The Powstanie SBC 20 is the third installment of Powstanie cigar’s limited edition SBC series. Powstanie is a brand owned by Mike and Greg Szczepankiewicz, the owners of Cigar Hustler. To produce their brand the Szczepankiewicz brothers teamed up with Nica Sueño, the factory co-owned by Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac. SBC stands for […]
Today, we are looking at the Foreign Affair Corona by Luciano Cigars. Foreign Affair is a collaborative brand launched by Luciano Cigars early in 2023. In 2022, Luciano Meirelles reorganized his operation and created Luciano Cigars from ACE Prime. One of the most exciting things about Luciano Cigars is that it has established a network […]
In 2023, Emilio Cigars would release its second installment of the Emilio Audiophile. Emilio is one of the four brands distributed by Oveja Negra Cigars and produced at Fabrica Oveja Negra. The Audiophile debuted as a limited edition cigar at the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. Today, we take a closer look at […]
In 2022, Davidoff announced that AVO Cigars would be retiring the annual AVO Limited Edition series as we know it. The series started in 2001 when the cigar was released as a commemorative birthday release for brand founder Avo Uzevian. In 2015, the series was morphed into the AVO Improvisation Series, which also were limited […]
In 2022, Plasencia Cigars quietly started telling retailers of an ultra-premium limited edition offering known as the Plasencia Ehtëfal. The release of the Plasencia Ehtëfal was meant to coincide with the 2022 FIFA World Cup that was taking place in Qatar in November 2022. Plasencia Cigars made it clear that this was not a commemorative […]
Back in 2017, Boutique Blends Cigars entered into a strategic agreement with Altadis U.S.A. where Altadis would handle the company’s distribution and co-owner Rafael Nodal would become the Director (now Vice President) of Product Capability at Altadis U.S.A. One could easily say this has been one of the most successful strategic partnerships in the cigar […]
Back at the 2022 Trade Show, Luciano Cigars, then known as ACE Prime, would introduce an exclusive cigar to retailers attending the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) known as Maria Lucia. The cigar is named and pays homage to company co-founder and blender Luciano Meirelles’ late mother. In blending Maria Lucia, Meirelles drew inspiration from his […]
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 […]
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. It might be a blend we are looking at in a different size. Today, […]
Each year when I go to the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, one of the companies I most look forward to visiting is Esteban Carreras. Esteban Carreras typically has one new release a year and launches it at the Trade Show. Esteban Carreras does not announce what its new cigar is before the trade […]
