In 2020, JRE Tobacco Company would release the Aladino Cameroon. Cameroon wrapper has certainly gotten its share of attention over the past couple of years. When it comes to bringing Cameroon wrapper out of Africa, it’s the Meerapfel family that has been the main player in that market. At the same time, many others have […]
Between his career at Drew Estate and at the helm of his own cigar company Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, Steve Saka had one type of cigar that was considered a gap missing from his creations, a Connecticut Shade cigar. Connecticut Shade cigars are considered an important part of a cigar company’s offerings because they […]
In 2020, Tatuaje Cigars introduced a new permutation of the Monsters Series known as the Monster Bomb Squad (MBS). MBS was released in a single blend known as the MBS FK that was based on 2016’s Tatuaje – The Krueger blend. As many know, the Monsters Series pays homage to various classic and contemporary horror […]
Late in 2019 came word of a new installment of the La Flor Dominicana Small Batch Series. The Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch series was first introduced by La Flor Dominicana back in 2006. This was a limited release Dominican puro that used the concept of taking the best tobaccos from company owner Litto Gomez’s […]
In the past few years, the story of the transformation of the Diesel brand has simply been remarkable. A little over three years ago, Diesel has a highly popular catalog brand offering in the Meier & Dutch portfolio when the decision was made to move the brand into his sister company, General Cigar Company and […]
In 2016, Manuel Inoa and La Aurora Cigars released an extension of the popular La Aurora 107 brand known as the La Aurora 107 Cosecha 2006. This was a cigar that was significant in that it incorporated tobaccos from a 2006 vintage crop into the blend. It was a cigar that garnered both critical and […]
Back in February 2018, Mombacho Cigars President and Master Blender Claudio Sgroi was a guest on Prime Time Special Edition 24. On that show, he announced there were plans to launch a cigar called Casa Favilli that would feature a Nicaraguan Broadleaf wrapper. A few months later, a formal announcement was released to the press […]
In 2018, the company known as Casa Fernandez Cigars underwent a major rebranding. The company renamed itself to Aganorsa Leaf and then proceeded to streamline and refresh the packaging in its portfolio. This process is not something that has been done overnight as Aganorsa Leaf has slowly been implementing this. In 2020, there was a […]
Since Matt Booth departed Davidoff and came back from a brief “retirement,” he has been focused on building up his product portfolio. When he returned in 2017, Booth primarily focused on introducing new blends and lines, but that would all change in 2019 with the announcement of The Big Payback Maduro. The Big Payback is […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, J.C. Newman Cigar Company showcased a project known as Yagua which coincides with the 125th anniversary of J.C. Newman Cigar Company. What makes this cigar unique is that it is rolled without a cigar mold, but rather with the frond of a Yagua tree. The project was spearheaded by […]
