Weekly News (September 10, 2012)

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Editor’s Note: As will be the case with halfwheel, the post-IPCPR lag seems to have settled down and the industry seems to be getting back into a pace of normalcy. This includes both the shipping of cigars that were introduced at IPCPR, as well as the overall state of the news. Oliva Takes Over Padilla [...]

News: Illusione to Add Epernay L’Excellence

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Dion Giolito is adding the tenth size to the Illusione Epernay line, L’Excellence—a Churchill that he claims is his favorite size in the line. As first reported by Gregory Mottola, Epernay L’Excellence will debut in November with a retail price of $9.50. The news comes after an IPCPR show where Giolito introduced nothing new, despite [...]

The Consensus: 2011 Awards

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For the 2010 rendition of this concept, click here to see Brian Hewitt’s work. Before anyone starts, I started this long before Bill Berris posted his rendition of this a few days at Cigar Snapshot. (Bill’s serves as a interesting sample of this, although there are noticeable differences beyond population size.) The concept was simple, [...]

IPCPR 2011: Illusione

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And it was a big year for Dion. Back in February, Dion Giolito dropped quite a bombshell indicating that he would be launching a Maduro version of his core line of cigars. But Dion wasn’t done, he wasn’t even close. New packaging on Cruzado, return of a folklored cigar, an extension to Epernay, and that [...]

Weekly News (April 4, 2011)

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Apologies for this late edition of cigar news. Another somewhat quiet week as far as new products go. TAA went on in Cabo this past week and this week brings the Nicaraguan Cigar Fest, I don’t believe there’s anything scheduled for next week. April Fools was relatively quiet with no Candela Liga Privada attempts, although [...]

Review: Illusione Epernay Le Matin

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For those of you that don’t know. Illusione is releasing some very interesting cigars in the near future (including two new Lanceros with Maduro and Candela wrappers). However, one of the most interesting recent releases is the Epernay Le Matin, which includes a few firsts for the company. First and foremost, this vitola is the [...]