Saga Cigars is a line launched by the Reyes family back in 2014. The line made its debut under the Reyes’ family’s Corporacion Cigar Export (CCE) company. Over the past year, the company has been renamed “De Los Reyes” cigars. While last year CCE shared a booth with Royal Gold Cigars, this year the company had its […]
In 1935, Alonso Menendez and Jose Manuel Pepe Garcia started a brand in Cuba inspired by the Alexandre Dumas novel, The Count of Montecristo appropriately titled Montecristo. 2015 now marks 80 years since that iconic brand was created. On the eve of the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis USA held a gala event at the Bourbon […]
Tubo offerings have pretty much been a staple of the Camacho line. At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show in New Orleans, Camacho showed off its first tubo offering to its Camacho Ecuador line. The Camacho Ecuador Robusto Tubo will house a 5 x 50 Camacho Ecuador cigar. The new Robusto Tubo is expected to ship […]
The 2015 IPCPR Trade Show marked the second one for Las Cumbres Tabaco, the company launched last year by Jose Blanco and his wife Emma Viktorsson. This was a very busy show for the company as it showcased three new offerings: the new Freyja line, the new Senorial Maduro line, and the lancero line extension to Senorial. While Freyja […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Ciguardian launched a new line of humidification products known as Humi-Lube. The Humi-Lube line includes, humidification solution, humidification crystals, and humidiers. The line itself also features a 1950s automotive retro-theme on the packaging. The Humi-Lube humidification solution will be offered in three sizes – 8, 16, and 32 ounce […]
One can certainly make the argument that the My Father Cigars’ Flor de las Antillas has been one of the most successful cigars to capture Cigar Aficionado’s Cigar of the Year. Flor de las Antillas was released in 2012 and the Toro size would win the Cigar Aficionado’s top honor at the end of the […]
The Regius Seleccion Orchant is returning for 2015, but this year’s series will see a third vitola. At the 2014 IPCPR Trade Show Regius Cigars unveiled the new size of this series – a 5 x 48 vitola called the Regius Seleccion Orchant Hermoso/ The Regius Seleccion Orchant is an annual limited production release by Regius. The Selection Orchant […]
Last month, Camacho introduced its new American Barrel Aged line – a line of cigars featuring mostly American tobaccos along with a leaf of tobacco aged in a bourbon barrel. The Camacho American Barrel Aged was front and center and the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show. For those who visited the Davidoff booth, there was one […]
It’s been over ten months since General Cigar acquired the brands of Torano Family Cigars. For the most part, the Torano has remained quite quiet since this was incorporated into the General portfolio. While there was some speculation there would be a major push around Torano, this was not the case. However, there was one announcement made at […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Altadis USA introduced a line extension to its H. Upmann – The Banker line. The H. Upmann – The Banker Basis Point No. 2 becomes the fourth vitola in the line introducing a 6 1/8 x 52 sized bellicose into the line. The Basis Point No.2 is slated to […]
