La Palina Cigars will introduce the tenth installment of its annual Goldie series. This one is a 6 1/2 x 48 Prominente size. While La Palina has launched its annual Goldie release at the PCA (IPCPR) Trade Show, this year the cigar will be an exclusive to those retailers attending the 2021 PCA Trade […]
La Palina Cigars will introduce the ninth installment of its annual Goldie series. This one is a large 6 1/2 x 56 called the Laguito No. 6., a size made popular in Cuba. The announcement was first made to Cigar Aficionado. The Goldie line was created as a tribute to Goldie Drell Paley, the wife […]
The La Palina Silver Label is going regular production. The cigar was originally released in 2019 as an exclusive to the Tobacconists Association of America and becomes La Palina’s fourth consecutive TAA to go regular production. Originally released in a Toro (6 1/2 x 52) size to the TAA, the same size returns along with […]
Back in April, La Palina Cigars teamed up with Room101 Cigars to debut a program called Cigar Lockdown. Now the two companies have teamed up again and this time have added Rocky Patel Premium Cigars and Oliva Cigars and will debut Cigar Lockdown II. It’s a virtual event designed to also help support brick and […]
In 2019 La Palina Cigars released its fourth exclusive release to the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA), the La Palina Silver Label. It was also the third consecutive year that La Palina unveiled a new blend as a part of the TAA Exclusive Series. At the time it was announced, it was billed as the […]
Tonight La Palina Cigars and Room101 Cigars will team up for a live virtual event called “Cigar Lockdown.” ]The event will support a program that the two companies have launched to help support brick and mortar tobacconists during the COVID-19 crisis. The COVID-19 crisis has seen government orders that have resulted in some retail stores […]
Effective today, La Palina Cigars has taken over distribution for Room101 Cigars. This past weekend, word of this announcement unofficially surfaced. The announcement was confirmed this morning in statements by both parties to Cigar Aficionado. Previously, Room101’s distribution was handled by Down & Back LLC, the company owned and operated by Robert Caldwell of Caldwell […]
The La Palina Goldie Churchill, the eighth installment of the La Palina Goldie Series has now arrived at retailers. The cigar was originally showcased at the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show as the La Palina Goldie Julieta, but since then has been given a new name. The Churchill is the same 7 x 48 cigar that […]
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 rescoring or giving a score for the first time. It might be a blend we […]
While this was the 10th IPCPR Trade Show for Cigar Coop, it was also the 10th IPCPR Trade Show for Bill Paley and La Palina Cigars since he resurrected his family’s brand name. It’s been interesting to watch La Palina’s evolution over these past ten years. Last year I noted that when La Palina launched […]
