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News: Guillermo León Ambassador Heads to California

The Guillermo León by La Aurora Ambassador will begin shipping next week with the cigar being first offered to retailers in California. Miami Cigar & Co. confirmed to halfwheel that the 4 1/2 x 38/60 Perfecto shape will finally be available. The cigar first made public appearance over one year ago and had long been [...]

News: Guillermo León by La Aurora 15 Minute Break Arrives in Stores

After a variety of delays, the first La Aurora 15 Minute Break has arrived in stores. Originally announced as a December release, the Guillermo León by La Aurora 15 Minute Break is a 3 1/2 x 42 Petit Corona sold in cardboard boxes of five with an MSRP of $24.75 per box. According to Miami [...]

News: Chesapeake Cigar Company Gets Exclusive La Aurora 107

Chesapeake Cigar Company in Edgewater, Md. has announced that they will soon be receiving a store exclusive size of the La Aurora 107, an 8 x 60 vitola called the Reverend Mike. The cigar is named for the store’s owner, Mike Lohsl, and will be officially released on his birthday, March 18. There will also [...]

Weekly News (January 21, 2013)

Editor’s Note: We’ve started covering price increases over the weekend and I made some reference to this on Twitter, but there will be a lot less January increases than last year. I’m not sure that 2013 will be without them, I honestly do think a portion of the companies indicating there won’t be any at [...]

News: La Aurora Plans Box-Pressed Fernando León & Guillermo León for IPCPR 2013

This past week, Miami Cigar & Co.’s social media presence was active during its annual sales meeting with updates to a few projects. While the new 107 Maduro, a new blend from the original that soft launched in late 2011, and the Guillermo León by La Aurora Ambassador were described as simply “closer to reality,” a [...]

News: Two Lanceros For Nestor Miranda’s 70th Birthday

Miami Cigar & Co. has confirmed details of the cigars that will be made in celebration of company founder and director Nestor Miranda’s 70th birthday, which is coming up on February 14, 2013. In a story on CigarAficionado.com, it was revealed that a pair of Lanceros – one made by La Aurora S.A. in Santiago, Dominican [...]

News: Guillermo León by La Aurora 15 Minute Break Size in December

Yesterday, Miami Cigar & Co., La Aurora’s U.S. distributor, confirmed the long-rumored 15 Minute Break size would be coming to the American market in December. We first reported of the 3 1/2 x 42 size in early July when there was some belief it might appear at IPCPR. The size has already appeared in the international market [...]

Review: La Aurora Preferidos Maduro Lancero (2012)

The La Aurora Preferidos Maduro Lancero up for review traces its roots back to a similar cigar made for W. Curtis Draper’s 123rd anniversary back in May 2010. That cigar caught the attention of David Mogilner, vice-president of Racine & Laramie in San Diego, who wanted to have some made for his store. According to [...]

Redux: Para Japón by La Aurora

Shortly after a massive 8.9–magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, a group of online cigar media were visiting La Aurora’s facilities in the Dominican Republic. In that group was Mario Takeyama of Cigar Explorer, who was born in Japan and felt the call to do something as an industry member to [...]

Press Release: Cigar Inn to Launch Fernando León

August 31, 2012 (Miami, FL) — In 1997, Fernando León of La Aurora Cigars traveled to New York City with Nestor Miranda from Miami Cigar & Company. This was the first time the head of La Aurora traveled to the United States for a cigar event. The location was Cigar Inn and they were hosted [...]