Our #19 cigar is a collaboration between General Cigar’s Cohiba brand and W.L. Weller.
2023 Cigar of the Year Countdown (Coop’s List) #19: Weller by Cohiba 2022

Our #19 cigar is a collaboration between General Cigar’s Cohiba brand and W.L. Weller.
Scandinavian Tobacco Group is continuing to roll out releases for the upcoming Christmas and Holiday Season. Today, the company announced a limited edition, ultra-premium humidor offering for its Cohiba brand, the Cohiba Biometric Humidor. The Biometric humidor is finished with red and black lacquer with metallic branding and hardware. It also can be opened either […]
General Cigar has released a four-cigar holiday sampler under its Punch brand. The sampler contains four Toro-sized cigars from Punch’s core portfolios. The cigars are: Punch Clásico EMS Pita: 6 1/8 x 50 Punch Gran Puro Pico Bonito: 6 x 50 Punch Signature Pita: 6 x 50 Punch Gran Puro Nicaragua Toro: 6 x 54 […]
General Cigar is releasing two samplers around its Macanudo brand: The Macaundo Vintage Four Pack and the Macanudo Perfect Sampler. The Macanudo Four Pack consists of two Macanudo Vintage 2010 cigars and two Macanudo Vintage Maduro 2013. Macanudo Vintage 2010 Toro Grande: 6 5/8 x 54 Macanudo Vintage 2010 Torpedo: 6 1/4 x 52 […]
General Cigar has announced it has begun shipping a four-pack sampler of four CAO Toro-sized cigars known as the CAO Premier 54s. The “54” gets the name in that all four of the cigars are 6 x 54 Toros. These cigars include:: CAO Maduro CAO Cameroon CAO Consigliere CAO BX3 Pricing for the CAO Premier […]
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 […]
Once again, General Cigar’s Macanudo brand is teaming up with Napa Valley’s Flint Knoll Winery to release the Macanudo Estate Reserve Flint Knoll No. 2. Like the original Macanudo Estate Reserve Flint Knoll release, the cigar contains a binder leaf that was aged in Flint Knoll French Oak wine barrels. The blend for the Macanudo […]
General Cigar has announced it has released a limited edition offering under its Sancho Panza blend. With the new Sancho Panza Limited Edition, General Cigar continues to build on the brand, which had a relaunch in 2022. General Cigar says the cigar is now available. In a press release, Matt Wilson, brand manager for Sancho […]
In 2022 Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) decided to give the Sancho Panza brand a makeover. If you aren’t familiar with Sancho Panza, it is a brand named after a character from the literary work Don Quixote. It is a brand that has its roots in Cuba going back to 1848, but STG now has the […]
L General Cigar has started informing retailers of the latest limited-edition extension to its CAO Flathead brand, the CAO Flathead V23. This is the third installment in the “Flathead V” series that focuses on larger ring gauge offerings. The CAO Flathead V23 follows up the CAO Flathead V19 and CAO Flathead V21. Made at the […]