the company’s Flor de Las Antillas line, but there was one special...
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