William Cooper is a Owner of Indian Trail Media LLC, and the founder of the Cigar Coop brand, the cigar industry's true 365 a year periodical. He is also the host of the Cigar Coop Prime Time Show, Cigar Coop Prime Time Special Edition, and Prime Time Jukebox.
Cabaiguan WCD 120 Redux – exclusive to W.Curtis Draper Back in January, W. Curtis Draper, a cigar retailer in the Washington DC/Bethesda, Maryland area announced a series of cigars to commemorate their 125th anniversary of being in business. This series would consist of four retail exclusive cigars by leading cigar manufacturers. The first of that […]
La Flor Dominicana Double Claro 2011 saw the releases of two cigars with the candela wrapper by Illusione and Viaje. This sparked some debate as to what was the better blend (this website had the Viaje WLP Candela the #28 cigar for 2011). While I don’t think the use of candela wrapper was enough to […]
NEW PRODUCT RELEASE Urbano Cigars, Inc. Tampa, Florida Phone: 813-967-7826 Fax: 813-994-1543 E-mail: Matt@UrbanoCigars.com Contact: Matt Urbano FOR RELEASE: February 15, 2012 New Urbano Economy Bundles … hand-made premium cigars from 100% long-filler tobacco, available in 5 shapes and 5wrappers New Urbano Economy Bundles: Long-Filler, Hand-Made Premium Cigars “For Everyday Guys” “With five wrappers and […]
The following product was assessed on this web-site back on 12/29/2011. The cigar we smoked was made available to the store where it was purchased. This press release marks the official announcement of this cigar. NEW PRODUCT RELEASE 7-20-4 Cigars/Vintage Cigar Distributors 128 Rockingham Rd. Londonderry, NH 03053 Phone: 603-965-4493 E-mail: kurt@7-20-4.com Contact: Kurt Kendall […]
Gran Habano STK Zulu Zulu Ecuadorian Connecticut Many times a cigar maker will make a personal blend for his private collection. This has been seen with Drew Estate’s Steve Saka with Liga Privada as well as Tatuaje’s Pete Johnson with the Black Label. It is also the case for Gran Habano’s George Rico with 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. Today, we assign numeric ratings to two previously assessed cigars- Ashton’s San Cristobal […]
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. Today, we assign numeric ratings to two previously assessed cigars that are distributed […]
Once again, Avo Cigars is releasing its annual limited edition cigar to coincide with brand ambassador Avo Uvezian’s 86th birthday. Like last year’s cigar, Avo’s birthday will factor in the name. With Uvezian’s birthday on March 22nd, a series of birthday celebration events have been announced being sponsored by select Avo retailers. The new cigar […]
Room 101 LTD OSOK When Matt Booth and Camacho Cigars launched the Room 101 Cigars line in 2009, it was one of the most highly anticipated new lines by the cigar industry. While there were some good cigars done by Room 101, it was with the 2011 launch of the Room 101 Namakubi and the […]
VegaFina Sumum Edicion Especial 2010 With all of the new cigars that come out every year, it is often easy to pick out which ones are going to be among the best of the best. When we previewed a few weeks ago that the VegaFina Sumum Edicion Especial 2010 was headed to the U.S. market, I didn’t feel […]