With the upcoming Chinese New Year, General Cigar Company has released its fourth annual limited edition cigar to commemorate the occasion, the Punch Fu Manchu. “Punch is keeping its Chinese New Year tradition alive. For the 2022 release, we went old school, replicating a maniacal kung fu master’s white hair and long goatee with a […]
With Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 2022 now in the annals of history, Tobacco Media Group (TMG) has announced TPE 2023 will take place from February 22 to 24 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The timing of TPE 2023 will put the show into one of the busiest times of the cigar industry. Late February typically is […]
Late last year Tabacalera SLU released the fifth installment of its annual VegaFina Chinese Zodiac, the VegaFina Year of the Tiger. Previously these releases were only made available outside the U.S. market, but at Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) 2022, Altadis USA showcased the VegaFina Year of the Tiger. It’s the first of the VegaFina Chinese […]
Drew Estate announced its sixteenth installment of its Liga Privada Unico Series, the Year of the Tiger. It marks the third year in a row there has been a Unico Serie release devoted to the Chinese New Year (the others being Year of the Rat and Year of the Ox). The Year of the Tiger […]
East Park Cigars has announced its inaugural product offerings. The company is a partnership between Emmanuel Peña, who comes from the beverage industry, and Claudio Sanchez, who comes from e-commerce and marketing. The three lines El Borbón, El Escocés, and El Coñac were developed by the duo to be the “right blend to pair with […]
At the Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE 22) in Las Vegas, Nevada, Villiger Cigars showed off a new iteration of its Villiger La Libertad brand. La Libertad not only featured a new look, but also had a new blend. Production for the new La Libertad comes from Villiger de Nicaragua, the company’s own factory located in […]
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 […]
General Cigar Company has announced the second installment of its limited-edition CAO Arcana Series, the CAO Arcana Firewalker. The CAO Arcana Series highlights old-world processing methods The Firewalker was inspired by an aging method known as Chincagre. In this case, this aging method was applied to the Nicaraguan-grown filler tobacco. General Cigar describes this method […]
This past week Viaje Cigars has announced a follow-up to 2020’s Amuse Bouche small batch release, the Amuse-Bouche II. Like the original Amuse Bouche, Amuse Bouche II is being released under the White Label Project (WLP) Series) Amuse-Bouche is a French term for a small appetizer. In this case, Amuse Bouche is a petit cigar […]
About ten years ago, Esteban Carreras was an “under the radar” brand and was truly one of the best kept secrets in the cigar world. Today, the company is much better known than it was a decade ago, and much of that can be attributed to a line introduced known as Chupa Cabra. Chupa Cabra […]
