Litto Gomez and La Flor Dominicana have announced plans to attend the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. On January 10th, four large companies: Altadis U.S.A., Davidoff, Drew Estate, and General Cigar Company announced they would not be attending the 2020 PCA Trade Show. This has led to many companies stating their attendance plans for […]
Mombacho Cigars S.A. has announced today that it will start distribution in Spain through Ramon Zapata’s La Casa Del Tabaco SLU. It’s the fifteen country Mombacho will have distribution from. “Since years ago, I’ve been in constant contact with La Casa del Tabaco executives about distributing Mombacho Cigars in Spain, the largest premium cigar market […]
The Cigar of the Year Countdown is a quantitative analysis of the best cigars of 2019. The Countdown is built strictly on merit and does not factor in price. A few years ago, I started to take a closer look and see how this list would look if price were to be factored in. The […]
Cigar Marketplace has announced its first exclusive offering. It will be a new 4 x 36 size of the popular AJ Fernandez New World line packaged in tins where distribution will be handled exclusively by Cigar Marketplace. The new offering will be launched officially at the Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 2020. The New World tins […]
Cavalier Genève has announced plans to attend the 2020 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. On January 11th, four large companies: Altadis U.S.A., Davidoff, Drew Estate, and General Cigar Company announced they would not be attending the 2020 PCA Trade Show. This has led to many companies stating their attendance plans for the Trade Show. […]
At the Tobacco Plus Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, Espinosa Cigars will re-introduce its Vanilla sweet-tipped cigar known as @ZUCAR. @ZUCAR originally was released in 2016. Espinosa Cigars has said the cigar has been re-blended and will now be packaged in more traditional boxes. The cigar features Dominican long filler and wrapper tobacco as well […]
The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. It is meant to serve as a barometer in terms of how the cigars were assessed. Today we slice this data by cigar brand, a category we have ranked since 2012. This […]
For Prime Time Jukebox Episode 3, we ring in the New Year by looking back at 2019. We’ll recap some of our hits and misses when it comes to cigars in 2019. We’ll recap our Top 6 songs from 2019, and make some picks for the Grammys – namely who will win and who […]
For Episode 124, we are honored to have the Executive Director of the Premium Cigar Association (PCA), Scott Pearce as our special guest on Prime Time. Scott’s got one of the toughest jobs in the cigar industry – and we’re honored he has taken the time to join our show. We’ll tackle all of the […]
Villiger’s La Libertad brand is one that has undergone some significant changes. The brand was simply known as La Libertad when it was launched in 2010. In 2017, Villiger Cigars introduced new packaging for the U.S. market. As a part of those changes, the Villiger name was added to La Libertad’s packaging for the first […]
