General Cigar Company has announced that it will be teaming up with Cigar CityBrewing to create “Cigar City Brewing Maduro by Punch.” It’s a release that will be available at select liquor chains across the U.S. starting this month, with a larger rollout scheduled for early 2022. The Cigar City Brewing Maduro by Punch is […]
Earlier this year, General Cigar Company released the seventh installment under its Macanudo Inspirado Series, the Macanudo Inspirado Brazilian Shade. The Macanudo Inspirado Series is a series of cigars under General Cigar Company’s Macanudo brand that brings a contemporary look and feel. It’s also served as an innovation platform for the Macanudo brand – incorporating […]
General Cigar has announced a new limited-edition line called 60. The first release will be called the Torque and it will mark what General says is their largest size to date – a massive 8 x 60 vitola. Produced at STG Estelí in Nicaragua, the CAO 60 Torque features a Honduran Habano wrapper, Nicaraguan Habano […]
General Cigar Company has announced a new limited edition, brick and mortar exclusive offering known as the Punch Bento Box. This will contain the three Punch “Year of the Zodiac” releases from 2019, 2020, and 2021. Punch Bento Box includes: 20 Punch Egg Roll Cigars (2019 release) 12 Punch Chop Suey Cigars (2020 release) 10 […]
Earlier this year, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) spun several of its premium cigar brands under General Cigar Company into a new distribution company known as Forged Cigar Company. This year, what is still called General Cigar Company includes five very strong brands: Macanudo, CAO, Cohiba, Hoyo de Monterrey, and Punch. These brands have all […]
At the start of 2021, General Cigar Company announced the launch of a new limited edition series under its CAO brand known as Arcana. The Arcana series is described as one that features unique tobacco forms and techniques from various regions around the world. The first cigar of this series is called the Mortal Coil. […]
At the end of 2020, CAO re-released the Vision with a few tweaks. The original cigar, released before CAO’s acquisition by the Scandinavian Tobacco Group, was a Dominican blend cigar in an interesting box that was fitted with LED lighting that glowed blue when you opened the lid. The new CAO Vision is also a […]
Earlier this year, General Cigar announced a limited edition project known as the Cohiba Serie M. The “M” stands for the fact that this is a cigar made in Miami at the El Titan de Bronze factory, marking the first time a Cohiba has been made in the United States. For Cohiba brand ambassador Sean […]
While it’s slightly late, General Cigar has announced a cigar to commemorate the 180th anniversary of the Punch brand. The cigar is appropriately called the Punch Aniversario. The Punch brand was created in 1840 as a cigar for export to the United Kingdom. Today, the U.S. version of the brand is produced primarily in Honduras. […]
General Cigar has announced the third blend under its M by Macanudo portfolio called M by Macanudo Espresso. It is a cigar that also features the Macanudo brand’s first barber pole offering. M by Macanudo is a line under the Macanudo brand of infused offerings. The line was introduced in 2018 with the original M […]
