At the end of 2015, Villiger North America, the U.S. operation of global tobacco giant Villiger Sons Limited, reached a crossroad. For several years, Villiger North America had been tasked to make an impact in the premium handmade cigar market. The effort was proving not to be profitable and was disconnected with its customers. Villiger had […]
In October 2017, Viaje Cigar unveiled a release known as the Viaje GP 10.31. Viaje founder Andre Farkas is well-known for revolutionizing the small batch model in the cigar industry, but there are two other things he is known for. The first is building releases around a particular theme, and the second is creating releases that […]
The Casa Cuevas Connecticut is one of three blends owned by Casa Cuevas Cigars. Casa Cuevas Cigars is the brand owned by the father and son team of Luis Cuevas Sr. and his son Luis Cuevas Jr. The Cuevas family are not newcomers to the cigar industry. The Cuevas family has been involved in the […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we 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 or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
At the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, La Palina Cigars introduced the La Palina Nicaragua line. As the name indicates, it is a line being produced in Nicaragua. When Bill Paley first resurrected the La Palina brand back in 2010, he went to the Graycliff factory in the Bahamas to produce his first line, the La Palina […]
Just prior to the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust announced it was putting into widespread release the second installment of its Muestra de Saka series, the Muestra de Saka Nacatamale. The Muestra de Saka line is a limited production line where it follows a model of “one size, one blend”. Dunbarton Tobacco […]
As 2017 came to a close, Altadis U.S.A. announced a pair of projects in its Montecristo brand. One of the lines would be the Montecristo Ciudad de Musica, a cigar done in collaboration with Crowned Heads produced at Ernesto Perez-Carrillo’s Tabacalera La Alianza. The second is a cigar done in conjunction with the Plasencias at their […]
The Alec Bradley Black Market Illicit TAA Exclusive is a part of several new exclusive releases that have been made available to the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) by several manufacturers for 2017. It is the second time Alec Bradley has done an exclusive release for the TAA. Back in 2013, Alec Bradley unveiled an […]
In 2017, Davidoff Cigars released two limited extensions to its Davidoff Discovery Pillar (Black) Label series. The first was a series of 6 x 60 line extensions, and the second was a culebra offering featuring three of the Discovery Pillar blends. These blends included Davidoff Nicaragua, Davidoff Escurio, and Davidoff Yamasá blends. A culebra is a group […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Cornelius & Anthony Cigars unveiled two new cigars that essentially would round out the company’s portfolio. One cigar was the Cornelius & Anthony Aerial – which became Cornelius & Anthony’s first Connecticut Shade cigar. The second cigar was Cornelius & Anthony Señor Esugars – the company’s first Maduro offering. With Señor Esugars, […]
