The Tobacco Media Group (TMG) has announced that 14-time NBA All-Star Karl Malone will be the Keynote Speaker for the Tobacco Plus Expo 2020 (TPE 2020). Malone is best known for his Hall of Fame career with the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Lakers and is the NBA’s second all-time leading scorer. He also is […]
Joya de Nicaragua has announced a fifth installment under its Joya brand. The Joya Copper will be an exclusive offering to Cigars International This release joins the Joya Cabinet, Joya Red, Joya Black, and Joya Silver offerings. “Joya Copper is the result of what a strong partnership is all about, in this project we […]
Lost & Found the brand created by Robert Caldwell and Tony Bellatto has announced four new releases for this month. Lost & Found made its debut in 2014 under the name Impromptu Cigars. The idea behind the project was to seek out cigars that have been aging in factories and bring them back to […]
The Cigarette Store Company, owner of the Smoker Friendly retail operation, has announced it has acquired Smoker’s Outlet, a 33 store chain that does business in Missouri. Under the terms of the acquisition, Smoker Friendly will take over all of the Smoker’s Outlet cigarette, tobacco, and liquor store operations immediately. Smoker Friendly operates 102 […]
The 2019 Major League Baseball regular season has come to a close, and tonight on Special Edition we’ll recap all of the happenings as we are joined by Miguel Schoedel of Crowned Heads. We’re going to review the happenings of the 2019 Major League Baseball Season. We will look back at our Over/Unders as well […]
On October 23rd, tobacco giant Altria announced it was exploring options for Nat Sherman International, including the possibility of a sale. A part of the potential sale includes its wholesale premium cigar business as well as the lease of the company’s flagship Townhouse store in Manhattan. Today, we take a closer look at what this […]
Fratello Cigars has announced it will release a Churchill size of the Fratello Navetta and Navetta Inverso Churchill as an exclusive cigar to Virginia-based retailer Tobaccology as a store exclusive. Both cigars will be a 7 x 50 size and will be packed together in a split box featuring both blends side by side. According […]
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 […]
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]
At the opening night of Espinosa Cigars’ La Zona Palooza 2019 event, it was announced Bath, Pennsylvania-based retailer Caravan Cigar Company would be the recipient of a store exclusive cigar called “Fair Warning.” Fair Warning is one of the more unique store exclusive offerings from Espinosa as it is the company’s first barber-pole release. The […]
If one wanted to predict what cigars will end up on the leading cigar industry end of the year lists, one may want to look at what companies have provided press releases to the media. On the two lists considered to be the most influential: 25 of the 25 entries of the 2018 Halfwheel Consensus […]
2019 has seen Altadis U.S.A. continue to mark the 175th anniversary of the H. Upmann brand. Later this month, the company will release Herman’s Batch. It’s a cigar that pays homage to the founder of the H. Upmann brand. The H. Upmann has its origins back in Cuba where founder Hermann Upmann opened his first […]
