In 2021, Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) made a major change in its portfolio of premium cigar brands. Previously, the premium cigar brands were under General Cigar Company, but 2021 saw STG split off several brands that were under General Cigar Company into a separate subsidiary known as Forged Cigar Company. Forged Cigar Company would have […]
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 […]
Today we take a look at another blend under Tatuaje Cigars’ T110 series, the Tatuaje T110 Capa Especial. The story of the T110 goes back to 2005 when Tatuaje released a powerhouse of a cigar known as the Tatuaje T110 (which is believed to mean Thermonuclear 110 with 110 being the approximate length of the […]
At the end of 2020, Cigar Coop named the Toro size of The American by J.C. Newman Cigar Company as our #1 Cigar of the Year. While The American was the resurrection of an old brand owned by J.C. Newman Cigar Company, in a lot of ways this was a groundbreaking cigar. It would be […]
It was in 1995 when Arturo Fuente Cigars would unveil their landmark cigar, the Fuente Fuente OpusX. What made OpusX such a significant project is that it proved to the world an ultra-premium Dominican puro cigar could be made with a Dominican-grown wrapper. The other thing that is significant about OpusX is that it is […]
“What’s old is new” is not a radical new concept with the premium cigar industry. Over the years, we have seen brands discontinued only to later make a comeback with a lot of fanfare. Such was the case when Alec Bradley Cigar Company brought back the Alec Bradley Trilogy line. Trilogy gets its name from […]
In 2020, a new company called Stallone Cigars made its debut in the U.S. market. Stallone Cigars is a company founded by Tony Barrios, a cutting horse competitor who hails from a tobacco family in Venezuela. For several years, Stallone Cigars has been sold in the International (non-U.S.) market. Stallone Cigars launched in the U.S. […]
In 2021, there was a special limited offshoot of the VegaFina 1998 line known as the VegaFina 1998 Vintage 1. The VegaFina 1998 was first released in 1999 to the European market. It was a cigar that paid homage to the year the VegaFina brand was launched. A year later the VegaFina 1998 would be […]
In 2020, Jake Wyatt Cigar Company would do a soft-launch of a new cigar blend known as Lithium. J/the ake Wyatt Cigar Company had launched earlier in the year. Throughout most of 2020, the company went to market with five blends under its Gourmet Line. The soft launch for Lithium would allow cigar enthusiasts to […]
Each February comes the celebration of the Chinese New Year, and as we have seen in recent years, it has become quite popular to release a cigar to commemorate the occasion. In the United States market, Davidoff has the best known of these releases. As we have seen over the past few years, there have […]
