Pete Johnson recently celebrated his 50th birthday and in honor of the event, he is releasing aged productions of the Noellas, Regios, and Reservas J21 offerings in the Tatuaje Seleccion de Cazador line. In a statement on social media, Johnson said, “They are normal Noellas, Regios and J21’s from our production in Miami. The branding […]
The year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of when the first AVO Limited Edition released, and this year AVO pays homage to that milestone, along with what would have been the 95th birthday of brand founder Avo Uvezian, with the AVO Improvisation 2021 release. “Avo Uvezien broke conventions as one of the first to produce […]
Jas Sum Kral (JSK) Cigars is adding a new regular production offering under its Tyrannical Buc line in the form of a barber-pole offering. Currently, the Tyrannical Buc is available in a Connecticut Broadleaf and Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade offering. The Tyrannical Buc Barberpole will combine both the Connecticut Broadleaf and Ecuadorian Shade wrappers. The cigars […]
We are getting ready for the 2021 Battle of the Bands competition. Battle of the Bands is a bracket-style March Madness tournament where Dave and Coop each pick 16 artists, seed them, place them into brackets and you decide who should move on. We will go through each round on Twitter, until there is […]
With the releasing of the “Party in a Box” for Smoke Inn’s 2021 The Great Smoke (TGS), many media people have been doing unboxing videos. Sorry to disappoint you, but we won’t be using a knife to show you opening up the mailing carton. Instead, we will be focusing on the 40 cigars included […]
On February 7, following the Super Bowl LV matchup that saw the Tampa Bay, ur friends at Smokin Tabacco hosted a post-game show to break down the Big Game. I was a guest with Matthew Tabacco, Host of Smokin Tabacco; Jonathan Carney, Vice President of La Flor Dominicana; and Mike Bellody, Owner of MLB […]
Each week, I have the opportunity to produce the news segment for KMA Talk Radio. On the Cigar Coop “blog,” we will now post replays of the shows the week following the date the show is aired. Last week Dion Giolito of Illusione Cigars was a special guest. Evan Darnell of the Red Meat Lovers […]
On February 5, 2021, Bear Duplisea and I were guests on a La Flor Dominicana podcast previewing The Big Game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs. The show was broadcast from Davidoff of Geneva in Tampa Florida and featured La Flor Dominicana Vice President of Sales Jonathan Carney, La Flor Dominicana […]
The 2020 Cigar of the Year List Season has come to a close. For episode 173, Hector Alfonso Sr. of Espinosa Cigars, Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac and John McTavish of Developing Palates are all back for an Industry Panel to recap the highs and lows of the season. This is one of our […]
On February 3, I was a guest on the Heckle & Jeckle Cigar Show. This is a show hosted by Espinosa Cigars Director of Operations Hector Alfonso Sr. and Espinosa Director of Sales, Jack Toraño. On the podcast, we previewed The Big Game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs and discussed some timely […]
Fred Vandermarliere, the owner and CEO of J. Cortès, the parent company of Oliva Cigar Company, has become an investor in Brandshopper. Brandshopper is an online retailer founded by Keith Meier and owns several sub-brands, including cigarpage.com, an online cigar retail outfit. While details of the transaction were not disclosed, Meier was said in several reports the […]
Tarazona Cigars has announced a planned line extension under the Caraballo828 Silverback Edición Limitada line known as The Benjamins will begin shipping in March. The Benjamins adds a 6 x 52 Torpedo offering into the Caraballo828 Silverback. This was a vitola that was scheduled to be released in June 2020, but due to the COVID-19 […]
