Hooten Young Cigars has announced it will attend its first Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show in July. While Hooten Young Cigars have been in business for five years, this year has seen company founders Norm Hooten and Tim Young put an ambitious plan in place for 2023. Recently the company has expanded into a […]
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Cigar News: Quesada Cigars Names Hector Becerra National Sales Manager for U.S. Market
Quesada Cigars has named Hector Becerra as their U.S. National Sales Manager for S.A.G Imports, the company’s distribution arm. Over the past year, Becerra had served as the territory manager for Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, and New Mexico. “The Quesada family has been a part of the tobacco industry for over a century, I’m fortunate to […]
Cigar Review: Aganorsa Leaf Guardian of the Farm Cerberus Gran Robusto
Aganorsa Leaf has been well-known as one of the premier growers of tobacco in not only Nicaragua but worldwide. The company has been best known for its Corojo, Criollo, and Habano tobaccos and has developed many blends using these tobaccos for itself as well as for many other cigar companies. While many of these blends […]
Cigar Industry Report: Edition 532 (4/8/23)
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]
Cigar Review: Casa Cuevas Sangre Nueva Double Perfecto
At the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, Casa Cuevas Cigars would introduce its eighth regular production line, Sangre Nueva. Sangre Nueva means “New Blood” and it was an appropriate name. This was a cigar line that was spearheaded by Alec Cuevas, who now is the company’s Director of Brand Development. Alec would become […]
Announcement: Prime Time Episode 262: Media Panel #14
This week it’s our 14th Media Panel show – and we are bringing in Eric Guttormson of Cigar Dojo and John McTavish of Developing Palates to participate. Since this is a media panel, we won’t just hit industry topics, but we will hit a bunch of stuff that affects the media. Plus we will have […]
Cigar News: Hooten Young Names Allison Trainer Vice President of Sales
Hooten Young Cigars has named Allison Trainer as its Vice President of Sales Tobacco Division and Consulting. Hooten Young is a veteran-owned American Whiskey and Cigar Company. The company created its whiskey and cigars as a tribute to those who served in the Armed Forces. Trainer was most recently the Brand Manager for Vintage Rock-A-Feller […]
Cigar News: Punch Turns to Eiroa Family for Punch Golden Era
Scandinavian Tobacco Group has announced a new regular production offering known as the Punch Golden Era. It’s a cigar that highlights Corojo tobacco. The tobacco in the cigar comes from the Eiroa family’s JRE Tobacco Farm and is rolled at JRE’s Fabrica de Puros Aladino SA in Honduras. The name Golden Era highlights the fact […]
Cigar Review: Crowned Heads Four Kicks Mule Kick Limited Edition 2022
In 2022, Crowned Heads released the Four Kicks Mule Kick Limited Edition 2022 (LE 2022). If you go back into the history of Crowned Heads, the Mule Kick is the oldest limited edition line in the company’s portfolio going back to 2012. It was in that year that there was a batch of Ecuadorian Habano […]
Cigar News: Patina Anniversary Cigar Heading to Retailers
Patina Cigars has announced it will start shipping its Patina Anniversary cigar beginning the week of April 10. This is Patina’s first cigar to use Connecticut Broadleaf and it’s also the first limited edition cigar from Patina. “Three main factors went into shaping the Patina Anniversary. First, was to use a wrapper leaf which we […]