Last month, Camacho introduced its new American Barrel Aged line – a line of cigars featuring mostly American tobaccos along with a leaf of tobacco aged in a bourbon barrel. The Camacho American Barrel Aged was front and center and the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show. For those who visited the Davidoff booth, there was one […]
It’s been over ten months since General Cigar acquired the brands of Torano Family Cigars. For the most part, the Torano has remained quite quiet since this was incorporated into the General portfolio. While there was some speculation there would be a major push around Torano, this was not the case. However, there was one announcement made at […]
For the sixth consecutive year, the Viaje Satori has made an appearance at the IPCPR Trade Show. The line was introduced in 2010 as a cigar available only to retailers who attend the trade show. This year, while there aren’t a lot of changes to the line, there is a big change in terms of […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Jose Seijas’ Matilde Cigars officially launched its second line, the Matilde Oscura. This cigar is meant to introduce a fuller smoke into the company’s portfolio joining the Matilde Renacer that was launched 19 months ago. The Oscura derives its name from the dark Mexican San Andres wrapper that covers […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Illusione Cigars owner Dion Giolito focused mostly on new line extensions instead of launching new brands. This year, one of the extensions comes to his regular production Fume D’Amour line in the form of a 7 1/2 x 40 lancero known as the Illusione Fume D’Amout Juniperos. Juniperos becomes […]
Back at the Southern Cigar Festival, Arby Sosa of Sosa Cigars told us of a cigar that was being released as a part of the 50th anniversary of Sosa Cigars called Half Century. This cigar is significant because it uses a special Cameroon seed wrapper grown in Mexico. The Half Century was showcased at the […]
While we didn’t expect many 80 ring gauge cigars to be introduced at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, leave it to Matt Booth to throw a curveball. Booth is introducing a line extension to his value-priced Big Payback line skewed toward big ring gauges. The Big Payback Jaquemate will be an 8 x 80 bellicose. […]
1502 Cigars founder Enrique Sanchez Icaza has taken his time in building his four regular production lines in his portfolio. With his fourth line the 1502 Nicaragua receiving its first line extension this year, many did not expect Sanchez to have a new product at the show. However Sanchez threw many for a loop, by […]
If there was any doubt that last year’s split of Robert Wright’s Pura Soul Cigars from Christian Eire’s CLE Cigars was amicable, it was answered at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show when Pura Soul Cigars was at the CLE Cigars booth. While Pura Soul is now handling its own distribution, CLE continues to make Pura […]
We expected it to be a big hit at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show. Now Altadis has reported that the allocation of the Henry Clay Tattoo, the collaboration done between Altadis’ Grupo de Maestros and Tatuaje’s Pete Johnson officially sold out at the trade show. There was a 50,000 cigar allocation for the Henry Clay […]
