The year 2019 is a big one for La Flor Dominicana. It marks 25 years since Litto and Ines Gomez first entered the cigar business. When Litto and Ines entered the industry, they originally founded a company called Los Libertadores. That company would eventually become La Flor Dominicana. As a result, this year the theme […]
The year 2019 marked the fourth IPCPR Trade Show for Bryan Mussard and Cattle Baron Cigars. Mussard is a well-known figure in the cattle industry who served as the President of the Montana Stockgrowers Association. Back in 2016, he decided to venture into the cigar business with his own line of cigars. To produce his […]
2019 would mark the return to the IPCPR Trade Show for Sebastien Decoppet and Cavalier Genève Cigars. After exhibiting at the IPCPR Trade Show the previous two years, Cavalier Genève took 2018 off. At the time, Decoppet was reorganizing his U.S. distribution forming a new company Cavalier Premium Cigars USA LLC. It’s known in the […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Selected Tobacco launched two new sizes under its Byron Serie Siglo XX line, the Byron Serie Siglo XX Venecianos and the Byron Serie Siglo XX Mesolongis .This brings the total number of vitolas offered in the Byron Serie XX line to four. The Venecianos is a 6 1/2 x […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, La Flor Dominicana introduced a line extension to its La Volcada line in the form of a 4 1/4 x 32 Petite. The La Flor Dominicana Petite will be packaged in six-count tins. The blend joins the Churchill size and features a San Andres Mexican wrapper over an Ecuadorian […]
For the fifth year in a row, we are providing a full “Post-Game Report” assessing the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Convention and Trade Show. In this report, we talk more about the show itself and give our thoughts on the impacts to the cigar industry. This year we once again did four daily […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Selected Tobacco launched two new sizes under its Atabey line, the Atabey Idolos and Atabey Sabios. This brings the total number of vitolas offered in the Atabey line to eleven. Atabey Idolos introduces a 4 x 55 vitola into the Atabey line while Sabios introduces a Robusto-sized 5 […]
For the past few years, Reiner Lorenzo and HVC Cigars had been one of the best-kept secrets in the cigar industry. However, following the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, the secret seemed to get out and HVC began to make much more of a national presence. Coming into the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Lorenzo and HVC […]
Prior to the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis U.S.A. announced it was releasing a cigar to celebrate 50 years of the Tabacalera de Garcia family under the Montecristo brand known as Cincuenta. At the Trade Show itself, the Montecristo Cincuenta was center stage. To commemorate the occasion, Altadis turned to Elle Bleu to create a […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, General Cigar Company introduced a fourth blend to its handmade value-priced Odyssey line. This one is a sweet tipped version and its called the Odyssey Sweet Tip. As the name indicates the Odyssey Sweet Tip features a sweetened cap. The blend itself utilizes a Nicaraguan Habano wrapper over a […]
