Kristoff Cigars has announced plans to attend the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. Last week, 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. Many […]
A lancero size has been a staple of many Southern Draw Cigar lines and it’s now coming to Southern Draw’s Cedrus line. At TPE 2020, the company will formally unveil the Southern Draw Cedrus Lancero – the fifth vitola to be featured in the line. The Cedrus Lancero features an Indonesian Besuki wrapper over a […]
Skip Martin and RoMa Craft Tobac have announced plans to attend the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. Last week, 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 […]
Micallef Cigars has announced it is skipping the PCA 2020 Trade Show. According to the company, the decision to skip the show was made some time ago – back on July 2 following the end of the 2019 Trade Show. According to company founder A.M. Micallef, “I’m frustrated. We’re not able to serve retail partners […]
Christian Eiroa has announced that C.L.E Cigar Company will be attending the 2020 PCA Trade Show. Eiroa acknowledged that the premium industry has had to deal with compliance costs, FDA user fees, legal, and lobbying expenses and it’s forcing companies to look at finances and spending more closely, but “As everybody knows, whenever money […]
Launching “The Blog” component on Cigar Coop has provided us new avenues to deliver content in addition to our industry-leading news and reviews. Recently our friends at Perdomo Cigars announced a series of educational videos for their YouTube channel. The first of these installments is a video with Nick Perdomo called “How to Cut, […]
Tonight, we are honored to have the Executive Director of the Premium Cigar Association, 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 challenges and […]
Santa Clara Cigars has announced it will offer an exclusive cigar from the Montecristo brand known as Montecristo Volume 1: 100 Days. It’s a cigar that pays homage to the “100 Days” chapter of the classic novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas, an inspiration for the Montecristo brand. The cigars will have […]
On December 20, 2019 President Donald Trump signed a spending bill that at a federal level included language that changes the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to age 21. The legislation that went into law gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. […]
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 Country of Origin – a category introduced for 2015. This […]
