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Review: Alec Bradley Filthy Hooligan

In January of 2013, Alec Bradley announced a new release for St. Patrick’s Day, the Dirty Hooligan. Based on the popular Black Market blend, it uses a Candela wrapper from Nicaragua and limited to only 2,000 boxes of 22 cigars. We gave the information in a news story: Alec Bradley has informed retailers of the newest [...]

News: Alec Bradley Renaming Dirty Hooligan Project

The recently announced Alec Bradley Black Market Dirty Hooligan cigar is getting a new name just weeks before its March 5th release date, as the original name used a word that has become increasingly pre-empted by another manufacturer. Now known as the Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan, the name was changed as a “gesture [...]

News: Alec Bradley Black Market Dirty Hooligan Coming in March

Alec Bradley has informed retailers of the newest edition of its Black Market series, the Black Market Dirty Hooligan, a Candela cigar created for St. Patrick’s Day. The cigar, which retails for $8.00 or $176.00 for a box of 22 cigars. While certain details remain unknown, the Dirty Hooligan will be a limited edition Toro [...]

Press Release: Best Cigar Prices Releases Exclusive New Cigar, the 2012 Limited

November 14, 2012 (Drums, PA) — BestCigarPrices.com, operated by New Global Marketing, Inc., recently released its latest exclusive house brand cigar, the 2012 Limited. Best Cigar Prices worked closely with Alec Bradley to create the blend for the 2012 Limited Edition cigar. This commemorative stogie was handmade in Honduras and is a medium to full [...]

Press Release: Mad/Dash Adds Alec Bradley Cigars to Client List

October 18, 2012 — Whether one is an outright cigar devotee, or only occasional puffer, you would have had to live under a rock the past decade not to take note of Alec Bradley Cigars’ trajectory rise as one of the award winning boutique cigar companies. And like most in the cigar world (consumers and trade alike) [...]

Redux: Alec Bradley Fine & Rare Toro

One of the more talked about cigars of the 2011 IPCPR show in Las Vegas was the Alec Bradley Fine & Rare. It employed ten different types of tobacco, including seven different fillers, which the company boasted as being the only cigar on the market to do that. It was also the company’s first attempt [...]

Weekly News (March 26, 2012)

Editor’s Note: Today is a slightly different note. Legendary sports historian Bert Sugar passed away yesterday at 75. Bert was a noted boxing historian and as a fan of boxing, his insight and memory was remarkable. Bert was also a cigar smoker, a noted cigar smoker. Need proof? Every picture of him on the first [...]

Review: Alec Bradley Fine & Rare Toro

Before the ratings that came in early 2012, Alec Bradley made quite a bit of noise for itself in 2011, just not for Presnado. At IPCPR 2011, one of the most talked about cigars was the Fine & Rare, a limited edition cigar that contained 10 different types of tobacco and was sold out rather [...]

News: La Palina Ships KB

Late last night, La Palina received their shipment of their new Petit Corona (4 1/4 x 40), the KB, short for Kill Bill. The cigar is a play on the name of company head Bill Paley, grandson of the company’s founder, Samuel Paley. The KB is part of La Palina’s El Diaro line, which is [...]

Weekly News (March 5, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This is the one week of year where Cuba is allowed to dominate cigar news with no apologies. The XIV Festival del Habano took place last week and dominated the discourse of cigar news. There weren’t any major surprises, but there was quite a bit of news. March is quietly one of the [...]