Mombacho Cigars S.A. has reached an exclusive licensing agreement with Favilli Trading LLC, a US cigar sales, distribution, and marketing company independent of Mombacho. The new company will handle global sales and marketing of the Favilli brand and will be headed up Jared Michaeli Ingrisano, who is stepping down as Mombacho S.A.’s President at the […]
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Announcement: Prime Time Special Edition 131: The Baseball Show – 2022 Season in Review
The 2022 Major League Baseball Season is in the annuls of history. Tonight Hector Alfonso of Espinosa Cigars, Miguel Schoedel of Crowned Heads, and Rob Rasmussen of Cigar Dojo join members of the Cigar Coop Coalition Team to recap the 2022 Season. We will look back at the stories, teams, and players that highlighted the […]
Cigar Review: El Criollito Robusto (2021) by PDR Cigars
Back in 2017, PDR Cigars launched a blend known as El Criollito. Originally El Criollito was a blend developed for the Spanish market by PDR owner Abe Flores in conjunction with his distributor in Spain (Jaime de Juana), and a group of retailers from Spain. Later that year, El Criollito was added to PDR Cigars’ […]
Cigar News: West Tampa Tobacco Co. Names Stijn Elbersen Global Sales & Marketing Director
West Tampa Tobacco Co. has named Stijn Elbersen its Global Sales and Marketing Director. Elbersen also is the owner of Small Batch Traders, a company based in the Netherlands that handles international distribution for West Tampa Tobacco Co. and other premium cigar manufacturers Elbersen started his career in premium tobacco at Habaos S.A., and worked […]
Announcement: Prime Time Jukebox Episode 84: Christmas and Holiday Music – 2022 Edition
It’s that time of the year as Dave and Coop unveil their music for the Christmas Season for 2022. It will be a mix of classics and contemporary that will help you get into the seasonal spirit. Plus Dave and Coop discuss Dolly Parton’s big night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and […]
Prime Time Jukebox Episode 83: Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs Part 9: 100 to 51
On Episode 83 of Prime Time Jukebox, we continue our recap of the Rolling Stone’s recent refresh of their Top 500 songs of all time. This segment will cover songs 100 to 51 and Dave and Coop will go through some of their favorites that made the list, and assess how fairly these favorites were […]
Prime Time Jukebox Episode 82: The Madonna Show
On Prime Time Jukebox Episode 82, Dave and Coop discuss the career of Madonna. We will cove beginnings on the scene at Danceteria in New York to becoming one of the biggest pop musician starts of all time – and discuss all of the music in between. Plus the Philadelphia Phillies have discovered a unlikely […]
Prime Time Jukebox Episode 81: Alphabet Series #4 – The Letter ‘D’ & ‘You Got to Hear This’ Feedback
On Prime Time Jukebox Episode 81, it’s our fourth nstallment of “The Alphabet Series” – a series of shows where we cover songs devoted to a particular letter. Today we go with the letter “D”. Our goal with this show is to use this opportunity cover a number of genres, bands, deep cuts, decades and records. […]
Cigar News: Lampert Cigars Updates Packaging on Don Patron
Lampert Cigars has updated the packaging on its Don Patron line. The company says while the packaging has changed, the blend and cigar ring remain the same. The Don Patron comes in one size – a 6 x 52. As for the blend, it features an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over a three-year aged Ecuadorian […]
Cigar Review: Gurkha Nicaragua Series TAA Exclusive
In 2021, Gurkha Cigars would release its second exclusive cigar to the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA). The cigar would be a perfecto-shaped line extension to the Gurkha Nicaragua Series. The Gurkha Nicaragua Series would make its debut in 2019. It would be one of the first projects that Gurkha worked on with Aganorsa Leaf’s […]