CAO Last Stick Standing – Blend A In this assessment, we take a look at a second cigar from CAO’s Last Stick Standing collection – the CAO Last Stick Standing (LSS) “A”. The Last Stick Standing Collection is a concept from CAO’ that gives consumers a chance to sample three potential blends and then vote […]
Press Release: Smoke Inn’s Fourth Installment of Their Microblend Series, Solaris By Arturo Fuente, To Be Released This Month
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Smoke Inn’s Fourth Installment of Their Microblend Series, Solaris By Arturo Fuente, To Be Released This Month. West Palm Beach, FL – May 3,2012 – Release Date Announced for Solaris Cigars by Arturo Fuente, made exclusively for Smoke Inn’s Microbend (*)Series. In late 2010 Smoke Inn Cigars released the Tatuaje Anarchy Cigar […]
Cigar Review: Avo 80th (Avo LE 2006)
Avo 80th (Avo Limited Edition 2006) For those who are cigar fans of Avo Uvezian Cigars, when the month of March has comes around, they have been able to count on an annual limited production cigar from Avo Cigars. The series began back in 2001 with March being selected for the annual release to coincide […]
Press Release: Toraño Family Cigar Company to Release Latest in the Master Line: The Master Maduro
TORAÑO FAMILY CIGAR COMPANY TO RELEASE THE LATEST IN THE MASTER LINE: THE MASTER MADURO (Miami, FL) May 2, 2012– The Torano Family Cigar Company is proud to announce the release of a new chapter in the Master story: The Master Maduro. The Master line of cigars has been a smashing success with the launch […]
Cigar Review: CAO Last Stick Standing (LSS): C
CAO Last Stick Standing – Blend C Following the acquisition of CAO Cigars by General Cigar company, many CAO cigar enthusiasts were not sure where the brand was heading. Shortly after, the acquisition Team La Gloria Cubana’s Rick Rodriguez moved over to the CAO Brand, and Ed McKenna was hired as a Senior Brand Manager. […]
Cigar Preview: Aging Room Quattro and Aging Room Haváo
Rafael Nodal, owner of Aging Room Cigars’ brand of Boutique Blends (Oliveros) has revealed two new additions to the line as reported in the May 1st Cigar Insider. The Aging Room Quattro will be a box-press cigar featuring a nine year old Indonesian wrapper from 2003. While there were no specifics mentioned on the binder […]
Editor’s Corner: Volume 1, Number 5: Grass Roots
This past month, the most important petition in the history of the cigar industry in the United States was launched. The Cigar Rights of America (CRA) and International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR)) launched a petition directed toward the Obama Administration asking for the exemption of premium cigars from FDA regulation. The […]
Cigar Pre-Review: Romeo by Romeo y Julieta
Romeo by Romeo y Juliet Romeo y Julieta is a line of cigars that is well-known to most cigar enthusiasts. It is right up there as far as being one of the best selling brands of cigars in the world. At the same time, with the rise of boutique blends, Romeo y Julieta cigars […]
Cigar Review: Partagas 1845 Heritage Rewrapped
Partagas 1845 Hertiage Rewrapped Up until this month, General Cigar Company’s product releases for 2012 have focused around line extensions (as well as the annual release of the Punch Rare Corojo series). However last month General announced that a new blend was being added to the Partagas brand. This is significant because this is the […]
Press Release: Butthead’s Tobacco Emporium Introduces Live Web Streaming Events; Bring Great B&M Experience to the Online World
Butthead’s Tobacco Emporium Introduces Live Web Streaming Events Bring Great B&M Experience to the Online World Danbury, Connecticut – Butthead’s Tobacco Emporium in Danbury, Connecticut is introducing live event streaming. At their weekly in-store events a live stream will take place on the Butthead’s Tobacco Emporium Website and consumers can call up and order. All […]