The idea of pairing cigars and meat has been quite a popular concept over the past year. We’ve seen companies such as La Flor Dominicana and Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust do it. However if you go back four years ago, it was Cattle Baron Cigars that brought this concept to market. Cattle Baron Cigars is […]
JRE Tobacco Company continues to expand its portfolio with two new offerings under its Aladino brand in 2020. Since launching, Aladino has become the workhorse brand for JRE Tobacco. The expansion would include two offerings containing a different wrapper from tobaccos grown on the JRE Tobacco Farm. One of those offerings was the Aladino Cameroon […]
The 2019 IPCPR Trade Show featured a new company on the scene known as ACE Prime. In recent years, with the threat of federal regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), newer companies at the Trade Show have been less frequent. What made ACE Prime’s debut impressive is they would launch three brands […]
Between his career at Drew Estate and at the helm of his own cigar company Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, Steve Saka had one type of cigar that was considered a gap missing from his creations, a Connecticut Shade cigar. Connecticut Shade cigars are considered an important part of a cigar company’s offerings because they […]
In 2020, Tatuaje Cigars introduced a new permutation of the Monsters Series known as the Monster Bomb Squad (MBS). MBS was released in a single blend known as the MBS FK that was based on 2016’s Tatuaje – The Krueger blend. As many know, the Monsters Series pays homage to various classic and contemporary horror […]
In the past few years, the story of the transformation of the Diesel brand has simply been remarkable. A little over three years ago, Diesel has a highly popular catalog brand offering in the Meier & Dutch portfolio when the decision was made to move the brand into his sister company, General Cigar Company and […]
Back in February 2018, Mombacho Cigars President and Master Blender Claudio Sgroi was a guest on Prime Time Special Edition 24. On that show, he announced there were plans to launch a cigar called Casa Favilli that would feature a Nicaraguan Broadleaf wrapper. A few months later, a formal announcement was released to the press […]
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 […]
In 2018, the company known as Casa Fernandez Cigars underwent a major rebranding. The company renamed itself to Aganorsa Leaf and then proceeded to streamline and refresh the packaging in its portfolio. This process is not something that has been done overnight as Aganorsa Leaf has slowly been implementing this. In 2020, there was a […]
Since Matt Booth departed Davidoff and came back from a brief “retirement,” he has been focused on building up his product portfolio. When he returned in 2017, Booth primarily focused on introducing new blends and lines, but that would all change in 2019 with the announcement of The Big Payback Maduro. The Big Payback is […]
