Viaje has announced a new installment to its Thanksgiving Seasonal release series. This one is an offshoot of the Farmer Bill Hatchet line and its called Farmhand Andre. It’s a cigar that features the name and image of Viaje Cigars founder Andre Farkas. While details of the blend have not been disclosed, the cigar itself […]
For Viaje’s small batch November release, the company will release the third installment of its Viaje Craft Series. This one is called Wilshire and La Jolla. The release takes inspiration from two famous streets in Downtown Los Angeles, California – an area home to several craft breweries. The Craft Series is a line that draws […]
Earlier this month we announced that Cigar Jukebox was joining the Prime Time family podcasts under the name Prime Time Cigar Jukebox. Today, we are announcing a slight change to the branding of the show as it will now be known as Prime Time Jukebox. As we looked at the naming, Prime Time Jukebox had […]
Today, we announce “The Blog” for Cigar Coop. It’s a new feature that will replace the Editor’s Corner feature which is being sunset. Hold your horses, isn’t Cigar Coop already a blog? If you go back ten years ago, anyone who wrote something online who didn’t have a print media component was called a blogger […]
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 […]
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 […]
Back in 2017, Illusione Cigars owner Dion Giolito announced he was bringing back a brand known as OneOff. OneOff was a brand that achieved a cult status in the marketplace. Eventually, the brand fell dormant and pretty much disappeared from retail shelves. It was a brand that had always intrigued Giolito. As it was a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Late in 2015, cigar maker James Brown launched his second brand known as Black Works Studio. One of the first releases under that brand was a box-pressed offering known as NBK (an acronym for Natural Born Killers). At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Brown would introduce an off-shoot of NBK that would be made available […]
Villiger Cigars has announced the release of the Villiger Cuellar Black Forest. The cigar is the second blend under the Villiger Cuellar line joining the Villiger Cuellar Connecticut Krēmē. The name of the cigar is inspired by the mystical Black Forest, located on the Southern side of Germany, close to the border of Switzerland where […]
The FDA is helping the cigar industry in the fight against the agency itself. Yes, it’s happening as today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has filed an appeal on the decision of Judge Paul Grimm of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland which moved to accelerate the timetable where […]
