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 […]
April Fool’s Day has typically been a time many in the cigar industry turn their creativity to humor. When covering the cigar news, it usually means sham news stories in an attempt to fool you. While there was at least one April Fool’s news story that was so well done that it fooled us, for […]
United Cigar is the distribution arm owned by David Garofalo. Garofalo is best known as being a founder of Two Guys Smoke Shop as well as The Cigar Authority podcast. United Cigar distributes several brands – and perhaps best known are the brands of Nelson Alfonso’s Selected Tobacco (Atabey, Byron, and Bandolero). United Cigar always […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Selected Tobacco launched two new sizes under its Byron Serie Siglo XX line, the Byron Serie Siglo XX Venecianos and the Byron Serie Siglo XX Mesolongis .This brings the total number of vitolas offered in the Byron Serie XX line to four. The Venecianos is a 6 1/2 x […]
At the 2019 IPCPR Trade Show, Selected Tobacco launched two new sizes under its Atabey line, the Atabey Idolos and Atabey Sabios. This brings the total number of vitolas offered in the Atabey line to eleven. Atabey Idolos introduces a 4 x 55 vitola into the Atabey line while Sabios introduces a Robusto-sized 5 […]
One of the major players in the cigar industry has said based on the current plans by the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) for its CigarCon event that he is pulling out. David Garofalo today confirmed on the July 6th edition of his The Cigar Authority podcast that PCA 2020 will go on without him. Garofalo […]
United Cigar’s La Gianna Havana brand has received a packaging upgrade. The new packaging is coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the brand. The company says the new packaging is now shipping nationwide. La Gianna Havana was originally released in 1994. At the time, David Garofalo, owner of Two Guys Smoke Shop in New Hampshire […]
United Cigars has announced it is launching a new collaboration series called Series Unidas. The first installment of this series will be done in collaboration with Hammer + Sickle cigars and is scheduled to hit retail shelves in May. United Cigars is actually no stranger to teaming up with leading manufacturers. In conjunction with Two […]
United Cigar has announced it has taken proactive measures to prevent the counterfeiting of the most premium line it distributes, Atabey. In a press release, Oliver Nivaud, Director of Sales for United Cigars said: Over the last year we have heard whispers of counterfeit or unbanded Atabeys. Regretfully, these whispers have turned into a […]
United Cigars has announced the release of the 2013 vintage edition of its Byron 19th Century Grand Poemas. “This is a beautifully blended cigar offering richer notes of cedar and molasses,” said Oliver Nivaud, Director of Sales at United Cigars in a press release. “After resting these cigars for five years, post roll, you can […]
