“Bullet with a Name Volume 1,” the first installment of PDR Cigars small batch project, AR Cigar Collective will be heading to retailers beginning December 17th. AR Cigar Collective is a mechanism for PDR Cigars to release cigars that for one reason or another never made it to market. Bullet with a Name Volume 1 […]
PDR Cigars has announced the release of a new small batch cigar series known as the AR Cigar Collective. It is a series that is a project that gets its name from the principals involved with it: PDR Cigars owner Abe Flores and PDR National Sales Manager Richie “Riot” Otero. According to Otero, over the […]
Michael’s Tobacco will be the exclusive home to a special limited edition offering of PDR Cigars’ Flores y Rodriguez Connecticut Valley Reserve Broadleaf Maduro. The limited edition Michael’s Exclusive will be a 6 x 60 double perfecto and will be available starting on October 15th, 2018 at both the Euless and Keller Texas locations. […]
Some changes are happening at PDR Cigars this year. Owner Abe Flores has named Richie Otero the company’s new Director of Sales. At the same time, the company is launching a new logo – which is going to permeate into some of its packaging. At the same time, the company had several new releases that were being […]
At the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, PDR Cigars expanded its El Criollito line with four new sizes – each of the four 4 1/2 inch and under in length. The new sizes include the Club (4 1/2 x 30), Perla (3 3/4 x 42), Purito (4 x 34), and Short Gordo (4 1/4 x 58). […]
At the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, PDR Cigars announced plans for a fourth installment of its A. Flores 1975 Gran Reserva series. This one adds a maduro version into the line. The A. Flores 1975 Gran Reserva Maduro will feature a San Andres Maduro wrapper over a Dominican Olor binder and Dominican Corojo fillers. Consistent […]
At the 2018 IPCPR Trade Show, PDR Cigars launched a coffee flavored offshoot of its PDR 1878 line known as PDR 1878 Roast Cafe. The cigars come in three blends: Natural Roast, Medium Roast, and Dark Roast. Each of the PDR 1878 Roast Cafe blends are coffee flavored offshoots of existing PDR 1878 blends. […]
PDR Cigars has a new Director of Sales. Today PDR has officially announced that industry veteran Richie Otero has assumed the position. Otero’s career in the cigar industry started in retail. He subsequently managed territories for Padilla Cigar Company and Caldwell Cigar Company before joining PDR Cigars in October 2017 as its Florida Territory Sales […]
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 […]
At the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show, PDR Cigars unveiled the El Trovador Maduro. As the name indicates, this is a maduro version of the original El Trovador which was introduced at the 2016 IPCPR Trade Show. El Trovador is a line for which PDR Cigars owner and master blender Abe Flores took inspiration from two sources: a recent […]
