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News: J. Fuego Adds Originals Size to Connoisseur Line, Targets May Release

Jesus Fuego’s yet-to-be-shipped Connoisseur line is getting a new addition, Fuego’s popular Original size. The 5 x 44 modified Cheroot-size will be the fourth size to the line Fuego announced in March. The line uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper from Oliva Tobacco Company over a Mexican San Andrés Ligero binder and Corojo fillers from Brazil, [...]

Review: J. Fuego Edición de Familia Belicoso Fino

Jesus Fuego announced that he would be venturing into the ‘ultra-premium’ cigar market via a post on CigarBrief.com in March 2012, where he released the first details about the cigar. After occasional photos on Facebook and some samples that were stealthily given out during IPCPR provided a bit more detail, they have been released to one [...]

News: J. Fuego Shows Off 777 Minutos

J. Fuego showed off his latest creation Thursday via Twitter, the 777 Zero Minutos. The small format cigar measures 4 1/2 x 38 and comes in five pack paperboard box. While similar in size to the 5 x 44 J. Fuego Originals, Fuego said that the projects are completely different. “People had been asking for [...]

Weekly News (April 23, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This week we added a new sponsor, Defeat Prop 29. For those of you that don’t know, Prop 29 is a ballot measure in California that would raise the taxes on cigars from its current 31.73% to 54.89% of the wholesale prices. Prop 29 goes to vote on June 5, 2012 and you [...]

News: J. Fuego Shows Off New Origen Maduro Original

Jesus Fuego of J. Fuego Cigars showed off a pair of upcoming releases across various social media platforms this past week. The first was a picture of the J. Fuego Edición de Familia, a new limited edition announced on March 14 via CigarBrief.com. Edición de Familia is expected to be available in box-pressed Toro, box-pressed Belicoso and [...]

Weekly News (March 19, 2012)

Editor’s Note: And so it begins. The discussion over IPCPR media memberships, i.e. bloggers going to the trade show, started once again. David Jones of the TikiBar provided his thoughts and plenty of others chimed on Twitter. At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter that the costs are going up or if [...]

Weekly News (March 12, 2012)

Editor’s Note: March is in full swing. As has been mentioned a few times here before, this should be no surprise. In halfwheel news, we would like to welcome Prometheus as our newest sponsor. For the next few days, Brook and I will be meeting at the super secret halfwheel offices in Dallas, before I [...]

News: J. Fuego to Release Origen Maduro

Jesus Fuego announced yesterday that the Origen Maduro will be launched next week. On March 14, 2012, Fuego will be at Fox Cigar Bar in Gilbert, AZ for an event. While Fuego himself is describing this as a “soft launch,” the cigar itself has been available for the past few months at David Garofalo’s Two [...]

Review: J. Fuego 777 Corojo “Paka”

For those of you that don’t know… While at an event at Tamura’s Fine Wine & Liquor in Hawaii, J. Fuego decided to produce a limited edition of the popular 777 Corojo blend called “Paka”, which means “tobacco” or “smoke” in Hawaii. Says the people at Tamura’s: The “Paka” is based off the 777 Corojo [...]

Review: Xikar HC Series Habano Colorado Salomon Limitado (Prerelease)

Today we will be taking a look at one of the larger cigars introduced at this years IPCPR, the Xikar HC Series Salomon Limitado! Xikar has been one of the most innovative cigar accessory manufacturers since their start in the mid 1990s, the Xikar Cutter is one of the most recognizable cigar tools out there [...]