General Cigar Company has announced the Macanudo Gold Label is making its annual return. For 2021, the series will include a new 6 x 60 limited edition Gigante size as a part of the collection. Originally released in 2022, the Macanudo Gold Label gets its name from its golden brown wrapper. The wrapper is a […]
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 […]
Each week, I have the opportunity to produce the news segment for KMA Talk Radio. On the Cigar Coop “blog,” we will now post replays of the shows the week following the date the show is aired. The April 10th show was a little different as I had the opportunity to co-host Episode 416 of […]
General Cigar has announced the seventh blend released under its Macanudo Inspirado line, the Macanudo Inspirado Brazilian Shade. General Cigar Company’s Macanudo brand brings a contemporary look and feel. It has also served as an innovation platform with the Macanudo brand. In this case, as the name indicates the cigar features a proprietary Brazilian-grown Connecticut […]
General Cigar Company has announced a new limited edition Cohiba. The Cohiba Serie M is collaboration between General’s Cohiba Team and the El Titán de Bronze Cigar Factory in Little Havana, Miami, Florida, making it the first U.S. made Cohiba. It’s a project that marks a return to El Titán de Bronze for Cohiba brand […]
In 2020, the Diesel Cigar brand would introduce a new regular production offering known as the Diesel Estelí Puro. Diesel is a brand that has a long history with Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG). It’s a brand that STG has partnered with AJ Fernandez on for many years. In 2017 STG moved the brand into the […]
General Cigar Company has announced the Punch Signature has undergone a packaging change. Featuring the same blend, the new-look Punch Signature will begin reaching stores this month. “Punch Signature represents the best of Central American cigars. It has a great blend and a medium-plus profile that people really love. This blend was out of stock […]
General Cigar Company’s Macanudo Inspirado White brand is adding two new sizes. Today the company announced the addition of a Corona (5 1/2 x 42) and a Cigarillo (4 3/16 x 32) size to the Macanudo White Family. The new sizes bring the number of vitolas offered in the line to eight. In a press […]
Agile Cigar Reviews are cigar assessments where we 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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
The CAO Zócalo, a limited edition cigar released in 2018 will be making a return – this time as a regular production cigar. The Zócalo was CAO’s first cigar to feature a Mexican wrapper. When it was released two years ago, it was released in a 6 x 60 format. The 6 x 60 returns […]
