Padrón to Release Reserva Millennium
With the year 2000 on the horizon, Padrón did what they do best to celebrate the beginning of a new millennium: release a limited edition cigar, producing 100,000 cigars in a specially blended version...
View ArticleTobacco Age Increase Bill Clears Committee in New Jersey
After sitting untouched since its introduction to the Assembly in May 2014, a bill seeking to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and electronic smoking devices in New Jersey took its...
View ArticleGran Habano Cigars Plans The Elegance Collection for February
Fans of Gran Habano’s Corojo #5 line who have wanted smaller ring gauges have something exciting to look forward to early in 2016, as the company has announced The Elegance Collection by Gran Habano, a...
View ArticleLUJ Closes Out 2015 with Limited Edition Oyin
LUJ Premium Cigars is closing out 2015 with a limited edition release, as the company has shipped its latest cigar, called Oyin, to retailers in recent weeks. Breaking from its usual shroud of secrecy,...
View ArticleQuesada Keg Returns for 2016
The Quesada and Plasencia families are once again collaborating on the Quesada Keg Edition, a cigar blended to be paired with an Irish stout and enjoyed in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. The blend...
View ArticleViaje Sends Thanksgiving Leftovers to Winston’s Humidor
Andre Farkas had mentioned the idea of a cigar called Thanksgiving Leftovers on social media just over two months ago, and this week it has become a reality as a single store exclusive for Winston’s...
View ArticleGran Habano to Launch Two New Lines, Three New Sizes of Corojo #5 in 2016
Gran Habano has shared with halfwheel plans for two new lines that will debut in the summer of 2016 around the time of the annual IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, as well as plans for three new,...
View ArticleAlec Bradley Post Embargo Arrives at Retail
At this summer’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Alec Bradley showed off a new line of cigars called Post Embargo, with the promise that it would be on a limited number store shelves by the end of...
View ArticleWhere Premium Cigars Stand in Congress
If you’re a cigar smoker you’ve probably heard requests for you to call members of Congress to tell them to exempt premium cigars from regulation by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)....
View ArticleMBombay Kēsara Vintage Reserve Nikka (Prerelease)
In November, Bombay Tobak announced the addition of both a new blend and a new vitola with a familiar moniker: the Kēsara Vintage Reserve Nikka. While the cigar shares a name with the company’s Kēsara...
View ArticleHabanos S.A. To Name Borja Casanova CFO
Habanos S.A. is reported to have named a new chief financial officer, as Diadema SpA, the Italian distributor of Habanos products recently issued a congratulatory press release announcing that Borja...
View ArticleMy Father Slates Garcia y Garcia for February
For the last few months, My Father Cigars has hinted about a new release for the company’s portfolio, Garcia y Garcia. It’s named after the duo behind the cigars blending: José “Pepín” García and his...
View ArticleWeekly News (Dec. 14, 2015)
Cigar News Alec Bradley Ships Post Embargo Black Works Studio Ships First Three Lines Caldwell Blind Man’s Bluff Corona Heads to Burns Tobacconist Davidoff to Distribute S.T. Dupont Gran Habano Reveals...
View ArticleViaje’s Holiday Blend and Candy Cane Edición Limitada Ship With New Ashtrays...
Today Viaje will be sending what figures to be its final release of 2015 to retailers in time to have it on store shelves for the Christmas rush, as the company is shipping the Holiday Blend 2015 and...
View ArticleDignity Slates Debauchery for February
Dignity Cigars, the company known for its portfolio of Costa Rican puros, has announced that its next release will be a limited production called Debauchery that is scheduled to be on store shelves in...
View ArticleSosa Brings Back Santa Julia
First it was Imperio Cubano Miami, then it was Macabi USA; now Antillian Cigar Corp. is bring back another brand from Sosa’s history, Santa Julia. The cigar is named after the Vega Santa Julia, the...
View ArticleCabal Event Short Robusto (2015)
Earlier this year I reviewed the Cabal Event Short Robusto, that, as the name suggests, is only available at Cabal Cigars events. The first event it debuted at was the launch party for Linda, which was...
View ArticleSTOGIES Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Room101
STOGIES World Class Cigars is celebrating its 20th anniversary next year, but the cigar commemorating the occasion, oddly, won’t be a lancero. The Houston, Texas retailer has gained national notoriety...
View ArticleLeaf by Oscar Maduro Lancero
In mid-October, news began to surface that the Leaf by Oscar line, the one that his been gaining a groundswell of attention over the past year and a half, would be adding a limited release lancero to...
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