Michael Giannini and Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. are once again joining forces. Today Ventura Cigar Company announced the pair will collaborate on Archetype Chapter 3. Archetype Chapter 3 is a pair of blends that Ventura will launch at the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show. Giannini and Perez-Carrillo have known each other for two decades. Giannini worked for […]
Royal Agio Cigars USA has announced its second installment in its Balmoral Serie Signaturas series. Balmoral Serie Signaturas is a collaboration line launched by Royal Agio Cigars in 2018. The first release was a collaboration between Royal Agio CEO Boris Wintermans and Ernesto Perez-Carrillo called the Balmoral Serie Signaturas Dueto. This time, Wintermans is teaming up with […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Drew Estate’s will introduce the Tabak Especial Gordito. This will add a 6 x 60 vitola to the Tabak Especial Dulce (Connecticut Shade) and Tabak Especia Negra (Maduro) lines. In a press release, Jonathan Drew President and Founder of Drew Estate commented, “These 60 ring Tabaks are a must […]
With 2019 marking 175 years of the H. Upmann brand, Altadis U.S.A. has announced a special commemorative limited cigar appropriately called the H. Upmann 175th Anniversary. The cigar will make its debut at the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show in Las Vegas. This cigar has its origins back in Cuba. German banker Herman Upmann had moved […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Casa Cuevas Cigars will release Cuevas Reserva. It’s a brand that originally had a limited release in the early 2000s. Cuevas Reserva was released by Luis Cuevas Sr. At the time, he faced a huge dilemma- either invest in the time and resources needed to introduce his own brand […]
Smoke Inn Cigars has announced its fourteenth installment of its MicroBlend Series. This time the South Florida retailer has announced it is once again teaming up with Espinosa Cigars to release the 601 La Bomba Bunker Buster FUBAR. It’s a cigar that takes the original Bunker Buster blend released as a part of the MicroBlend […]
La Barba’s Ricochet line is expanding. At the 2019 IPCPE Trade Show, the company will release the La Barba Crü Mexi-Sol – a cigar that will introduce a Mexican Sungrown wrapper offering under the Ricochet line. The “crü Mexi-Sol” is a play on the Mexican Sungrown wrapper. The blend also features an Indonesian binder and […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the period to comment on the agency’s draft guidance around Substantial Equivalence (SE) by 30 days. The deadline to submit comments around the Substantial Equivalence Rules is now July 17, 2019. Substantial Equivalence marks a pathway where many cigar companies can keep products introduced after February […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Drew Estate will unveil the Undercrown Dogma to Drew Diplomat retailers. As a part of the release, it will include a new packaging design featuring blue-colors soft bundles and corresponding sales trays. The Dogma was first released in 2014 as a small batch limited production sold initially through Smoke […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Aganorsa Leaf will introduce three unique giant perfecto sizes under its JFR Lunatic line collectively known as Lunatic Loco. The cigars will be highlighted by Aganorsa’s Leaf proprietary Shade Grown Corojo Maduro wrapper grown on its Aganorsa Farms in Jalapa, Nicaragua. The new Lunatic Loco sizes include perfectos measuring: 4 […]
