With the 114th Congress now in session, the time has come to reintroduce legislation to exempt premium cigars from FDA regulation. House Bill (HR) 662 has been introduced by Representative Bill Posey of Florida to the U.S. House of Representatives. The purpose of the bill is to introduce legislation to exempt premium cigars from regulations […]
Planned Davidoff of Geneva Flagship Store in Houston, Texas (Photo credit : Oettinger Davidoff AG) Houston, Texas will become the next city to have a Davidoff Flagship Store. Plans are for the “Davidoff of Geneva – since 1911 flagship store to located in the River Oaks district – located inside the Houston loop. The store, […]
Montecristo Grupo de Maestros Private Batch by Altadis USA The Montecristo Grupo de Maestros Private Batch is a new limited edition cigar that has recently been introduced by Altadis USA. The cigar is meant to pay homage to Altadis’ famed Grupo de Maestros team. If one looks at Altadis USA, they are a company that […]
Aged Selects Maduro Toro Grande Aged Selects is a brand of Nicaraguan made cigars that provide cigar enthusiasts with a premium long filler cigar at a low price. To accomplish this, Aged Selects sends buyers to the factories of major manufacturers to secure cigars that have been aging for some time. Once the cigars are […]
Eleven months ago, we were part of a group of online cigar media brands that launched the Cigar Media Association. This was something that we felt was needed to strengthen the relationship with online media and the cigar industry. As I have personally learned, this was an enormous undertaking and it was not one without […]
Blanco Cigars, a premium boutique cigar company based out of Clearwater, Florida has named Robbie Streitz its new Director of Sales. Streitz’s will have responsibilities for overseeing all sales activities from its United States bonded warehouse and offices. A press release was received by Cigar Coop announcing Streitz’s appointment: Robbie Streitz moved to the Tampa […]
The Cigar Industry Report is a one stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop and Stogie Geeks. It is a combination of our news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. We will also recap what happened on our Stogie Geeks show. Finally, each week we […]
Viaje Super Shot Packaging (Photo Credit: Viaje Cigars Facebook) Viaje Cigars has announced that the Viaje Super Shot, a short smoke reminiscent of a shotgun shell will be making a return for 2015. Viaje President Andre Farkas has confirmed to Cigar Coop it will be the Criollo wrapper blend that will be making the […]
Assessment Updates will be posted on this web-site to: 1) Assess “pre-review” cigars that were not given a rating or score (typically pre-release cigars); 2) Provide numeric ratings to cigars previously assessed prior to the implementation of the numeric scoring system; 3) Provide a re-assessment and re-score of a previously assessed/score cigars. Today, we re-assess […]
RoMa Craft Tobac Aquitaine Venus The Aquitaine Venus is a limited production cigar that was released by RoMa Craft Tobac as a part of their Aquitaine line. The Venus introduced what RoMa Craft has called a petit salamones vitola into both the Aquitaine and CroMagnon lines. Both Venus releases were released as shop exclusives. While […]
