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 […]
Back in 2011, Quesada Cigars introduced its Oktoberfest line. The intent of this line was for Quesada to deliver a cigar blend that could be paired with your favorite malt beverage. This is a limited-edition line that has been released in an assortment of different sizes, an assortment of different blends, and even made in […]
In 2019, Black Label Trading Company announced it was releasing an offshoot of its Last Rites line known as Viaticum. At the time, Black Label Trading Company was celebrating its sixth anniversary and brand owner James Brown wanted to release something special to coincide with the milestone. In this case, he opted to take his […]
At the end of 2019, one of the more surprising stories that hit the news was the acquisition of the Fonseca brand by My Father Cigars from the Quesada family. The Fonseca brand was established in Cuba by Don Francisco Fonseca. The Dominican version of the Fonseca brand has been made by the Quesada family […]
