Over a decade ago, CAO Cigars released a unique project called CAO Vision. It was unique in a lot of ways because the cigar was the first CAO Cigar to be made in the Dominican Republic (La Aurora) and it was a cigar that featured a unique space-age type box that illuminated. Fast forward to […]
Cigar News: Viaje Exclusivo Leaded Maduro Arrives at Stores
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Viaje has just rolled out its latest iteration of the Viaje Exclusivo brand, the Viaje Exclusivo Leaded Maduro. For many years, Viaje Exclusivo was the private blend of Viaje Cigars owner Andre Farkas. The blend itself is all Nicaraguan tobacco. In 2015, due to the popularity of the Exclusivo brand Farkas made it an ongoing […]
Cigar News: HVC Black Friday 2020 Limited Edition Announced
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Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is known as the biggest shopping day of the year. It’s a day in our culture that has taken on a life of its own. Each year since 2015, HVC Cigars has released a limited edition cigar meant to coincide with Black Friday. 2020 is no exception as HVC […]
Cigar News: Southern Draw Jacobs Ladder Brimstone Gets Two New Sizes
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Southern Draw Cigars has announced two line extensions to its Jacobs Ladder Brimstone brand. This includes a 9 x 48 Gran Corona known as El Presidente and a 5 x 58 perfecto known as Oblivion. Un Presidente will be an ongoing limited production release while Oblivion is being released as an exclusive to Cigar Federation. […]
Cigar News: Joya de Nicaragua Cinco Décadas El Embargo Announced as European Exclusive
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Joya de Nicaragua has announced a new extension to its Cinco Décadas line known as El Embargo. The Joya de Nicaragua Cinco Décadas is the fifth size in the blend that was launched in 2018 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the oldest cigar factory in Nicaragua. The Cinco Décadas line pays homage to the […]
Cigar News: Alec Bradley Project 40 Maduro Announced
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This week Alec Bradley Cigar Company announced the release of the Alec Bradley Project 40 Maduro – the second cigar in the company’s Experimental Series. It’s a follow-up to the original Alec Bradey Project 40 which landed the #3 Cigar of the Year on Cigar Coop in 2019. ‘Project 40’ is the name for a […]
Cigar News: Lost & Found “The Cigar Rivalry” Coming to R & R Cigar Mansion for 2020 Alabama – Tennessee Game
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The month of October is famous for one of College Football’s great rivalries: University of Alabama versus University of Tennessee and once again the R&R Cigar Mansion will have a special cigar to commemorate the game. This year, the Tuscaloosa, Alabama cigar retailer is teaming up with Lost & Found Cigars to release, “The Cigar […]
Cigar News: La Palina Silver Label Goes Regular Production and Expands to Three Vitolas
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The La Palina Silver Label is going regular production. The cigar was originally released in 2019 as an exclusive to the Tobacconists Association of America and becomes La Palina’s fourth consecutive TAA to go regular production. Originally released in a Toro (6 1/2 x 52) size to the TAA, the same size returns along with […]
Cigar News: Foundation Cigar Company to Add The Tabernacle David & Goliath Perfectos
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Foundation Cigar Company has announced the addition of two perfectos to The Tabernacle line. Keeping to the biblical inspiration for this theme, the new perfectos are called David & Goliath. The Tabernacle David is a 5 x 54 perfecto while The Tabernacle Goliath is a 5 x 58 perfecto. Both David & Goliath will be […]
Cigar Review: La Aurora 107 Cosecha 2007 Corona Gorda
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In 2016, Manuel Inoa and La Aurora Cigars released an extension of the popular La Aurora 107 brand known as the La Aurora 107 Cosecha 2006. This was a cigar that was significant in that it incorporated tobaccos from a 2006 vintage crop into the blend. It was a cigar that garnered both critical and […]