At Tobacco World’s 15th Anniversary event in Marietta, Georgia, pre-orders were taken for “The Big Red Machine”. The cigar is being produced by Ortega Premium Cigars as a part of the 2014 South Eastern Series. The South Eastern Series will provide a different cigar blend for four retailers in the Southeast United States. The cigar […]
News: Bodega Premium Blends Reunión to be Released by Year’s End (Cigar Preview)
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Bodega Premium Blends has officially announced the launch of its first line of cigars, Reunion. The Reunion will feature two blends, Aperitivo and Digestivo. Both blends will be packaged together in boxes of 20. Reunion will arrive in the United States in December and be available shortly after that. At the 2013 IPCPR Trade Show, it was announced that […]
News: New Company ONE 13 Cigars to Launch Two New Blends
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ONE 13 represents a new boutique cigar company based in San Antonio, Texas founded by two friends, Steven Dru and Joe Torres. The company will be launching two new blends, the ONE 13 Natural “Prelude” and the ONE 13 Maduro “Prelude”. The name of the company is derived from the fact that both Dru and Torres […]
News: Viaje Holiday Blend 2013 (Cigar Preview)
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Viaje Holiday Blend 2013 (Photo Andre Farkas Facebook) For the fifth consecutive year, Viaje Cigars will release an installment of its Holiday Blend series – the Viaje Holiday Blend 2013. This cigar is typically a Nicaraguan puro that features a criollo wrapper. For the 2013 Holiday Blend, the size will be a 4 1/2 x 56 […]
News: Ditka 89 by Camacho Nears Shipment (Cigar Preview)
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The Ditka 89, the fifth installment in Camacho’s Mike Ditka line of cigars is scheduled to make its way to retailers in late November. The release is meant to coincide with Ditka’s upcoming jersey/number retirement ceremony on December 9th at Soldier Field in Chicago. Back in September, word first surfaced from Camacho Cigars on the […]
News: La Flor Dominicana Edicion Exclusiva Coming to Mickey Blake’s in December
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Southington, Connecticut retailer Mickey Blake’s will become the latest retailer to receive an exclusive cigar from La Flor Dominicana. The retailer posted a picture today of the new La Flor Dominicana Edicion Exclusiva. According to a Facebook post by La Flor Dominicana Vice President of Sales Jon Carney, the cigars should be available December 4th, […]
News: Davidoff 2014 Year of the Horse Nears Shipment (Cigar Preview)
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Packaging of the Davidoff 2014 Year of the Horse (Cigar Coop IPCPR Photo) Several retailers are now taking pre-orders for the Davidoff 2014 Year of the Horse. This is the second limited edition cigar with the theme around the Chinese New Year following the Davidoff 2013 Year of the Snake edition. The Year of the […]
News: RoMa Craft Tobac Gives Early Preview for 2014
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Over the past couple of days, RoMa Craft Tobac co-owners Skip Martin and Michael Rosales made appearances on both the Stogie Geeks and CigarChat shows and gave some insights into their company – as well as a preview into “what’s up and coming” in the future. RoMa Craft Tobac was formed last year as a […]
News: La Flor Dominicana Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch No. 5 (Cigar Preview)
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Back in August we noted an interview that La Flor Dominicana president Litto Gomez did with Emerson Cigars’ on some new projects in the works. One of those projects is the latest installment of the Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch series – the Litto Gomez Small Batch No. 5. Last week Cigar Aficionado had additional […]
News: Epicurean Carnavale Coming in Early 2014 (Cigar Preview – Exclusive)
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Epicurean Carnival (Pre-Release) Epicurean Cigars will be releasing a new blend in early 2014. The cigar will be known as “Carnavale” and feature an oscuro wrapper from Jalapa. Details of this announcement were told to Cigar Coop from company president Steven Ysidron. According to Ysidron, this was a blend that he worked on that “had […]