At the 2021 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, Dapper Cigar Company launched a new line known as Union Break. Union Break consists of three blends: a Connecticut Shade, a Connecticut Broadleaf, and a barber-pole intertwining the two wrappers. The remainder of each of the blends incorporate Nicaraguan tobacco. Union Break is available in one […]
One of the companies that could lay claim to the busiest booth at the Trade Show is Plasencia Cigars. Plasencia’s booth has been like this since the company launched at the 2017 Trade Show and 2021 was no different. This was a booth bustling with a high level activity all week. It was so busy […]
ADVentura Cigars is the premium cigar brand owned by Henderson Ventura of Tabacalera William Ventura and Marcel Knobel. This year, ADVentura was one of nine cigar companies that exhibited in the Sutliff Tobacco pipe booth. Over the past 18 months, Sutliff has quietly been bringing on smaller cigar companies to handle its distribution. Each of the […]
AJ Fernandez Cigars Company was one of the cigar companies that “held the line” and didn’t focus on introducing new products. While some may be disappointed one can also look at it as a positive sign. For years, many companies like Padrón, Oliva, and Arturo Fuente have not introduced new product and have had excellent […]
At the 2021 Premium Cigar Association Trade Show, ADVentura Cigars launched a third size under The Royal Return – King’s Gold line in the form of a 44 x 6 Corona. The Royal Return is a two-blend line introduced by ADVentura Cigars in 2020. There is the Queen’s Pearl which is an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade […]
Eight years ago, a company with a lot of fanfare launched called Sindicato Cigars. The concept of Sindicato Cigars was simple – a group of top tobacconists banded together to form a company and decided they would contract directly with cigar manufacturers to produce a cigar brand. These retailers would sell the products of Sindicato […]
Coles of London may be a company many cigar enthusiasts are not familiar with. Earlier this year, Coles of London would take over the U.S. distribution for S.T. Dupont products from Davidoff of Geneva. Coles of London was already distributing S.T. Dupont’s pen business, so adding S.T. Dupont’s cigar accessories was a logical fit. What […]
Patina Cigars was one of nine cigar companies that exhibited in the Sutliff Tobacco pipe booth. Over the past 18 months, Sutliff has quietly been bringing on smaller cigar companies to handle its distribution. Each of the companies had a mini kiosk and it brought back the feel of the old House of Emilio booth […]
One of the pillars of the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show is Oliva Cigar Company. Oliva is not known to do large numbers of releases. But 2021 is a little different as this year might have had the most new releases Oliva had brought to the trade show in recent memory. Even when Oliva […]
Prime Time Special Edition 103 returns – in what we thought would be the final PCA Post Game Show of 2021. This one will be a little different as we will take things from the Cigar Coop team point of view and focus on the most important and exciting part of the trade show – […]
