Back in December, 2011, the Orange Bowl made a decision to force Camacho Cigars’ out as a game sponsor.  This decision was because of the Orange Bowl committee and NCAA bowing pressure by three U.S. Senators.  The cigar industry was outraged, and many boycotted the game, including yours truly.  Fast forward almost three months later […]

While we have not hit the first day of spring yet, the Spring 2012 release cycle in the cigar industry kicked off very strong.   It’s going to be hard to top 2011 and time will tell if 2012 will be a repeat or not. February saw highly touted releases of Room 101’s LTD OSOK, La […]

This past month, we introduced several obvious changes and some less obvious changes to the content on Cigar Coop.  We started out with the roll-out of our numerical scoring system and are keeping a quick reference page for these scores.  This was a direct response to feedback we had from retailers and consumers.  We also […]

While the 2012 cigar year began the day after Thanksgiving for me, the calendar year marks a change to this web-site.  The change won’t be in layout – just yet, but more of a change of approach.  Over the past year, I have gotten a lot of wonderful feedback stating “I really like your blog”.   […]