The documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain has been released. Director Morgan Neville assembled a playlist of music he found from Bourdain’s books, interviews, social media, and more. Tonight, we take a look at that music and how it ties back to the life and times of the late Anthony Bourdain. We’ll be joined […]
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 […]
The Gurkha Revenant, a two-blend line launched at the 2021 Premium Cigar Association Trade Show, is now shipping to retailers. These are the first two cigars for Gurkha to come out of Tabacalera El Artista in the Dominican Republic. The Revenant Corojo uses a Corojo wrapper over Cameroon binder and fillers from Nicaragua, Dominican Criollo […]
Frontier Brands, the owner and manufacturer of Frontier Cigars, has announced it has added two new offerings into its portfolio, Frontier Cigarillos and Frontier XL. These two new offerings join the current Frontier Cheroots offering. Frontier Cigarillos are an all-natural handmade product that utilizes tobaccos from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic and are finished with […]
Carolina Blue Cigars, LLC has announced it has reached a distribution agreement with Illusione Cigars. In a press release, Christopher Moore, owner of Carolina Blue Cigars, explained how the wheels were put in motion: “I found myself in the middle of [a] mass back and forth email when the respondents should have been replying to […]
Prior to the 2021 Premium Cigar Association Trade Show, there was a company that had signed on a sponsor of the show that was a virtual unknown to the U.S. market, Supreme Tobacco Haiti. As the name indicates, this is a company based out of Haiti. Supreme Tobacco Haiti would use the PCA Trade Show […]
Back in 1971, Jack Rothman opened his first cigar store in New York City. That cigar store would grow and become JR Cigar. A year after opening his first store, Jack’s son Lew Rothman was approached by a customer asking if he could have cigars mailed back to his home state, leading to the […]
One of the first-time exhibitors at the 2021 Premium Cigar Association Trade Show was Emperors Cut Cigars. The company was one of nine cigar companies that exhibited in the Sutliff Tobacco pipe booth. Over the past 18 months, Sutliff has quietly been bringing on smaller cigar companies to handle its distribution. Emperors Cut was probably […]
Tonight we celebrate our 200th Episode of the Prime Time Show – and we welcome in the CEO of Oliva Cigar Company, Cory Bappert. Cory’s got an interesting journey as he moved into the CEO role for one of the iconic premium cigar brands in the industry and we’ll talk to him about that. Plus […]
In 2019, Drew Estate announced a new addition to its Liga Privada Unico Serie called Pancetta. This cigar would be an exclusive offering to two retailers in the Mid-Atlantic region: Wooden Indian Tobacco Shop in Havertown, PA, and Barrister Cigars in Union, NJ. These are two retailers that go back to the early days of […]
