Three New Alec Bradley Lines Appear in the Wild
While Alec Bradley didn’t have any new lines at this year’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, there were plenty of people who had heard the company had plans for dozens of new cigars to be released...
View ArticleAlec Bradley Previews Magic Toast
In addition to the three new lines, Alec Bradley has at least one another new line that it has quietly previewed. Habana Premium Cigar Shoppe of Albany, N.Y. has received the Alec Bradley Magic Toast....
View ArticleTobacco Purchase Age Passes First Vote in St. Louis County, Mo.
St. Louis County, Mo. took a big step towards raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products on Tuesday night, as the county council approved the first reading of the proposal by a 5-0 vote with...
View ArticleCroMagnon Firecracker
Back in April, Two Guys Smoke Shop announced the latest addition in their firecracker series, this time coming from RoMa Craft Tobac. The CroMagnon Firecracker sticks with the previous Firecracker’s...
View ArticleHumidor of Westmont Selected for September Box of Quesada España A-
Humidor Westmont of Westmont, Ill. has been selected to receive the September box of the Quesada España A-. Each month, Quesada selects one retailer to receive 10 boxes of the special 8 1/2 x 48 size,...
View ArticleCalifornia Legislature Approves Smoking Ban for State Parks and Beaches
California’s state parks and beaches could soon become places unwelcoming to smokers, as the California legislature has passed SB 1333, sending it to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature. Currently, it...
View ArticleNomad Offering SA-17 Lancero to All Retailers
Nomad Cigar Co. has expanded the distribution of its recently released SA-17 Lancero to all of its retailers after releasing it to a limited number of stores. Fred Rewey told halfwheel that he had...
View ArticleFDA Issues Cigar Warning, Advertising Plan Draft Guidance
When the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced its intention to regulate a variety of tobacco products, including cigars, it issued a variety of documents highlighted by a 499-page read...
View ArticleLas Cumbres Tabaco Adding Three New Lines
Las Cumbres Tabaco has three new lines coming to retail shelves, as the company has launched Señorial CT, Freyja Maduro and Freyja 12. The Señorial CT adds to José Blanco’s line, using an Ecuadorian...
View ArticleA.J. Fernández Plans Días de Gloria
There’s a host of new products from A.J. Fernández Cigars, one of which is named days of glory. That’s what the Spanish phrase Días de Gloria means. Dias de Gloria by @ajfcigars exhibits a creamy and...
View ArticleEl Rey del Mundo Petit Robustos (ER Spain 2015)
Late last year, a new Edición Regional arrived in Spain. In somewhat of a rare occurrence, this Edición Regional—the El Rey del Mundo Petit Robustos—actually arrived in the year it was designated. This...
View ArticleTownsend, Mass. Increases Tobacco Purchase Age Today
The rollout of what has become a city-by-city, town-by-town increase to the minimum age to purchase tobacco products reaches the northern Massachusetts town of Townsend today, as a change to the law...
View ArticleA.J. Fernández Adding Free World
It would appear there is a follow-up to A.J. Fernández Cigars’ most popular release. Free World is the new line, seemingly a follow-up to the company’s highly successful New World. According to the...
View ArticleDavidoff Unveils Exclusive Corona FSG 20th Anniversary
Since October 2014, Davidoff has been helping celebrate milestone anniversaries of its appointed merchants by producing limited edition cigars. In the case of Corona Cigar Co. in Orlando, Fla.,...
View ArticleSan Lotano 54s, Spanish Press Planned from A.J. Fernández
There are three new extensions planned for A.J. Fernández Cigars’ San Lotano line. Governors Cigar & Pipe of Monroe, La. posted an image showing three new extensions for the San Lotano line:...
View ArticleArchetype Strange Passage Robusto
Ventura Cigar Co., the premium cigar arm of Phillips & King International, has largely been known for two lines in recent years, PSyKo SEVEN and Project 805, which they released at the 2013 IPCPR...
View ArticleC.L.E. Cigars to Distribute Reyes Family Cigars
Reyes Family Cigars will soon be taking a different route to retailers, as the company is shifting its marketing, sales and distribution to Tabacaleras Unidas/C.L.E. Cigars. In the announcement,...
View ArticleA.J. Fernández Plans Enclave & New World Extensions
Two of A.J. Fernández’s newest lines will be getting extensions at some point in the near future. The company’s website shows two new versions of previous lines: Enclave Broadleaf and New World Habano...
View ArticleSobremesa Short Churchill
During the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Steve Saka’s Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust debuted its first release to some of the most intense hype of any new cigar company in recent memory....
View ArticleTwo Guys Smoke Shop Announces Fratello Will Make 2017 Firecracker
Two Guys Smoke Shop in Nashua, N.H. isn’t letting FDA regulations put an end to its annual Firecracker series, at least not for 2017. On Saturday’s episode of The Cigar Authority podcast, the store...
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