Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) has announced its Los Status Deluxe line has gotten a makeover. The makeover was done by Matt Booth, Justin Andrews, and STG’s Honduran Blending Team. The revamped Los Status Deluxe line will now join the Forged Cigar Company portfolio. Los Status Deluxe made an appearance at the 2022 Premium Cigar Association […]
Cigar News: STG Brings Back Evelio
William Cooper Cigar News No Comments 2022 Preview, Evelio, Meier and Dutch, News, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG
Scandinavian Tobacco Group has announced it is bringing back the Evelio brand. Evelio is described as a mild cigar that contains a sweet cap. It’s produced at the Quesada’s MATASA factory in the Dominican Republic. The cigar features an Ecuadorian wrapper over Dominican binder and fillers. It comes in four sizes (Corona, Robusto, Toro, and […]
Cigar News: STG Announces Latitude Zero Signature
William Cooper Cigar News No Comments 2022 Preview, Meier and Dutch, News, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG
Latitude Zero, a brand in the Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) portfolio that pays homage to Ecuador’s tobacco growing regions, is getting a new blend known as the Latitude Zero Signature. It’s a blend that comes from the NACSA factory in Nicaragua and is blended by Raul Disla. The blend features tobaccos from the Oliva Tobacco […]
Cigar Review: Diesel Sunday Gravy Grappa Announced
William Cooper Cigar News No Comments 2022 Preview, Diesel, Forged Cigar Company, News, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG
Diesel’s Sunday Gravy, a value-priced limited edition line of Italian culinary-inspired cigar themes, has announced its fifth installment, Grappa. Grappa an Italian-made spirit made from the pomace – the skins, seeds and stems left over from winemaking. Diesel Sunday Gravy Grappa is the latest creation by AJ Fernandez and Justin Andrews. The blend features an […]
Cigar News: General Cigar Announces Macanudo Inspirado Jamao
William Cooper Cigar News 1 Comment 2022 Preview, General, Macanudo, News, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG
Macanudo has announced its second limited edition blend in its Macanudo Inspirado series, the Macanudo Inspirado Jamao. It’s a cigar that incorporates a wrapper grown in the Dominican Republic’s Mao region using a Habano seed varietal that originated in the Jamastran region of Honduras. “For this limited edition expression of Macanudo Inspirado, we acclimated a […]
The Blog: KMA Talk Radio Episode 462 – Laurel Tilley, Macanudo Cigars
William Cooper Blog No Comments Blog, General, KMA Talk Radio, Macanudo, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG, The Blog
Each week, I have the opportunity to produce the news segment for KMA Talk Radio. On the Cigar Coop “blog,” we post replays of the shows the week following the date the show is aired. On May 28 2022, Laurel Tilley of Scandinavian Tobacco Group who represents the Macanudo brand was the special guest. Catch […]
Cigar News: Room101 13th Anniversary Announced
William Cooper Cigar News No Comments 2022 Preview, Forged Cigar Company, PCA 2022, Room101, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG
Room101 is going pink for its 13th anniversary. This year Matt Booth will unveil the Room101 13th Anniversary to commemorate the occasion – complete with pink boxes and pink bands. According to a report from Cigar Aficionado, cigar itself is 100% Nicaraguan puro produced by AJ Fernandez featuring tobaccos grown on Fernandez’s farms. The cigar […]
Cigar News: CAO BX3 Coming in July
William Cooper Cigar News No Comments 2022 Preview, CAO, General, News, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG
This July, CAO will unveil the CAO BX3. BX3 represents “three times the Brazilian tobaccos” with blends focusing on the tobaccos from the growing regions of Northeastern Brazil. The BX3 follows the CAO CX2, MX2, and LX2 releases. The BX3 features a Brazilian Mata Fina wrapper, Brazilian Arapiraca binder, and fillers from Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, […]
Cigar News: STG Acquires Room101 Cigars & Accessories and Brings Matt Booth on as Creative Director
William Cooper Cigar News 2 Comments Forged Cigar Company, News, Room 101, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG
Today Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) announced it has acquired the Room101 cigar brand from Matt Booth and has retained Booth as creative director. The acquisition is limited to Room101 cigars and accessories and does not include any of Matt Booth’s other Room101 entities. In a press release Régis Broersma, president of STG’s North America […]
Cigar Review: Diesel Disciple 2021 TAA Exclusive
William Cooper Reviews No Comments 2021 TAA Exclusive Series, 88-90, Buy One, Diesel, Forged Cigar Company, Review, Scandinavian Tobacco Group, STG, TAA
Since 2018, the Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) has participated in the annual Tobacconists Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series of cigars. For the first three years, this cigar came from the CAO brand In 2021. Things would change as the Diesel brand from STG’s newly formed Forged Cigar Company would be given the opportunity to […]