At the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, Casa Cuevas Cigars would introduce its eighth regular production line, Sangre Nueva. Sangre Nueva means “New Blood” and it was an appropriate name. This was a cigar line that was spearheaded by Alec Cuevas, who now is the company’s Director of Brand Development. Alec would become […]
In 2022, Crowned Heads released the Four Kicks Mule Kick Limited Edition 2022 (LE 2022). If you go back into the history of Crowned Heads, the Mule Kick is the oldest limited edition line in the company’s portfolio going back to 2012. It was in that year that there was a batch of Ecuadorian Habano […]
Last year, Global Premium Cigars celebrated ten years of the 1502 brand. To commemorate the occasion, the company introduced a new regular production line under the 1502 brand – appropriately titled the 1502 Aniversario 10. It was Global Premium Cigars’ first new regular production line under the 1502 brand since 2016 (when the company launched […]
If you follow the Davidoff brand since mid-2017, the focus has been on limited editions. It was in 2017 that Davidoff released its last core line, the Davidoff Winston Churchill Late Hour. The limited editions that have been released since then have either been old limited editions that have been brought back for another one, […]
One of the big stories of 2022 was the announcement that celebrity restauranteur Guy Fieri would be teaming up with Espinosa Cigars to launch the Knuckle Sandwich brand of cigars. Knuckle Sandwich Cigars is a brand produced by Espinosa Cigars and distributed by Espinosa Cigars. Over the years, company president Erik Espinosa had developed 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 25th anniversary of South Florida retail chain Smoke Inn was in 2021. As he had done with the 15th and 20th anniversaries, Smoke Inn proprietor Abe Dababneh would commission a commemorative cigar as a part of the Smoke Inn MicroBlend series. With this particular cigar, Dababneh decided the cigar would pay tribute to his […]
In 2022, online and catalog retailer JR Cigars would launch a new limited edition line of cigars known as JR Pure Origin. For many years, JR Cigars has produced its own cigars under the JR name with most of these being valued-priced and bundled offerings. When JR Cigars celebrated its 50th anniversary a couple of […]
The 7-20-4 Hustler Five & Dime is a cigar that was made exclusive by 7-20-4 Cigars for retailers who placed orders at the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. PCA Trade Show exclusive cigars are not a new concept, but in 2021, the PCA made an attempt to somewhat formalize these trade show releases into […]
One thing we see in the cigar industry is many retailers becoming brand owners. Some retailers will carry house brands that they sell in their own stores. Other retailers will go a step further and become full-fledged cigar companies and distribute their product nationwide. Early in 2022 came word that Sanj Patel, owner of Sanj’s […]
