Meerapfel Cigar has announced a new design for the wooden chest that is part of its Master Blend Series. The key feature of the new chest will be the introduction of a perforated double floor. Each chest will also be packed with two 60-gram Boveda packs. Meerapfel Cigar says the perforated double floor will allow […]
Last year, Viaje celebrated its 15th anniversary with the release of three different blends. This year, owner Andre Farkas opted to have a second celebration for his 15th anniversary. The company is releasing four cigars as a part of this second celebration. Like “Part 1” of the Viaje 15th Anniversary series, there is a 15th […]
Don Conrado Plasencia, brother of Sixto and uncle of Néstor Plasencia, has died. Don Conrado served for many years as factory director at the Plasencia’s Tabacos de Oriente factory in Danlí, Honduras. The Plasencia family settled in Nicaragua in 1965, two years after their tobacco operation was confiscated by the Cuban government. In 1978, during […]
Today, we look at a second blend from Foundation Cigar Company’s Olmec line, the Olmec Maduro. Olmec debuted at the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, and like many lines in the Foundation Cigar portfolio, it pays homage to a particular culture. In this case, the culture is the Olmecs, the earliest known major […]
Andy Yaffee, best known for being Micallef Cigars’ National Sales Director for the past four years, is leaving the company and joining Crowned Heads. Yaffee will be the territory sales representative for Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Washington D.C. Prior to joining Micallef, Yaffee spent five years as a sales representative for La […]
Once again, General Cigar’s Macanudo brand is teaming up with Napa Valley’s Flint Knoll Winery to release the Macanudo Estate Reserve Flint Knoll No. 2. Like the original Macanudo Estate Reserve Flint Knoll release, the cigar contains a binder leaf that was aged in Flint Knoll French Oak wine barrels. The blend for the Macanudo […]
On Special Edition #147, we welcome back Joshua Habursky, Deputy Executive Director, and Glynn Loope, State Advocacy Director of the Premium Cigar Association (PCA). While the cigar industry had a big win in the courts, there are plenty of battles still being fought, and we will get the latest from Josh and Glynn on this. […]
In 2004, Rocky Patel decided to launch a value-priced cigar that wouldn’t have any cigar bands, and would be packaged in 100-count crates. The cigar was dubbed The Edge and it became a huge hit for Patel’s Rocky Patel Premium Cigars company. Today the brand has now extended to eight different lines. The cigars now […]
La Aurora has announced a new limited edition line known as the La Aurora Small Batch. As the name indicates, this will be a series of small-batch, limited-edition cigars. The cigars that are a part of the series are blends by La Aurora Master Blender Manuel Inoa that have been in the aging rooms for […]
It’s all Metallica tonight as we talk Metallica the band, Drew Estate Blackened M81 Cigars, and Blackened American Whiskey, and Metallica. We’ll dive into the career of Metallica and go through some of our favorite and impactful songs by Metallica. We will do it while smoking M81 cigars and Coop will partake in some […]
