Earlier this year, Forged Cigar Company announced the third installment of the Diesel Elixir series known as the Diesel Crucible. The Elixir series had served as an annual limited limited edition release since 2019. The three installments were all previous offerings sold back when Diesel was distributed through Meier & Dutch, but for the Elixir […]
This past week, Forged Cigar Company shipped the second installment of the Diesel Sunday Gravy Series – Pecorino. Sunday Gravy is a full-time line under Diesel and will feature seasonally-released, Nicaraguan-forward smokes developed by AJ Fernandez and Justin Andrews. Plans are for blends to be released quarterly and sold until their limited supply is depleted. […]
Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S (STG) has announced it is expanding the sales team for Forged Cigar Company. This includes a naming a new regional manager for the Southern Region and the addition of new sales representatives. In a press release, Sean Hardiman, national sales manager of Forged Cigar Company said, “In the eight months since […]
There is a new limited edition La Gloria Cubana coming from Forged Cigar Company. It’s called Criollo de Oro and it’s named after a hybrid varietal used for its wrapper developed by crossing two Cuban seed tobaccos: the Criollo ’98 and the rare Cuban seed Pelo de Oro. The cigar is expected to arrive at retailers […]
At the beginning of 2021, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) announced it is dividing its portfolio of premium cigar brands. As a result, several brands will be moving into a new subsidiary known as Forged Cigar Company while other brands will remain under the existing General Cigar Company umbrella. These five brands going to Forged included: […]
A new release from Forged Cigar Company’s Partagas brand has begun to show up at retailers. It’s called the Partagas Cortado and it’s the first Connecticut Shade-wrapped offering as well as the first Nicaraguan-made Partagas to be released. Partagas Cortado features an Ecuadorian-grown Connecticut Shade wrapper over an Indonesian binder and fillers consisting of Honduran […]
Diesel Cigars has announced a new seasonal series of cigars known as Sunday Gravy. It’s a collection that has been inspired by one of the great debates of all time – gravy vs. sauce. Sunday Gravy is a full-time line under Diesel and will feature seasonally-released, Nicaraguan-forward smokes developed by AJ Fernandez and Justin Andrews. […]
The Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas line is a story that goes back to 2005. It was at that time that General Cigar decided to release a cigar containing ten year old Cameroon wrapper. The series would run in a limited production until 2009 and garnered a strong following among cigar enthusiasts. In 2009, General Cigar […]
Scandinavian Tobacco Group is set to roll out “Crucible,” the third and final release of the Diesel Elixir Trilogy limited edition series following 2019’s Diesel Hair of the Dog and 2020’s Diesel Delirium releases which both sold out within weeks of their launch dates in 2019 and 2020. Like the original Diesel Crucible, this 2021 release will be […]
Late in 2020, General Cigar Company announced a special limited edition release for the Diesel brand know as the Diesel Whiskey Row Sherry Cask Holiday Edition. For the most part, it was an offshoot of 2019’s Diesel Whiskey Row Sherry Cask but would incorporate a barber-pole style wrapper. In addition, the Holiday Edition would feature […]
