Quesada Cigars and The Cigar Shop are teaming up for a limited edition exclusive size of the Oktoberfest 2017. A copy of the press release is below: For the past seven years, the seasonal small batch release of Quesada Cigars’ Quesada Oktoberfest, has become a tradition cigar enthusiasts look forward to each Fall. The Oktoberfest is a cigar line […]
This month, we celebrated our seven-year anniversary of Cigar Coop. It’s a milestone that this author is particularly proud of – especially this year as we have essentially built a whole new media company to support the Cigar Coop brands. I’ve mentioned it before. The origins of Cigar Coop go back to coffee. It was […]
In 2018, Joya de Nicaragua will celebrate 50 years in business. While the company was has not announced specific plans around how they will commemorate that milestone, this year Joya still showcased a new product, a new packaging design, and a new sampler. Joya de Nicaraguan’s signature release was the Joya de Nicaragua Antaño Gran Reserva. Keep […]
Halfwheel.com is an industry leader when it comes to cigar media, and on Prime Time Episode 19 we welcome one of the co-founders Charlie Minato to the show. We will discuss how Halfwheel rose to become one of the top cigar media sites of all time. In our Debonaire Ideal segment, we will talk some post-Mayweather-McGregor fight talk. Finally, in our Deliberation […]
Imperial Tobacco and its premium cigar division Tabacalera USA and their affiliates announced they are donating $50,000 to the American Red Cross for Hurricane related assistance in Houston, Texas and other affected areas. “We have been touched by the devastation, loss of life and disruption this natural disaster has wrought on Houstonians and many […]
White Hat Cigars is a distribution company headed up by industry veteran Spencer Drake. The company handles the distribution of the HR line of cigars. When Hiroshi Robaina and the La Corona factory parted way with Cubanacan Cigars, both Robaina and La Corona needed a distribution arm to keep the HR brand going. Drake had built a relationship with […]
Halfwheel.com is an industry leader when it comes to cigar media, and on Prime Time Episode 19 we welcome one of the co-founders Charlie Minato to the show. We will discuss how Halfwheel rose to become one of the top cigar media sites of all time. In our Debonaire Ideal segment, we will talk some post-Mayweather-McGregor fight talk. Finally, in our Deliberation […]
For Special Edition #10, we discuss people switched jobs in the cigar industry We discuss where the move has been more successful than others and what the impact has been. We also smoke Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s Todos Las Dias and go deep on it. As an added twist, we also will take one of those cigars and place it in our humidors […]
Drew Estate’s Herrera Estelí line now has a 6 x 60 offering – and it will become the latest installment in Alliance Cigar’s DeSocio series. The DeSocio series is a set of exclusive sizes of popular cigar blends that are only available through Alliance Cigar. The DeSocio series was the brainchild of Tom Sullivan, President […]
Hong Kong businessman Sir David Tang, known to the cigar industry as the founder and chairman of Pacific Cigar Company, has died at age 63. Pacific Cigar Company is the exclusive distributor of Habanos products and the exclusive distributor of Habanos SA products in the Asia Pacific region. The company also offered cigar accessories branded […]
One year ago at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis U.S.A. launched a special, limited edition cigar known as the Montecristo Artisan Series Batch 1. Given the name, it was safe to assume there would be a Batch 2. At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis U.S.A delivered the follow-up with the Montcristo Artisan Series […]
While he retired from a day-to-day role at General Cigar Company over three years ago, Benji Menendez is still very much a part of the General Cigar family. At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, General Cigar Company held a private reception to honor Menendez for his 60+ years of service in the cigar industry. “Our […]
