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News: Matt Booth Announces Room101 Brand Online Boutique

Matt Booth of Room101 Brand took to social media this weekend to announce the upcoming launch of the Room101 Brand online boutique and a clothing collection. Booth posted a picture of this t-shirt to his Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts late Saturday night: New Room101 cloth goods and online boutique coming soon. Stay tuned. #room101 #room101brand [...]

Review: Room101 Big Delicious (Prerelease)

In December 2012, halfwheel broke the story of a new cigar coming from Room101 and Smoke Inn, a project called “Big Delicious” that takes its name from Matt Booth’s nickname for Abe Dababneh, proprietor of the South Florida retailer. The new cigar, the six installment in Smoke Inn’s MicroBlend Series™, made its first public appearance on [...]

Press Release: Room101 Namakubi Heads to Ecuador

March 7, 2013 (Tampa, Fla.) — Room101 is extending its popular Namakubi franchise with a bold and exciting new blend due out in early March 2013. The new Room101 Namakubi Ecuador is a fusion of wrapper and binder tobacco from a recent, highly rated Room101 release combined with the filler tobaccos of the original Namakubi [...]

News: Room101 Master Collection On the Way

A new line of cigars that is described as the most premium offering from Room101 to date is on the way. “This is the most premium Room101 offering to-date,” said Dylan Austin, Head of Marketing for Room101. “That includes the blend and the package, both being above and beyond what has ever been developed for the [...]

Press Release: Room101 & Smoke Inn Make Bastard Child!

January 15, 2013 (West Palm Beach, FL)-– In a continuing effort to create limited runs of premium cigars blended by the industry’s top manufacturers, Smoke Inn Cigars of South Florida proudly presents its sixth installment of their MicroBlend Series™,Room101 Big Delicious. The Room101 Big Delicious cigar will be a 6.25” x 42-54 Torpedo with a [...]

News: Big Delicious Coming from Room101 & Smoke Inn

A new cigar project from Room101 is on the way, called “Big Delicious” that will be part of Smoke Inn’s Microblend Series. Room101′s Matt Booth says that the blend has been finalized but the specific size is still being decided.  The name comes from Booth’s nickname for Abe Dababneh, owner of Smoke Inn in South [...]

News: Room101 OSOK Returns As Store Exclusive

Cigar Inn in New York City has taken delivery of the Room101 OSOK 212, a store exclusive re-issue of a cigar that made its debut in January 2012. It is being made available in four sizes: Room101 OSOK 212 Chingonazo  (6 x 60) Room101 OSOK 212 Pedaso  (6 1/2 x 54) Chingon  (8 x 44 x [...]

Review: Room101 Daruma Mutante

Matt Booth’s Room101 has made an annual tradition of a limited release at the IPCPR trade show. For 2012, Booth brought Daruma, which uses a Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, as well as a Brazilian Mata Fina binder, and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Honduras. As with the Namakubi, 2012′s Daruma is based on Japanese culture and philosophy. Wikipedia [...]

IPCPR 2012: Davidoff Group

Between AVO, Camacho, Davidoff, Griffin’s, Room101, Winston Churchill, Zino and the lesser talked about Oettinger Davidoff Group brands—every year will be a busy year for Davidoff. Oddly the biggest splash in Orlando took place outside of the booth in the form of the inaugural Golden Band Awards—a ceremony honoring Davidoff’s top White Label retail merchants. [...]

News: Camacho Launches New Website

Camacho Cigars launched the newly redesigned CamachoCigars.com on Thursday morning, describing it as being “as bold as their products.” A visit to the website revealed two interesting things – a pop-up alert warning that the site wants to track the user’s physical location, and a request to “Please upgrade your web browser to get the [...]