In 2020, J.C. Newman Cigar Company is celebrating its 125th anniversary in business, but today we look at a cigar from a brand that was created for the company’s 110th anniversary, the Diamond Crown Maximus. It was back in 1996 when J.C. Newman launched the Diamond Crown brand for its 100th anniversary. Ten years later, […]
In 2013, Espinosa Cigars launched an extension of its 601 La Bomba line known as the Warhead. The Warhead took the 601 La Bomba concept and was a blend based on the original 601 La Bomba, replacing the Nicaraguan wrapper with a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper and box pressing the cigar. The 601 La Bomba Warhead […]
Perdomo Cigars is not a company that is known to do new releases every year. However at the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Perdomo Cigars put a new spin on an older favorite. It was at that trade show where the Perdomo Estate Selección Vintage (ESV) was showcased, but for the first time the ESV was […]
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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
Back in 2017, Rafael Nodal joined the Tabacalera USA team as a part of strategic alliance with his company Boutique Blends. In his role at Tabacalera USA, Nodal would take on the role of Director of Product Capability and would oversee the development of many brands seen in the Tabacalera USA portfolio. Nodal would also […]
Litto and Ines Gomez entered the cigar industry and founded a company called Los Libertadores – which would eventually be rebranded La Flor Dominicana. 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of that milestone, and this year La Flor Dominicana has a special release, the La Flor Dominicana 25th Anniversary. It’s not the first time La Flor […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, AJ Fernandez showcased his Días de Gloria line. Días de Gloria is a line that had a soft-launch in 2016. At the time regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were set to hit on August 8th, 2016 that would require any products introduced after the deadline […]
Back in 2018, Alec and Bradley Rubin, the sons of Alec Bradley founder Alan Rubin launched their own label as a part of the Alec Bradley portfolio appropriately titled Alec & Bradley. When the Rubin brothers informed Alan they wanted to take the next step in developing a brand, Alan agreed to do it. There […]
2019 was a big year for Altadis USA. The company had two brands celebrating major milestones as H. Upmann was celebrating its 175th Anniversary, and Trinidad was celebrating its 50th anniversary. Both milestones saw signature releases with the H. Upmann 175th Anniversary and the Trinidad Espiritu Series No. 1. There was another milestone Altadis USA was celebrating and […]
When 2017 kicked off, it was a big year of change for Matt Booth and Room101 Cigars. At the time, Booth had split his production and distribution from Davidoff and was planning on taking a hiatus from the premium cigar industry. A few months later, as the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show came around, Matt Booth […]
