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 […]
Over the past few weeks, General Cigar Company has been informing retailers of a new limited-edition extension to the CAO Flathead line known as V21. Today the company has formally announced the details around the CAO Flathead V21 project. The CAO Flathead V21 is a follow-up to the CAO Flathead V19. While the V19 used […]
For the past few weeks, General Cigar retailers have been hearing about a cigar known as Weller by Cohiba. It’s a limited edition offering from General Cigar’s Cohiba brand that was blended especially to complement Weller Bourbon. This week the Weller by Cohiba cigar has started to make its way to retailers. “We blended Weller […]
The CAO Expedición is a cigar that was released by Scandinavian Cigar Group (STG) for the Tobacconists’ Association of America Exclusive Series in 2020. It would mark the third consecutive year that CAO would release a cigar for the TAA. Since its inception, CAO has always been a lifestyle type of brand. The CAO Expedición […]
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 re-scoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
