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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Weekly News (December 10, 2012)

Editor’s Note: Thanks to all those who made it to the halfwheel Holiday Party Pt. 1 at Tobacco Grove this past weekend. It was lots of fun and we found out that Brooks and I should probably remain in Dallas, where it only snows once a year. Details on Pt. 2, which will be on [...]

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 [...]

Weekly News (October 29, 2012)

Editor’s Note: halfwheel got a new feature, read about it here. Viaje Skull and Bones M?stery, V.O.R. #5 and V.P.R. #6 Arrive In Stores — Story here. Room101 OSOK 212 at Cigar Inn — And more details on the future of OSOK and Edgar Hoill here. Viaje Slates DES II For IPCPR 2013 — Story [...]

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 [...]