Miami Cigar and Company founder Nestor Miranda‘s favorite size is known to be a lancero, and there is a limited edition offering with his name on it called the Nestor Miranda Private Reserve. The cigar is now heading to retailers nationwide. The cigar features a Dominican Corojo wrapper over Nicaraguan Criollo and a combination of Dominican, […]
Protocol Cigars has announced a new limited release known as the Protocol J Train. The Protocol J Train will be a cigar done in collaboration for the Johnny Smokes Uncut Facebook group. The cigar will be launched on March 13, 2021 and will be sold exclusively through Caravan Cigar Company in Bath, Pennsylvania. The J […]
Amendola Family Cigar Company has announced that Illusione Cigars will now handle its U.S. distribution. “I am grateful every day to my grandparents who arrived in the United States from Italy, penniless, and created a better life for us. Amendola cigars was created in honor of them and my Italian heritage. Together with my business […]
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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations are out – and they are as controversial as always. Tonight, we will be joined by Seth “Big Tuna” Geise and break down the nominations – and make our cases for who should be in. Plus on the previous Prime Time Jukebox, Dave and Coop drafted […]
In 2020, Rocky Patel Premium Cigars announced the third incarnation of the Rocky Patel Winter Collection. The story of the Winter Collection dates back to 2008 when Rocky Patel launched a series of limited edition cigars to coincide with each of the four seasons. This series included the Spring Collection, Summer Collection, Autumn Collection, and […]
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. On February 13th, Tom Lazuka of Asylum Cigars was a special guest. Catch the full show below (or click […]
Jason Lois comes over to the Thursday side of the Prime Time Show for Episode 175. He is now the CEO Veritas Cigars and he is shaking things up. We’ll catch up with Jason and find out all of the exciting happenings at Veritas Cigars. Since Jason is from Kentucky, we’ll talk Kentucky things in […]
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 a […]
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 […]
During the Summer of ’20, HVC Cigars unveiled a new regular production offering known as Hot Cake. Whether the name is a tribute to the popular breakfast food, or simply because the cigar will “sell like hot cakes” is a bit unclear. What we do know is that this is not the first time HVC […]
The Tobacco Plus Expo 21 (TPE 21) will go on as scheduled. Today Tobacco Media Group (TMG), the division of Kretek International which handles the trade show, confirmed that TPE21 will go on as scheduled from May 12-14. The announcement was made through TMG’s media publication, Tobacco Business. TMG has said that as a result […]
