Highclere Cigar Company is a project done between George Herbert, who is the 8th Earl of Carnarvon and the owner of the famed Highclere Castle Estate located in Hampshire, England; and Foundation Cigar Company’s Nicholas Melillo. In 2017, the first Highclere Castle cigar was released, an Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapped cigar meant to be reminiscent […]
The Art of Magic is a new limited edition project started by Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group (VRCG). In 2017, Vintage Rock-A-Feller Cigar Group was acquired by Kevin Schweitzer, who at the time was a Wall Street trader who had been a cigar enthusiast for 25 years. At that time, Schweitzer became the company’s sole owner and […]
In 2020, Villiger Cigars would release its first exclusive cigar to the Tobacconists Association of America (TAA). Globally, Villiger is one of the larger tobacco companies in the world and has primarily focused on machine-made products. The company does also make premium handmade cigars. For many years, Villiger has also sold its products in the […]
It’s hard to believe that it was back in 2013 when Rafael Nodal and Hank Bischoff rebranded their company Oliveros Cigars to Boutique Blends Cigars. At that time, Oliveros had recently launched two new brands – Aging Room and Swag. These two brands became the more popular brands in the Oliveros portfolio, so the decision […]
At the start of 2021, J.C. Newman Cigar Company launched a new brand known as Havana Q. The Havana Q is described as a cousin to J.C. Newman’s popular Quorum brand. Quorom is a brand that has been in the J.C. Newman portfolio for quite some time and its a value-priced line of Cuban sandwich […]
The year 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of JR Cigar. Technically the start of JR Cigar goes back to 1970 when Jack Rothman (thus the name JR) opened his first cigar store in New York City. It was a year later when Jack’s son Lew Rothman was approached by a customer asking if he could have […]
Over the years, cigar companies have released cigars to commemorate milestones or occasions. Sometimes these are limited edition cigars, annual releases, or even regular production cigars. Rocky Patel Premium Cigars is no exception. In 1995, an entertainment lawyer named Rocky Patel along with Phil Zanghi would found a company called Indian Tabac. Eventually Patel and […]
The CAO Expedición is a cigar that was released by Scandinavian Cigar Group (STG) for the Tobacconists’ Association of America Exclusive Series in 2020. It would mark the third consecutive year that CAO would release a cigar for the TAA. Since its inception, CAO has always been a lifestyle type of brand. The CAO Expedición […]
This month, you may notice AJ Fernandez’s New World Puro Especial will have a new look. The cigar isn’t changing, but the company has begun rolling out a new band and box design. The idea with the revamped design was to have a consistent scheme with the other three blends under the New World brand, […]
Protocol Cigars probably is the best example of the “Little Engine That Could” in the cigar industry. The company has been around for six years and has built up a portfolio (at press time) of nine core line blends and a very loyal fan base following. At the same time, the company has used that […]
