Today we conclude our series reviewing the nine cigars of the Tobacconist Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series with the La Palina Bronze Label Toro. The cigars in this series are produced by leading manufacturers and brand owners to be sold exclusively by TAA retail members. For La Palina, 2017 was the second consecutive year […]
In 2017, Crowned Heads released the Four Kicks Maduro, a regular production maduro extension to the popular Four Kicks line. When Crowned Heads launched in 2011, the company’s debut release was Four Kicks – an Ecuadorian Habano blend coming out of Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr.’s Tabacalera La Alianza. Four Kicks Maduro is the third blend released […]
Altadis U.S.A. has amassed a large portfolio of brands, with some more active than others. One of the more dormant brands over the past five years has been the Trinidad brand. Like several of Altadis U.S.A.’s brands, it has a counterpart in the Habanos S.A. portfolio (after all, Altadis U.S.A’s parent company Imperial brands owns […]
The Oscar Maduro is a release that comes from Oscar Valladares Tobacco and Company. The company’s founder Oscar Valladares made a name for himself when he collaborated with Jim Robinson to produce the very popular Leaf by Oscar series. In 2016, Valladares decided to lend his name to a product under his own company’s umbrella […]
El Borracho is a cigar that comes from Ian Reith‘s Dapper Cigar Company. Reith is a cigar enthusiast with background in the Information Technology (IT) sector. After falling in love with cigars, he set out to take things to the next level – first learning as much as he could about the industry and then eventually […]
Late in 2017, came word that Cubanacan Cigars was repackaging and re-launching its self-titled premium cigar line. It was the company’s first major announcement in nearly two years. In 2015, the company separated with Hirochi Robaina and Omar González-Alemán resulting in the distribution of the HR and Soneros lines through Cubanacan coming to an end. […]
At the 2015 IPCPR Trade Show, Global Premium Cigars introduced its first limited production line known as the 1502 XO. This was an ambitious project by company CEO Enrique Sanchez Icaza in that he built a blend around 18-year-old tobacco that he was able to secure. The cigar was first launched in a Toro size, […]
In 2017, Davidoff Cigars released a special limited edition culebra offering known as the Davidoff Culebras Limited Edition. A culebra is a group of three panatelas twisted together to form a snake-like entity. The origins of the culebra can be traced back to Cuba, but there are many conflicting stories about the how the creation of […]
The Kristoff TAA Exclusive 49 is a cigar by Glen Case’s Kristoff Cigars that is a part of several new exclusive releases that have been made available to the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) by several manufacturers for 2017. While this is Kristoff’s first official TAA Exclusive cigar, it is not Kristoff’s first go around […]
Late last year, JRE Tobacco started to soft launch the Aladino Maduro, an extension to the company’s signature line, Aladino to a group of its select retailers. JRE Tobacco is a company headed up by legendary Julio R. Eiroa and his son Justo Eiroa. It was back in 2016, when the father-son duo launched JRE Tobacco. […]
