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Press Release: 2013 La Flor Dominicana TAA Exclusive Cigar

April 24, 2013 — La Flor Dominicana is proud to announce the release of the 2013 Exclusive TAA Cigar, available only to those TAA members that attended this year’s conference in Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. This year’s cigar is the Double Press Maduro. TAA members were treated to a pre release sample [...]

Review: Kristoff 685 Woodlawn (Prerelease)

On March 29, Glen Case of Kristoff released the details of his new small batch cigar in an exclusive to halfwheel. The Kristoff 685 Woodlawn draws its name from the suburban Chicago house in which Case lived until he was 21 years old. While the Kristoff 685 Woodlawn won’t be formally released until the IPCPR [...]

News: Tatuaje 10th Anniversary TAA 2013 Emerges

Much of the 2013 Tatuaje release for the TAA is familiar, even if the blend won’t return until 2014. Last week at the 45th annual Tobacconists Association of America meeting and convention in the Dominican Republic, members of the retailer group had an opportunity to purchase a special 6 3/8 x 54 vitola featuring a [...]

Review: Tatuaje TAA 2012

As we wrote in March and again in August, the Tobacconists Association of America held its annual convention, which took place March 25-29 in Los Cabos, Mexico. While that in of itself is not something to get overly excited about, this was also the time when Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars took orders for one of [...]

News: Tatuaje TAA 2012 Slated for September

Pete Johnson is preparing the second release of his popular exclusive release for the Tobacconists Association of America, the Tatuaje TAA 2012. Last year, Johnson released the TAA 2011 based off the popular Pork Tenderloin and subsequent Barclay Rex. Johnson took to Twitter to field questions about what size people wanted: And eventually settled on 6 [...]

Review: La Flor Dominicana TAA 2012 Air Bender Maduro Torpedo

During the IPCPR show in 2011, La Flor Dominicana showed off a unique humidor, with a unique blend. The Casa del Tobaco was a scale model humidor of a tobacco curing barn that typically holds tobacco after it has been harvested. Inside were a total of 24 Airbender Maduros measuring 6 1/2 x 54, each [...]

Review: La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Robusto Limitado TAA Edition

The Mi Amor Robusto Limitado is rolled for Ashton at My Father Cigars S.A. in Estelí, Nicaragua, the second La Aroma de Cuba line to get the Pepín treatment after the Edicíon Especial in 2009. The binder and filler are grown by the Garcías, while the wrapper is a Cuban seed that comes from the San [...]

Weekly News (April 2, 2012)

Editor’s Note: This week was a solemn week for the cigar industry. Manny Ferrero of Ashton Distributors passed away at the Tobacconist Association of America conference in Cabo San Lucas. I only met Manny once and even to me, a stranger, he was kind and overly enthusiastic about not just Ashton, but the industry as [...]

News: Tatuaje TAA Returns in 2012

Pete Johnson of Havana Cellars/Tatuaje has confirmed that for the second year in a row, he will be making a cigar exclusive to the members of the Tobacconists Association of America. Johnson has yet to release many other details, other than that he will be taking orders at the annual convention, which takes place March [...]

Review: Romeo y Julieta Exclusivo Para TAA by José Seijas

Over the past two years, a series of limited edition cigars produced exclusively for Tobacconist Association of America members has garnered a fair share of buzz among cigar smokers in the know. Interestingly, most of the buzz comes via members of the online media or a few retailers who are active on Twitter, as the TAA keeps a fairly [...]