Room101 is going pink for its 13th anniversary. This year Matt Booth will unveil the Room101 13th Anniversary to commemorate the occasion – complete with pink boxes and pink bands. According to a report from Cigar Aficionado, cigar itself is 100% Nicaraguan puro produced by AJ Fernandez featuring tobaccos grown on Fernandez’s farms. The cigar […]
Today Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) announced it has acquired the Room101 cigar brand from Matt Booth and has retained Booth as creative director. The acquisition is limited to Room101 cigars and accessories and does not include any of Matt Booth’s other Room101 entities. In a press release Régis Broersma, president of STG’s North America […]
Since 2018, the Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) has participated in the annual Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series of cigars. For the first three years, this cigar came from the CAO brand In 2021. Things would change as the Diesel brand from STG’s newly formed Forged Cigar Company would be given the opportunity to […]
Next month, La Gloria Cubana will introduce the La Gloria Cubana Serie S. It’s a regular production offering that will be the first regular production from La Gloria Cubana to feature a Mexican wrapper. In addition to the Mexican San Andres wrapper, the La Gloria Cubana Serie S will feature a Nicaraguan binder and a […]
Tonight Prime Time celebrates its 5 year anniversary and we are bringing in Justin Andrews from Scandinavian Tobacco Group as our special guest. We will be talking trilogies, elixirs, and sunday gravy! Plus we will be talking cigars and a whole lot going with Diesel and more. Plus we will have our Cattle Baron Steak […]
Forged Cigar Company has released its first limited edition cigar for El Rey del Mundo. It’s also the first time AJ Fernandez has worked on a blend for El Rey del Mundo. The cigar is appropriately titled El Rey Del Mundo by AJ. It’s a cigar that has already begun arriving at retailers. El Rey […]
At the start of 2021, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) made the decision to spin off several of its premium cigar brands from General Cigar Company into a separate distribution company known as Forged Cigar Company. The brands that moved into Forged included: Partagas, Diesel, Bolivar, Chillin Moose, El Rey del Mundo, and La Gloria Cubana. […]
Justin Andrews of Scandinavian Tobacco Group and Robert Caldwell of Lost & Found teamed up to create the new Bolivar Cofradia. This cigar was released in both EMS and Oscuro wrappers in mazos of five cigars. Justin and Robert were given full access to all the tobacco library available at the HATSA factory in Danlí, […]
Forged Cigar Company is adding a new value-priced large ring gauge line to complement its Chillin’ Moose line known as Bull Moose. Bull Moose is a cigar that is made exclusively with Nicaraguan Habano tobaccos. It will be available in four sizes (5 x 60, 6 x 60, 6 x 70, and 7 x 60). […]
Tonight Prime Time celebrates its 5 year anniversary and we are bringing in Justin Andrews from Scandinavian Tobacco Group as our special guest. We will be talking trilogies, elixirs, and sunday gravy! Plus we will be talking cigars and a whole lot going with Diesel and more. Plus we will have our Cattle Baron […]
