Today we review the 1948 Toro. This is a cigar comemmorates La Palina owner/chairman Bill Paley’s 75th birthday.
La Palina 1948 Toro | Cigar Review

Today we review the 1948 Toro. This is a cigar comemmorates La Palina owner/chairman Bill Paley’s 75th birthday.
At PCA 2024, La Palina Cigars had some line extensions to both its Goldie and 125 Años lines
La Palina Cigars is introducing a new size to its 125 Años line in the form of a 5 1/2 x 54 Robusto.
La Palina Nicaragua – The Connecticut: This is a cigar that has been re-blended, re-packaged, and is now produced at Joya de Nicaragua.
This cigar is a spinoff from Cigar Coop’s 2011 Cigar of the Year, the La Palina El Diario Robusto.
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In 2009, Bill Paley decided to resurrect the brand his grandfather created, La Palina Cigars. That year La Palina would attend its first IPCPR Trade Show, and since then, La Palina has been a staple of IPCPR/PCA Trade Shows. If I count correctly, La Palina would now have displayed at 14 IPCPR/PCA Trade Shows. La […]
La Palina Chairman Bill Paley turned 75 years young this year, and at the 2023 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, La Palina Cigars introduced a cigar to mark the occasion. The cigar is called the La Palina 1948 – and it pays homage to the year Paley was born. The La Palina 1948 is […]
At the 2022 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, La Palina Cigars announced the return of two installments of its La Palina Goldie Series. This includes the Prominente and the cigar that was the second release of the Goldie, the Laguito No. 5. The Prominente is being dubbed “Series 3.”. This is the third consecutive […]
La Palina Cigars introduced its Mr. Sam line into its portfolio ten years ago. At the 2023 Premium Cigar Association Trade Show, La Palina introduced a fifth size to Mr. Sam in the form of a 7 5/8 x 49 Double Corona. Mr. Sam is a nod to the original founder of the La Palina […]