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 […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Avo Cigars its latest version of the Avo Quartet. The new Avo Quartet 2015 is a sampler of four robusto-sized Avo Cigars. Like the previous installment, this sampler is priced at “four for the price of three”. It also includes a “Mystery Cigar” to provide input into a new […]
The Avo Syncro Nicaragua is a new regular production cigar by Avo Cigars that was announced prior to the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show. It was at the trade show where the cigar had its first official launch. The Avo Syncro Nicaragua is the first new line introduced to Avo since the brand was revamped earlier this […]
Fourteen years ago, Avo Cigars released a special limited edition cigar for brand ambassador Avo Uvezian’s 75th birthday on March 22, 2001 appropriately titled the Avo 75th Anniversary. Since then, a limited edition cigar would follow each subsequent year for Uvezian’s birthday (until this year when the Avo Limited Edition 2015 moved away from being a birthday cigar). […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Matt Booth’s Room 101 Cigars unveiled a new cigar called “Johnny Tobacconault”. The cigar carries a theme of “intergalatic funk”, but from a tobacco standpoint it marks the second Nicaraguan puro being released in the Room 101 portfolio. The cigar is a limited production cigar with a total of […]
Tubo offerings have pretty much been a staple of the Camacho line. At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show in New Orleans, Camacho showed off its first tubo offering to its Camacho Ecuador line. The Camacho Ecuador Robusto Tubo will house a 5 x 50 Camacho Ecuador cigar. The new Robusto Tubo is expected to ship […]
Last month, Camacho introduced its new American Barrel Aged line – a line of cigars featuring mostly American tobaccos along with a leaf of tobacco aged in a bourbon barrel. The Camacho American Barrel Aged was front and center and the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show. For those who visited the Davidoff booth, there was one […]
In 2011, Davidoff of Geneva named Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard its Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Davidoff has grown and this past year the company saw record revenue and production levels. There have been two key strategic initiatives we have seen from Davidoff: innovation and the “crop to shop strategy” – both of which have been […]
While we didn’t expect many 80 ring gauge cigars to be introduced at the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, leave it to Matt Booth to throw a curveball. Booth is introducing a line extension to his value-priced Big Payback line skewed toward big ring gauges. The Big Payback Jaquemate will be an 8 x 80 bellicose. […]
For the fourth consecutive year, Davidoff Cigar hosted its annual the Golden Band Awards Show at the IPCPR Trade Show. This year the awards were held at the Sugar Mill in New Orleans. The awards program is meant to honor and the company’s best Appointed Merchants that according to Davidoff “truly embody the Davidoff Standard of […]
