News: Davidoff Price Increase Set for February

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In what has been a week of price increase announcements, Oettinger Davidoff Group has confirmed there will be a ten cent ($.10) increase to MSRP on almost all of their facings which include AVO, Camacho, Cusano, Davidoff, Griffin’s, Winston Churchill, Zino and others. Davidoff has began to inform retailers that the price increase is set [...]

Weekly News (June 27, 2011)

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Busy week, slow week, busy week, slow week. Or at least that’s how I’d like to think of it. The reality is the weeks keep getting busier as we now sit (less than) three weeks out from the IPCPR trade show in Las Vegas. Companies are beginning to announce the last of their show plans, [...]

Lancero50 Redux

Some Random Thoughts… Lanceros are a Pain in the Ass to Photograph — Or at least if you try to stand them up. They are long and thin. Light enough for any bit of wind to pick them up and blow over, and a tiny base makes it difficult for them to even stand up. [...]

Review: Cusano 15th Anniversary Lancero

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It’s another one of these attempts to find a cigar that many never knew existed. I think from that aspect, the Cusano 15th is probably a great candidate. One size, a small company and little info. It came at the end of Dom Rey’s independence, partially helping the relative quiet nature of this — so [...]

Weekly News (April 18, 2011)

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Who said April was a slow cigar news month? After the jump is a massive news post with perhaps more release announcements than any other week besides IPCPR. I’m not sure what’s going on in the middle of May, but there sure are a lot of cigars coming out then. Anyways, after the jump, Viaje, [...]

Ten Questions for 2011

Screw top ten lists… Okay, maybe not. My list will be out at some point for all four of you that care, but in the mean time, the important one. Without a doubt, 2010 has been an interesting time for cigars and 2011 has the potential to be even more interesting. Disclaimers: These aren’t in [...]

Weekly News (November 29, 2010)

The Tatuaje Anarchy went on pre-order at Smoke Inn this past Friday, orders should start arriving around December 10th. Alec Bradley gave out more information regarding their upcoming New York line. Cusano has taken over U.S. distribution for Heavenly Cigars. Toraño has filed opposition to MATASA/SAG Import’s Quesada Tributo name. You can read more about [...]

The winner of the five-pack of Flor de las Antillas Lanceros has been announced.