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 […]
The Alec Bradley Project 40 Maduro, a cigar announced in October as the second installment of the company’s Experimental Series, is now heading to retailers. “When Alec Bradley announced the release of Project 40 Maduro in October, we were overwhelmed by the positive responses we received from enthusiasts, tobacconists and the media,” said Alec […]
Miami Cigar & Company has announced it will undergo a major restructuring in its business model effective January 1st, 2021. The changes will involve a major reduction to the company’s field sales staff. Cigar Coop has learned that several sales representatives have already been notified of the changes and have been offered a severance package. […]
J.C. Newman Cigar Company has announced a major revamping of its Perla Del Mar band. The revamping includes an updated blend and new packaging to the Perla Del Mar Maduro and Perla Del Mar Connecticut Shade blends. On top of that, a new third installment, the Perla Del Mar Corojo, has been announced. The story […]
J.C. Newman has recently made available some J.C. Newman Brick House Culebra Muestra sets to Cigar Coop to use as a contest. Instead of just giving them away individually, we have once again assembled an Ultimate Giveaway! This includes some more fun items from the Cigar Coop Battle of the Bands. The Grand Prize includes […]
In 2020, Cigar Coop is unveiling some new performance rating categories and today we are unveiling two: Impacts of Sponsored Cigars on Scoring and Impacts of Samples Used on Scoring. For as long as I have been involved with cigar media, the two things always thrown up to me are “sponsors compromise ratings” and “free […]
Early in 2020, Viaje released a cigar known as the Viaje Zombie Farmhand Andre. If you have followed Viaje Cigars for the past decade, you will know that Viaje Cigars’ founder Andre Farkas creates themes, narratives, and storylines among his releases. Viaje Zombie Farmhead Andre ties two of these concepts together – Viaje’s Thanksgiving themed […]
Seasonal/holiday releases are not a new concept for the cigar industry, but when it comes to Thanksgiving, Viaje Cigars is the company that blazed the trail. Viaje’s Thanksgiving releases trace back to 2011 when it released its first Viaje Stuffed Turkey Cigar. The concept for a Thanksgiving cigar was originally suggested by the Stogie Review […]
One of Room101’s most popular lines is making a return. Last week, Room101 owner Matt Booth announced The Big Payback Connecticut would be making a return to his portfolio. The line features a new blend and a new factory Room101 is working with. Information of the release was first reported by Cigar Aficionado. The Big […]
The concept of pairings with spirits and cigars seems to have been around forever. As long there have been spirit/cigar pairings, there are debates on where the pair selected complements/enhances each other as well as where pairings, in general, are a good thing. In these debates, these often come down to personal preferences on what […]
Joya de Nicaragua is the latest company to team up with Cigar Dojo for an exclusive release. The release is called Joya Ninjaragua and it will be a small batch release sold exclusively at Smoke Inn. The basis for the blend was chosen from three candidate blends by attendees of a Cigar Dojo Cigar Safari […]
For the fourth year in a row Tabacalera SLU will release a Chinese New Year commemorative cigar under its VegaFina brand. For 2021, that cigar is the VegaFina Year of the Ox. The cigar features a Habana 2000 wrapper over a blend of Dominican and Nicaraguan tobaccos. The cigar measures 56 x 159 mm (56 […]
