2019 was the third IPCPR for Kevin Schweitzer and Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group. Last year the company was a part of American Caribbean Cigars booth, but this year Schweitzer was back in his own booth. Since Schweitzer acquired Vintage Rockefeller Cigar Group in 2017, he has focused on the company’s Nicaraguan blends. While the Nicaraguan blends were still […]
The year 2019 is a big one for La Flor Dominicana. It marks 25 years since Litto and Ines Gomez first entered the cigar business. When Litto and Ines entered the industry, they originally founded a company called Los Libertadores. That company would eventually become La Flor Dominicana. As a result, this year the theme […]
The year 2019 marked the fourth IPCPR Trade Show for Bryan Mussard and Cattle Baron Cigars. Mussard is a well-known figure in the cattle industry who served as the President of the Montana Stockgrowers Association. Back in 2016, he decided to venture into the cigar business with his own line of cigars. To produce his […]
2019 would mark the return to the IPCPR Trade Show for Sebastien Decoppet and Cavalier Genève Cigars. After exhibiting at the IPCPR Trade Show the previous two years, Cavalier Genève took 2018 off. At the time, Decoppet was reorganizing his U.S. distribution forming a new company Cavalier Premium Cigars USA LLC. It’s known in the […]
For the fifth year in a row, we are providing a full “Post-Game Report” assessing the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers (IPCPR) Convention and Trade Show. In this report, we talk more about the show itself and give our thoughts on the impacts to the cigar industry. This year we once again did four daily […]
For the past few years, Reiner Lorenzo and HVC Cigars had been one of the best-kept secrets in the cigar industry. However, following the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, the secret seemed to get out and HVC began to make much more of a national presence. Coming into the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Lorenzo and HVC […]
Hiram & Solomon is a brand that is themed around the Freemasons with the idea the Mason brothers can get together and enjoy a premium cigar. The brand was founded by Brother George Dakrat and WB Fouad Kashouty. After originating production in the Dominican Republic, a couple of years ago the company moved production over […]
2019 marked the eighth IPCPR Trade Show for the Nashville, Tennessee-based cigar company Crowned Heads. Keeping to their Nashville roots, the Crowned Heads booth had a Nashville-roadhouse music studio flair to it. While a theme around Nashville and music has been a constant for Crowned Heads over the years, 2019 reflected some changes seen by […]
2019 was the fourth IPCPR Trade Show for Tim Wong and Pier 28 Premium Cigars. Each year, Pier 28 has been able to use the IPCPR Trade Show to launch a new release. Along the way, the company is building a very nice portfolio of high-quality cigars. As it has for the past three […]
As it has been for the ten years I have covered the IPCPR Trade Show, La Aurora Cigars was a part of the Miami Cigar and Company booth. Miami Cigar and Company is the exclusive U.S. distributor of La Aurora and the two companies have forged one of the closest partnerships in the cigar industry. […]
