Caldwell Cigar Company’s maduro offering, the Eastern Standard Midnight Express had its official launch at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show. Eastern Standard Midnight Express uses the Araparica Connecticut Shade Hybrid leaf found on the company’s Last Tsar line. The difference is the leaf is subject to additional fermentation to transform it into a maduro wrapper. The […]
All Out Kings the long-awaited collaboration between Drew Estate and Caldwell Cigar Company will officially be launched at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show opening July 24th, 2016 in Las Vegas. This past weekend, details surrounding the project were officially announced. It was back in February when news of the project was first reported by Cigar […]
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
Add Nicaragua to the list of countries where Robert Caldwell will be producing his cigars. Today, Cigar Federation broke news that Caldwell has teamed up with Drew State Tobacco Company to produce a cigar called “All Out Kings”. Caldwell is working along side Drew Estate Master Blender Willy Herrera on the cigar blend at the […]
Prior to the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, word came from Caldwell Cigar Company of a new cigar line called Blind Man’s Bluff. When Robert Caldwell returned to the cigar business last year with Caldwell Cigar Company, he went to the Dominican Republic and teamed up with Tabacalera William Ventura to produce his lines. With Blind […]
There is a new line extension coming to Caldwell Cigar Company’s Blind Man’s Bluff line in a Corona Gorda size – and it is slated to become a limited production shop exclusive at Burns Tobacconist in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Officially dubbed the Blind Man’s Bluff Corona, the cigar is expected to arrive at Burns the week […]
Caldwell Cigar Company’s second installment of its limited edition “The Last Tsar” line is now on en-route to retailers. This installment introduces a 7 x 47 Churchill offering into the line. Word of The Last Tsar Churchill surfaced at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show and was confirmed in a post IPCPR conversation we had with […]
Earlier this year, Robert Caldwell’s Caldwell Cigar Company announced its first limited edition project. While the project was initially with a code name “Nothing You Ever Heard of”, it would become known as “The Last Tsar”. This limited edition was not planned to be “one and done”, but more of a limited production that […]
Editor’s Note For the sixth consecutive year, the Cigar Coop brand will be providing coverage of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Association Trade Show and Convention. For the past three years we have brought to you our multi-part preview series on what to expect from the show. This year we made some […]
If you listened to Episode 138 of Stogie Geeks with Robert Caldwell, he mentioned that he had some plans to rework the Junior Varsity line. In a recent report by Cigar Aficionado, plans were announced that the line was being revamped into a new line called Iberian Express. The line will consist of three blends: Sevillana […]
