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Review: Villiger Talanga Selecto Lancero

In January of 2013, Villiger Cigars announced they would be hosting various Discovery Tour events in order to introduce their cigars to smokers around the country. Along with the normal specials, the events would also feature a sampler of unreleased cigars that would be included with box purchases. We broke the news with the information [...]

News: Villiger Cigars Launches Discovery Tour Featuring Unreleased Sampler

Villiger Cigars North America, a branch of the Swiss tobacco company, will host the first event of its Discover Tour tomorrow at Gordon’s Cigars in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Discovery Tour is an 80 event promotion planned for the first quarter of this year featuring a new sampler of unreleased cigars, hence the Unreleased Sampler [...]

IPCPR 2012: Villiger

Earlier this year Erik Stokkebye left Villiger-Stokkebye and Roy MacLaren was named the president of the company. Since then MacLaren has been working on two lines from Plasencia Cigars S.A.—both bearing the Villiger name. Both were on display at IPCPR with a debut set for August 9. Villiger ColoradoOffered in four sizes (Robusto, Double Robusto, [...]

News: Erik Stokkebye leaves Villiger-Stokkebye

The Villiger Stokkebye International Corporation has announced the immediate departure of company president Erik Stokkebye to pursue other interests. In a letter dated February 27, 2012 which was posted on PipesMagazine.com, Peter Witzke, Villiger Stokkebye’s Chairman of the Board, made the announcement and said, “we would like to thank Erik for his contribution to the [...]