Healdsburg, Calif. Suspends Tobacco Purchase Age Increase
Just about a year since voting to increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 and three months since the change went into effect, the city of Healdsburg, Calif. is suspending...
View ArticleLa Aurora Untamed Extreme Robusto
Last year, La Aurora added the Untamed, the most dramatic departure to the company’s then 111-year-old portfolio. It was not only a matter of making a stronger cigar than La Aurora is known for, but...
View ArticleCrowned Heads Mason-Dixon Project Returning For 2015
The Mason-Dixon Project—Limited Edition is returning, but with completely new blends. As with last year’s inaugural release from Crowned Heads, there will be two different blends, one sold in stores...
View ArticleLeaf by Oscar Adding Lancero in November
The Leaf by Oscar line will be adding a limited edition lancero vitola to all four of its blends in early November, but don’t expect to see it everywhere. The new size will only be made available to...
View ArticleGeneral Gives Back With CAO Honor
Earlier this year, a new product from General Cigar Co. appeared without much fanfare. It was CAO Honor, a 6 1/2 x 52 toro made in similar fashion to the company’s holiday releases of recent years. At...
View ArticleAsylum Pays Tribute to Devil’s Night with New Cigar
“Help a firefighter—burn a cigar, not a house.” That is Tom Lazuka’s motto for the newest cigar from the Asylum brand, Devil’s Night. It’s a cigar being created not for Halloween, but for an older...
View ArticleVilliger Shipping San’Doro
The newest Villiger is on its way to retailers. It’s actually three new Villigers, all under the San’Doro name. The company previewed the cigars at both the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show in July...
View ArticleIncrease in Minimum Purchasing Age for Tobacco Proposed in Pennsylvania
There’s another anti-tobacco bill in the state of Pennsylvania, this time, new rules on who is able to purchase tobacco. Rep. Vanessa Brown, D-Philadelphia, has introduced H.B. 1628, which would change...
View ArticleCAO Makes Pumpkin Spice Cigar
The pumpkin spice craze has now come to cigars. General Cigar Co. has informed retailers about its latest CAO holiday edition, Rider’s Revenge. While many of the details remain the same—6 1/2 x 52...
View ArticleTatuaje The Hyde
It’s that time of year again. Tatuaje’s legendary and-or infamous Monster Series is back with another release, The Hyde. It all started in 2008 with The Drac and much simpler times. Release a cigar...
View ArticleCaldwell Plans Eastern Standard Maduro for 2016
Next year, there will be a maduro cigar in the Caldwell Collection. Robert Caldwell confirmed to halfwheel that his company will add an Eastern Standard Maduro line next year. “We do not have a Maduro...
View ArticleWilson Adams Mr. Wilson
Just as spring was beginning to shift into summer this year, the cigar company Wilson Adams underwent its own rebirth with the launch of a new cigar, the Wilson Adams Mr. Wilson. Formed in 2011 as a...
View ArticleKILO Toro
In 2013, when former blogger Barry Stein was working at Miami Cigar & Co., he started working on a cigar of his own called the KILO. When he moved jobs and joined Two Guys Smoke Shop, the KILO...
View ArticleContest: de Garde Brewing Tipsy Cow Glass from Tenemu.com
Sister site Tenemu.com is giving away an extremely rare beer glass, with a drunk cow on it.
View ArticleThompson Adds Special Fuente Hemingway Size for 100th Anniversary
Yesterday, Thompson Cigar launched its latest 100th anniversary cigar, this time from Arturo Fuente. The Arturo Fuente Hemingway TCC 100th Anniversary is a 5 1/2 x 52 perfecto made in the classic...
View ArticleRevamped Espinosa Habano Hits Humidors This Week
Expect to see the new look Espinosa Habano at your local retailers in the coming days, as the company released the first shipments late this week. The cigar was on display at the 2015 IPCPR Convention...
View ArticleWeekly News (Oct. 19, 2015)
Cigar News Arturo Fuente Don Carlos Eye of the Shark Arrives Asylum Announces Devil’s Night Caldwell Plans Eastern Standard Maduro for 2016 CAO Flavours Rider’s Revenge Ships CAO Honor Formally...
View ArticleAVO Serenata Robusto
What a difference two years makes. When we visited the Davidoff of Geneva USA booth at the 2013 IPCPR, the Camacho relaunch was in full swing and the AVO brand was continuing on much as it always had,...
View ArticleDissident’s Gorden Crippen & Ryan Johnson Leave
The faces of Dissident Cigars, as well as Wichita, Kan.-based The Humidor Cigars and Lounge, are departing. Gorden Crippen announced that he and Ryan Johnson are no longer part of either operation. The...
View ArticleCamacho Announces Revamped Machitos
The Camacho relaunch isn’t over just yet. Today, the brand announced that it would begin shipping new versions of its Machitos, short cigars in tins, with the blends and packaging of its revamped...
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