At the 2021 PCA trade show, Blackbird Cigar Company introduced the Blackbird Macaw. It’s the first limited edition cigar for Blackbird Cigar. The project is also unique in that the packaging comes with a QR Code that launches a fun 3-D interactive experience. As for the cigar, let’s take a closer look at this experience […]
Welcome to our first ever Roundtable for The Smoking Syndicate. The Roundtable will be a new format where we will be doing a live group review of a particular cigar and will also have a shortened video posted later on our YouTube account. The Roundtable could feature any one of us along with guests, so […]
At the 2021 PCA trade show, Aganorsa Leaf introduced the 4th vitola in their limited edition Supreme Leaf line, a torpedo. The previous sizes, robusto, toro, and corona gorda, have been well received and sold out quickly. The blend is being kept as a secret as they only say it has a majority of Corojo […]
JRE Tobacco added a fifth line to the Aladino family of cigars with the Cameroon earlier this year. The line was originally scheduled to be released during the 2020 PCA trade show, but due to COVID, the launch was pushed back to the spring of this year. The line was released in 3 sizes, robusto, […]
Camacho has long been know as one of the preeminent cigar factories and tobacco growers in Honduras. To celebrate the great work done at the Camacho cigar factory, Diademas Cigars de Honduras SA, Camacho has released a new cigar line called the Factory Unleashed. This cigar comes in 100-count rustic wooden crates for their retail […]
At the end of 2020, CAO re-released the Vision with a few tweaks. The original cigar, released before CAO’s acquisition by the Scandinavian Tobacco Group, was a Dominican blend cigar in an interesting box that was fitted with LED lighting that glowed blue when you opened the lid. The new CAO Vision is also a […]
My Father Cigars bought the Fonseca brand from Quesada Cigars in 2019, which had been making the iconic brand in the Dominican Republic since 1974. Quesada had been using a mixture of tobaccos from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States for their Fonseca cigars, but the new Fonseca from My Father is using […]
Arturo Fuente released the Rare Pink in November 2020 to benefit breast cancer awareness. Liana Fuente created this project to honor her grandmother and aunt who both tragically lost their lives to breast cancer. She and her father decided to donate $13 from the sale of Rare Pink boxes, of which only 500 were made, […]
