CLE Plus 11/18 (Photo courtesy of Butthead’s Tobacco Emporium) Danbury, Connecticut Retailer Butthead’s Tobacco Emporium will be receiving an exclusive frontmark to the recently announced CLE Plus line. The exclusive size will be the 11/18 vitola – a size that is well known to Fabricas Unidas (CLE parent company) founder Christian Eiroa and his family. […]
Christian Eiroa is adding a new blend to his CLE Cigar line. The CLE Plus will become the fourth blend in the CLE line. Information on this release was provided to Cigar Coop via a company press release. It was back in December, 2012 where we first learned of the CLE Plus when Eiroa was […]
Update 4/15/13: The following was one of the ultimate April Fool’s Pranks by the Cigar Industry. Even a bogus press release was made on this one. Turns out this campaign was a “smokescreen” for the launch of a new magazine. Many were fooled, many were not. We were one of the ones who got […]
The purpose of this list is not to expand our Top 30 to Top 40. These are not cigars 31 to 40 being listed. In alphabetical order, we list ten honorable mentions that came oh so close to making the countdown and deserve recognition as very good smokes. Why ten more cigars after already ranking […]
Virginia-based retailer Emerson Cigars announced they have availability of EH Cigars. It is believed this is one of the first retailers nationwide to be accepting orders that are ready to ship for this cigar. EH Cigars is a line of cigars from Edgar Hoill. Hoill is a photographer best known for collaborating with Room 101 […]
#22: CLE Corojo The selection for #22 Cigar on the Cigar of the Year Countdown is the CLE Corojo. This was a cigar that flew under the radar quite a bit. The CLE Corojo was one of two initial blends released by former Camacho president, Christian Eiroa’s new company – CLE. The CLE Corojo […]
Asylum Cigars is planning on launching a new 7 x 70 cigar called the Asylum Ogre. The Ogre will not only be a large ring gauge cigar, but it will be a barberpole. The unique thing about this particular barberpole is that it will consist of a combination of candela and maduro wrappers. This […]
CLE Connecticut The CLE Connecticut is the third cigar to be launched by Christian Eiroa’s CLE company. Eiroa is best known for his tenure as president of Camacho Cigars. After Davidoff acquired Camacho, Eiroa stayed on for a while before leaving to launch CLE. CLE stands for the initials of Eiroa’s full-name – Christian Luis […]
CLE Connecticut Quietly, Christian Eiroa’s CLE Cigars is rolling out a third blend. This third blend will add an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper option to the portfolio. The cigar is appropriately called CLE Connecticut. The CLE Connecticut joins the CLE Corojo and the CLE Cuarenta. Those two first blends were both released prior to the […]
CLE Corojo The CLE Corojo is one of two new blends launched by Christian Eiroa’s new company CLE Cigars. Eiroa is best known for his tenure as president of Camacho Cigars. After Davidoff acquired Camacho, Eiroa stayed on for a while before leaving to launch CLE. CLE stands for the initials of Eiroa’s full-name – […]
