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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The concept of our Cigar Draft is simple. We take a look at some of the new cigars that are in the pipeline. If all of these new cigars were released at once, which ones would be the first to reach for? A lot of variables play into this – the reputation of the company/blender, […]
Altadis USA is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the latest act in this enduring love story – ROMEO by Romeo y Julieta. A Romeo y Julieta cigar unlike any to come before! Ever since 1875, cigar aficionados have been passionate about Romeo y Julieta.As one of the premium cigar world’s best-known and most […]
April 24, 2012 COUNTERFEIT COHIBA CIGARS SEIZED IN MIAMI Richmond, VA— General Cigar announces that a team of special agents from the Miami Office of the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco conducted raids yesterday resulting in the seizure of over 10,000 counterfeit COHIBA® cigars with an estimated retail value of more than $200,000. […]
Larry Amoruso (4th from left) – flanked by the military We don’t promote a lot of events on this web-site anymore, but we do get some press releases or emails and from time to time will still do so. However, when this email came to me today, it was without question I was going to […]
My Father Commemorative 911 by Jaime Garcia Blend 343 10th Anniversary Oscuro Last month, we explored the My Father Commemorative 911 by Jaime Garcia Blend 343 10th Anniversary Rosado. This is one of two retail-exclusive cigars that are packaged together made by My Father Cigars exclusively for Casa de Montecristo in Countryside, Illinois. The other […]
Assessment Updates will be posted on this web-site to: 1) Assess “pre-review” cigars that were not given a rating or score (typically pre-release cigars); 2) Provide numeric ratings to cigars previously assessed prior to the implementation of the numeric scoring system; 3) Provide a re-assessment and re-score of a previously assessed/score cigars. Today, we assign […]
