Warped & Casa Fernández Plan Futuro for IPCPR 2015
Two months after filing for a trademark on Futuro, Warped Cigars has announced the plans for the new cigar. According to a press release, Futuro was an idea hatched between Kyle Gellis of Warped and...
View ArticleLa Flor Dominicana TAA 47 (Prerelease)
The 2015 edition of the Tobbaconists’ Association of America meeting & convention likely set a new mark as far as the group of cigars that are available exclusively to the 80 or so retailer...
View ArticleHunters & Frankau Celebrates 225th Anniversary with a Ramón Allones
It’s been known for quite some time that Hunters & Frankau, the U.K. importer for Habanos S.A. had a cigar planned for its 225th anniversary and now it’s almost ready to hit shelves. It will be a...
View ArticleRoom101 Ichiban Ranfla Heads to Doc James Cigars
The third release of the Room101 Ichiban Series is headed to New York. Doc James Cigars, which has locations in Mamaroneck and Shrub Oak, N.Y., will receive the Room101 Ranfla (6 1/2 x 30/50/19) later...
View ArticleLa Colmena Reina
After being announced back in January, Warped Cigars shipped the fifth cigar in the La Colmena line exclusively to Orange, Calif.-based retailer Maxamar Ultimate Cigars and its online store,...
View ArticleIPCPR Convention & Trade Show 2016, July 24-28 in Las Vegas
While New Orleans will play host to the largest premium cigar trade show this year, it’s only a temporary thing. A representative of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association...
View ArticleJuan López Chiado 1864 Arrives in Portugal
Cross another one of Habanos S.A.’s 2014 Edición Regionals off the yet-to-arrive list, as the La Casa del Habano in Lisbon announced yesterday that the Juan López Chiado 1864 has arrived. The cigar is...
View ArticlePortraits: George Rico
There’s been the world’s largest cigar, a factory in Miami, controversy over guns and children on a box and a lot of other cigars in between. George Rico’s time in the cigar business has been busy. He...
View ArticleCañon City, Colo. Eyes Downtown Smoking Ban
Smoking outside in downtown Cañon City, Colo. might soon be a thing of the past. Earlier this week, City Attorney John Havens pushed for the Cañon City General Government Committee to ban smoking in...
View ArticleDavid Lampert Resigns as E.P. Carrillo VP of Sales
David Lampert’s tenure as the vp of sales and marketing for E.P. Carrillo will be a short one. Both Lampert and the company confirmed to halfwheel that he will resign effective May 19. Lampert joined...
View ArticleRoMa Craft Tobac’s Neanderthal Shipping Next Week
Next Friday, RoMa Craft Tobac retailers and fans will get there first chance to smoke something long on the horizon. RoMa Craf Tobac will begin shipping Neanderthal, the company’s first new line since...
View ArticleDunstable Cervantes
There’s always a new cigar brand, the latest of the bunch just happens to be Dunstable. There is no story of ancestral history in tobacco, no stories of top Cuban rollers, there’s actually very little...
View ArticleT.L. Johnson Splits from La Tradicion Cubana, Plans New Factory
Terry Johnson has announced that his T.L. Johnson brand has split from Cuban Tradition Cigar Group/La Tradicion Cubana and its Tabacalera LTC S.R.L. factory. Johnson told halfwheel that he plans a new...
View ArticleDavidoff Limited Masters Edition 2015 Toro
“April showers bring May flowers, but what do May flowers bring?” We all know that spring time joke, but the first week of April also brings one of the major professional golf tournaments, the Masters...
View ArticleMoving On (Down)
I’ve mentioned this story before, but it seems uniquely attached to this announcement and worth repeating. I remember a seminal moment for halfwheel: it was December 2011, less than a week before we...
View ArticlePaniolo Especiale 2015
In addition to building a portfolio of regular production and limited edition cigars, Crowned Heads has released a number of smaller run cigars and store exclusives—five last year and one so far in...
View ArticleHammer + Sickle Rebrands Icon to Trademark Series, Maduro Coming
After two years on the market, Hammer + Sickle is changing the name of its Icon Series to Trademark Series. The new name might be a bit of irony as a report from TheCigarAuthority indicates that the...
View ArticleWeekly News (May 11, 2015)
Cigar News Dunstable Cigar Co. Debuts — Review here. E.P. Carrillo VP of Sales Resigns Hammer + Sickle Icon Series Renamed to Trademark Series, Maduro Coming HVC Vieja Cosecha No.2 Slated for IPCPR...
View ArticleStatewide Minimum Tobacco Purchasing Age Proposed in Massachusetts, Again
Nowhere in the country has the fight to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco been more active than Massachusetts and now there’s a bill that is trying to raise the age on a statewide level, again....
View ArticleOregon Bill Would Raises Tobacco Purchasing Age to 21, Introduce New Retail...
A new bill introduced earlier this year in the Oregon Senate could result in a variety of new rules for selling tobacco in the state. The most notable of these changes would be that purchasing tobacco...
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