Earlier this month came a proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2021 by U.S. President Donald Trump. In that budget was a proposal where oversight of tobacco and alternative tobacco products would be moving out of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into its own agency still under the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
Luis Falto, President, CEO and Master Blender of Tabacalera Falto, Inc. (consisting of La Garita Cigar Co. and Cigarros Falto brands) based in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico has announced his company will release two limited edition cigars in 2020 to commemorate his company’s 25th anniversary. These cigars include the Falto Edición Especial ELH Hato Viejo 2018 […]
It appears that plans for Hawaii to become the first state to raise the legal tobacco purchase age to 25 are on hold. West Hawaii Today, a publication on the Big Island of Hawaii, has reported the bill that would raise the age has died in the State House. The report says that while the […]
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 […]
Next week Crux Cigars will introduce two new sizes of its Epicure Maduro in the form of a Corona Gorda and Gorda size. The new releases will bring the total number of vitolas in the Crux Epicure Maduro line to five. Crux Epicure Maduro is the company’s first San Andres Maduro offering. It is also […]
Emperors Group, L.L.C., the parent company of Emperors Cut Cigars has announced it has added three new sizes to its Natural Pleasure line. This includes a Grand Robusto (5 1/2 x 56, $10.00 SRP), Robusto (5 x 50, $9.00 SRP), and “Shawty” (4 x 56, $9.00 SRP) line. Natural Pleasure is the first line that […]
The bad news – I won’t be filing a Day Three Post-Game report from ProCigar 2020. Due to other commitments, I had to leave ProCigar a day early. This was planned in advance, and I couldn’t be more disappointed. My intent is usually to cover an event from start to finish. In the case of […]
As I mentioned in my pre game report, ProCigar is a festival and not a trade show, Cigar Coop has covered trade shows for the past decade and focused on product coverage. ProCigar is a festival and I knew coming in it would be different. About 12 hours into my stay in the Dominican Republic, […]
For the first time in our near ten years of existence, Cigar Coop is attending ProCigar 2020! Actually, this author is attending a portion of the event and for the most part coming in somewhere in the middle of this.. ProCigar is an organization of cigar manufacturers based in the Dominican Republic. Each year they […]
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 giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Jochy Blanco introduced his fifth regular production line under his La Galera brand known as the La Galera Anemoi. Anemoi would be Blanco’s first Connecticut Broadleaf offering under the La Galera brand and the first new line in three years. Anemoi (pronounced: A-nem-oy) it pays homage to the winds […]
Last year came word that Rocky Patel Premium Cigars would take over as the official cigar of the World Cigar Smoking Championship. At TPE 2020, Rocky Patel launched that cigar to general availability in the U.S. market. Rocky Patel replaces the Macanudo Inspirado (Orange) Mareva, a 5 1/8 x 42 Petit Corona that had been […]
