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 providing a score for a first time. It might be a blend we […]
This year, My Father Cigars reaches back into the past and is re-releasing one of their all-time classic cigars. The Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Limited Edition makes a return – bringing back the original blend from 2011. The cigars are slated to hit retailers this month. The Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Limited Edition 2017 features a […]
Get ready for Prime Time – the podcast dedicated to covering the cigar industry! This week Aaron is back and he has brought friends – Yellow Snapper and Big Tuna from Developing Palates! We will catch up and have plenty of Cuba talk. Our Debonaire Ideal Segment is on Cars – and in our Deliberation, we will talk about things […]
Warped Cigars’ Black Honey, a mash-up of the El Oso and La Colmena blends that was last released in 2015 is making a return. Black Honey consists of the Ecuadorian Habano oscuro wrapper found on El Oso Cub and PaPa while the internals of the blend consists of the tobaccos of La Colmena (which utilizes a Ecuadorian binder and a combination of […]
General Cigar Company has named Sean Williams a brand ambassador for Cohiba. Williams is best known as the owner and founder of Primer Mundo Cigar Company. “We have brought Sean on board as part of the continued expansion of our experiential platforms,” said General Cigar President Régis Broersma in a press release. “Our focus is […]
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
On June 10th, 2016, Padrón Cigars patriarch and founder José O. Padrón celebrated his 90th birthday. A few weeks later at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, Padrón Cigars launched a cigar to commemorate the occasion with the Padrón 1926 Serie No. 90. The No. 90 is an extension to the popular Padrón 1926 Serie line. It is not a typical […]
After nearly five years, Quesada Cigars Q d’etat line is set to return The line will include all three of the releases from 2012 including the Molotov, Howitzer, and Daga. Plans are for Q d’etat to be showcased at this year’s 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, with an early release planned for June 1st, 2017 that […]
2017 has simply been a major year of change at Cigar Coop – and I could not be more excited. This year, we reverted Cigar Coop back to an independent company. We were once before, but we also weren’t a revenue business at that time either. With that has come all of the changes needed to do […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will extend and defer enforcement of all future compliance deadlines under the Rule for cigar and pipe tobacco products for three months (90 days). The decision stems from the joint cigar industry’s lawsuit against the FDA. Last month, the court date for the lawsuit was pushed back 30 days.. […]
Mombacho Cigars S.A. has announced today that Mo Maali has been named the company’s National Sales Manager. “I’m thrilled to have Mo on board. His experience in the cigar industry will bring strength to the Mombacho Cigars organization and his extreme passion for our brands is endless. Mo has the knowledge and personality to guide […]
May 6th marks the second year for Oklahoma City’s Smoklahoma event. For this year’s event, Crux Cigar Company will introduce a new sampler collection – The Crux Cigars Corona Gorda Collection. The sampler will feature ten cigars sized in a classic 5 3/4 x 46 Corona Gorda size. The ten cigar sampler will include of […]
