At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, La Flor Dominicana released the latest installment of its Factory Press series. This year’s release was simply dubbed the La Flor Dominicana Factory Press. It was the first Factory Press release that La Flor Dominicana had released in four years. The Factory Press series has three signature characteristics: First, […]
The Viaje Hamaki is a cigar that made its debut in 2017. For Viaje Cigars, it would be the second cigar done in conjunction with the Quesada Cigars factory in the Dominican Republic. One year earlier, Viaje had released its Juntos 2016 release. Juntos would be the new name for the Viaje Collaboration Series, a […]
2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the AVO Cigars brand. Earlier this year, Davidoff announced plans to commemorate the 30th anniversary with a year-long series of releases. While the series mostly consists of bringing back some limited edition cigars, some discontinued cigars, and releasing some commemorative packaging, there is one new release that has been […]
Tatuaje – The Michael is the twelfth blend to be released in Tatuaje’s Monster Series. In 2017, Tatuaje Owner Pete Johnson announced that Tatuaje – The Michael and Tatuaje – The Bride were slated to be the 12th and 13th installments of its annual Monsters Series. Johnson also said these two blends would be the […]
The 1502 Blue Sapphire is the sixth line under Global Premium Cigars’ 1502 brand. The cigar was officially announced just prior to the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show and would subsequently have a formal launch at the trade show. The cigar is billed as a Nicaraguan puro. Back in 2014, 1502 Cigars had released its first […]
The Zino brand was established back in 2003 and was targeted to offer high-quality premium cigars to a younger, more contemporary audience. Over the past few years, the brand has become one of the dormant ones in the Davidoff portfolio. (During the past five years, Davidoff has focused on building its Black Label Discovery Series […]
Back in 2015, Arturo Fuente Cigars would introduce two limited production cigars that would celebrate a couple of milestones. May 6th of 2015 would mark the 80th birthday of family patriarch Carlos Fuente Sr. At the same time, the company was getting ready to commemorate 40 years of its Don Carlos brand in 2016. Given […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Global Premium Cigars introduced its first limited production line known as the 1502 XO. This was an ambitious project by company CEO Enrique Sanchez Icaza in that he built a blend around 18-year-old tobacco that he was able to secure. The cigar was first launched in a Toro size, […]
For the third consecutive year, C.L.E. Cigar Company is releasing an exclusive cigar for the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA). While the past two years have seen C.L.E. release new blends to the TAA, for its 2018 release, the company made a decision to create a line extension to one of its most popular lines, […]
Back in 2013, Camacho Cigars underwent one of the most significant brand revamping the premium cigar industry has seen in recent years. As a part of the overhaul, there was new packaging introduced as well as several re-blends of some of Camacho’s long-time brands. At that same time, several other Camacho brands were discontinued. Among […]