In January 2017, General Cigar Company added two new blends under its Toraño Vault line. The Vault line has been one of the focus lines under the Toraño ever since General acquired the brands of Toraño Family Cigars back in 2014. It was in 2011 when the Toraño Vault line made its debut under the moniker “Blends from the Vault”. […]
Last month, we reported on a new release from General Cigar known as the Partagas Heritage. The cigar has now officially been nationally launched and today General revealed some more details around the project. “We set out to create a retrospective blend that celebrated the very best of Partagas to date, and took great pride […]
Earlier this year, I paid a visit to General Cigar Company’s operations in the Dominican Republic. General Cigar Company is one of the largest handmade premium cigar companies in the world. It would not only be this author’s first visit to General Cigar’s operations, but also this author’s first visit to the Dominican Republic. The […]
Agile Cigar Reviews replace what we termed “Assessment Updates”. The concept is the same, but the name is different. Agile Cigar Reviews 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 […]
British American Tobacco (BAT) has announced it will be removing Dunhill Cigar and Pipe Tobacco from its brand. The move appears to mean the end to of the oldest names in cigar and pipe tobacco. Dunhill is currently owned by tobacco giant British American Tobacco, a tobacco giant largely focused in the cigarette business. While […]
Foundry Tobacco Company is once again bringing new life to an old brand. Today the subsidiary under General Cigar announced it is bringing back a re-imaged version of the legendary Jamaican brand, the Temple Hall Estates Collection. The new Temple Hall Estates Collection becomes the third major installment of the FTC Heritage Series – […]
This Spring, General Cigar will formally launch a new offering under its Partagas brand known as the Partagas Heritage. According to Jhonys Diaz, Vice President of Operations at The General Cigar Dominicana factory, the blend for the Partagas Heritage features a Honduran Olancho San Agustin (OSA) wrapper. The wrapper itself was developed by Nestor Placencia for General […]
Torano has released two new additions into its Torano Vault line. The company has added the Torano Vault E-021 (also called Torano Blue) and the Torano Vault W-009 (also called Torano Yellow). Both cigars are currently en-route to retailers. These two new additions bring the total number of offerings in the Vault line to six. Torano Vault was a line […]
General Cigar has announced the debut of the new Punch Gran Puro Nicaragua line. It’s a new maduro offering that the company describes as a “Nicaraguan-forward” blend. The cigar features a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and filler. The line will be available in four sizes with pricing under $7.00 per cigar. Production is […]
Jack is back – to stay. Jack Torano, who rejoined the Torano Cigar brand earlier this year as a consultant will be now officially joining the General Cigar team as Brand Ambassador beginning January 1st, 2017. It was in 2011 when Torano joined his cousins Carlos and Charlie Torano in the cigar business as Marketing Manager at Torano Family […]
