The Ditka Special Game Day Edition is the eighth blend to be released in Camacho Cigars’ Ditka line – a line of cigars that Camacho is doing in conjunction with NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka. The Special Game Day Edition release coincides with the “Big Game” being held on February 7th 2016 in Santa Clara […]
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Cigar News: Villiger Cigars North America Names Rene Castaneda President
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Late last year Villiger Cigars North America announced plans to restructure. As a part of this effort, the company announced plans to name a new company President. This week, the North American subsidiary of Villiger announced that premium cigar industry veteran Rene Castenada will be its new President. The company also announced plans to move […]
Cigar News: Ezra Zion Releases Blessed Leaf Doxology
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Ezra Zion Cigar Company has released its third blend under its Blessed Leaf brand. Today the company announced the availability of the Blessed Leaf Doxology. Doxology will be a small production run of 1,005 cigars. It will be available to consumers directly from the Ezra Zion web site. Doxology refers to a a liturgical formula of […]
Cigar Review: La Antiguedad TAA Exclusive 2015 by My Father Cigars
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Today we complete our look at the ten cigars making up the 2015 Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series with the La Antiguedad TAA Exclusive 2015 by My Father Cigars. For this installment by My Father Cigars, the company provides a version of its regular production La Antiguedad line that incorporates an Ecuadorian Habano Rosado wrapper as […]
Editor’s Corner Volume 5, Number 3: News Roundup for January 2016
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When it’s January in the cigar industry, it’s a time of the year when cigar companies start to lay out their strategies for the the calendar year. While there always seems to be a shop exclusive these days to report on, we have seen some big stories kick off the 2016 calendar year. In fact, many of these […]
Cigar News: Asylum Lobotomy to be Shop Exclusive at Famous Smoke Shop
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Add Asylum Cigars to the list of cigar manufacturers providing shop exclusive cigars to Famous Smoke Shop in Easton, Pennsylvania. Today the retailer announced it has released a new exclusive project from Asylum Cigars called the Asylum Lobotomy. Famous has indicated the cigar is now currently available for purchase. The Asylum Lobotomy is described as […]
Cigar Review: Cigar King Gold Series II by Rocky Patel
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Late in December 2015, Scottsdale Arizona-based retailer Cigar King announced a new shop exclusive project with Rocky Patel Premium Cigars. The project is called Cigar King Gold Series II. This is actually the second Gold Series release by Rocky Patel for Cigar King. In addition, there has also been a release from El Titan de Bronze released […]
Cigar News: Cattle Baron Cigars Launches
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There is a new cigar brand being made out of Phil Zanghi’s Debonaire House. The brand is called Cattle Baron Cigars and it’s being made for Bryan Mussard, a well known Cattle stockgrower out of Montana. This past week, the cigar had a launch in San Diego, California at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Convention. […]
Cigar Industry Report: Volume 5, Number 10 (1/30/16)
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The Cigar Industry Report is a one stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop and Stogie Geeks. It is a combination of our news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. We will also recap what happened on our Stogie Geeks show. Finally, each week we […]
Agile Cigar Review: Flor de las Antillas MAM-13 by My Father Cigars
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Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews use a lightweight, shorter format. These will never take the place of our comprehensive reviews. They are only used on blends we have previously assessed. This might be a blend we are re-scoring […]