Posted by Patrick Lagreid on June 22, 2012 ·
The cigar industry made no secret of their feelings of relief in the wake of the expected defeat of Proposition 29 in California, a proposal that would have raised taxes of premium cigars and pipe tobacco by 73%. In one of the first press releases issued following the announcement that 100% of precincts had reported, [...]
Category: Featured, Main, News · Tags: Bill Spann, California, Cigar Rights of America, CRA, Glynn Loope, Grant's Tobacconists, Havana Cellars, International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers, IPCPR, Joe Barron, Legislation, Mark Just, Mission Pipe Shop, OTP Tax, Pete Johnson, Prop 29, Proposition 29, Tatuaje, Taxes, Tower Cigars
Posted by Charlie Minato on June 18, 2012 ·
Editor’s Note: It will be a busy week at halfwheel and likely busy up until the trade show. I’m not sure if it’s entirely necessary. There’s a chicken and egg problem regarding new releases that runs rampant through the industry. There’s not enough space in most retail humidors because of a flood of new releases, [...]
Category: Main, News, Weekly News · Tags: Chattanooga Tweet-Up 2012, Christian Eiroa, Cigar Aficionado, Cigar Rights of America, Davidoff, Draig K, Emilio, Gurkha, Gurkha Wicked Indie, Gurkha Wicked Indie Little Indies, Havana Cellars, IPCPR, J. Fuego 777 Minutos, La Flor Dominicana, Litto Gomez, Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch, Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch No. 4, Litto Gomez Diez Small Batch No. 4 Oscuro, New Havana Cigars, NHC Selección Limitada Capa Especial 2012, Oettinger Davidoff Group, Oliva, Padrón, Padrón W. Curtis Draper 125th Anniversary, Perdomo, Perdomo 20th Anniversary, S. 1461, Tabacaleras Unidas, Tatuaje, Tower Cigars, Viaje, Viaje C-4, Viaje Exclusivo Tower 45th, Viaje Roman Candle, Viaje Summerfest, Viaje TNT, W. Curtis Draper
Posted by Charlie Minato on January 11, 2012 ·
For the 2010 rendition of this concept, click here to see Brian Hewitt’s work. Before anyone starts, I started this long before Bill Berris posted his rendition of this a few days at Cigar Snapshot. (Bill’s serves as a interesting sample of this, although there are noticeable differences beyond population size.) The concept was simple, [...]
Category: Featured, Main, Miscellaneous · Tags: A.J. Fernandez, Adrian's CroMagnon, Andre Farkas, Ashton, Ashton VSG, CAsa Magna Domus Magnus, Crowned Heads, Dan Welsh, Drew Estate, Emilio, Emilio AF1, Emilio Grimalkin, Fausto, Four Kicks, Gary Griffith, Grimalkin, Havana Cellars, Holt's Cigar Holdings, Illusione, Illusione Epernay, Jaime García, Jaime García Reserva Especial Limited Edition 2011, Janny García, Jon Huber, Jonathan Drew, José "Don Pepín" García, La Casita Criolla, La Flor Dominicana Colorado Oscuro, La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate, Litto Gomez, Man O' War Armada, Manuel "Manolo" Quesada, MATASA, Matt Booth, Michael Rosales, Mike Conder, My Father Cigars Inc., My Father Cigars S.A., My Father El Hijo, My Father Le Bijou 1922, New Havana Cigars, NHC Capa Especial, Padrón, Padrón 1964 SI-15, Pete Johnson, Piloto Cigars Inc., Quesada, Quesada Oktoberfest, Quesada Selección España, Room 101 LTD Namakubi, Room101, SAG Imports, San Lotano, San Lotano Oval, Skip Martin, Smoke Inn, Steve Saka, Tabacalera Fernandez, Tabacalera La Flor S.A., Tabacos Cubanica S.A., Tatuaje, Tatuaje Black Label Petit Lancero, Tatuaje Fausto, Tatuaje La Casita Criolla, The Quesada Factory, Tower Cigars, Undercrown, Viaje, Viaje Exclusivo Tower Cigars 45th
Posted by Steve Valle on June 7, 2011 ·
Today we will be taking a look at a new release from Viaje, the 2011 Chiquito! In 2009, using the very popular Exclusivo Blend, Viaje released a 4 7/8 x 51 Figurado named the Chiquito, the cigar was made in very limited quantities and was only made available at two stores: Tower Cigars in California [...]
Category: Cigars, Featured, Honduras, Main, Reviews, Viaje · Tags: Andre Farkas, Fábrica de Tabacos Raíces Cubanas S. de R.L., Honduras, Mark Just, Raíces Cubanas, Tower Cigars, Viaje, Viaje Exclusivo Chiquito
Posted by Charlie Minato on April 11, 2011 ·
This week in cigar news: Pete Johnson. Seriously, it’s a relatively quiet week with the notable exception of Tatuaje’s Pete Johnson. When you remove the Havana Cellars news, it becomes shockingly silent. After the jump, a massive La Flor Dominicana, a new Nestor Miranda, the rerelease of a few cigars, including an ultra-rare Oliva, a [...]
Category: News · Tags: Altadis S.A., Ambos Mundos, Ambos Mundos Shorts, Andre Farkas, Bryan Scholle, Cigar Aficionado, De La Concha, Guillermo León, Havana Cellars, IPCPR, IPCPR 2011, Jaime García, Jaime Garcia Limited Edition, Jaime Garcia Reserve Especial, Janny García, Jason Wood, José "Don Pepín" García, José Blanco, La Aurora, La Dueña, La Flor Dominicana, La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero, La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero "The Digger", Legislation, Litto Gomez, Litto Gomez Diez, Litto Gomez Diez Cubanito, Marvin Shanken, Miami Cigar & Co., My Father Cigars, My Father LE 2011, Nestor Miranda, Nestor Miranda Grand Reserve, Nevada, New Havana Cigars, New York, Nicaraguan Cigar Festival, Oliva, Oliva Serie V, Oliva Serie V Culebra, Para Japón, Para Japón by La Aurora, Pete Johnson, Ron Melendi, Shiroma's Wine and More, STUDIO TOBAC, Tabacalera de García, TABOLISA, Tatuaje, Tatuaje Eastie, Tatuaje Havana VI, Tatuaje Havana VI Verocu No. 1, Tatuaje Series P, Tatuaje SWAM 5th Anniversary, Tatuaje Westie, Tower Cigars, Viaje, Viaje Tower Cigars 45th Anniversary
Posted by Charlie Minato on February 14, 2011 ·
The Tatuaje CMF5 was announced. The newest limited edition to honor a retailer’s anniversary, this time Fresno, CA’s Cigars Más Fino. It’s a closed foot Robusto based off the Havana VI blend, to be released February 24th. There are 100 boxes made, information about the waiting list is on the original post. Charlie Stahl (Ray) [...]
Category: News · Tags: Altadis, Altadis S.A., Andre Farkas, Cain Daytona, Cain F, Cain F Culebra, Carlos Toraño, Cigars Más Fino, Coronado, Cuba, Davidoff, Davidoff New York, Drew Estate, Fonseca, Fonseca 120th, Galego, Habanos S.A., Havana Cellars, IPCPR, IPCPR 2011, Jim Colucci, Jonathan Drew, Jorge Luis Fernández Maique, La Flor Dominicana, La Flor Dominicana AIr Bender Maduro, La Flor Dominicana Cameroon Cabinet, La Flor Dominicana Coronado Maduro, La Flor Dominicana Diadema, La Flor Dominicana Salomon, Legislation, Litto Gomez, Litto Gomez Diez Galego, Manuel "Manolo" Quesada, Manuel García, MATASA, Michael Herklots, Oscar Basulto Torres, Quesada, Ratzilla, Steve Saka, Studio Tobc, Tatuaje, Tatuaje CMF5, Toraño, Toraño Family Cigar, Tower Cigars, Utah, Viaje, Viaje Tower Cigars 45th Anniversary, Washington, XIII Festival del Habano
Posted by Charlie Minato on February 2, 2011 ·
After speaking with Mark of Tower Cigars, it seemed time to put the info for the newest Viaje LE in one place. In May, the Viaje Tower Cigars 45th Anniversary cigar will be released. For the Tower CIgars’ historians out there (or those people who read the news when we officially broke the story on [...]
Posted by Charlie Minato on January 31, 2011 ·
Can he do it? Will he do it…? Yepp, another week, another Viaje LE announcement. Nope, I’m not kidding. It marks the seventh sixth (I really thought there were seven) announcement of a new Viaje product this month joining the: Exclusivo Chiquito, Exclusivo Shorts, WLP, Late Harvest and Trifecta. The stick? You’re going to have [...]
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Posted by Charlie Minato on January 17, 2011 ·
StogieReview decided that it would become the place to break all news regarding cigar shops closing up. First, Walt White informed us that Demuth Tobacco Shop, the country’s oldest cigar shop (founded in 1770), was not just temporarily closing, but shutting down for good. A few days later Jerry Cruz announced that his home shop, [...]
Category: Featured, Main, News, Weekly News · Tags: 601, 601 White, Actor's Series, Andre Farkas, Bethesda Tobacco, Cigar-ette City, Cranium, CroMagnon, Cuban Crafters, Demuth Tobacco Shop, Eddie Ortega, EO Brands, Erik Espinosa, Exclusivo, Exclusivo Chiquito, Fausto, Federal 109, Federal Cigars, Flatbed Cigar Co., Indiana, IPCPR, Kentucky, La Casita Criolla, Legislation, Meat Locker, Monster Series, New York, Nicaraguan Imports, Nick Perdomo, Nickelbys Smoke Ring, P Series, Panacea, Panacea Red, Perdomo, Perdomo Conmemorativo, Pete Johnson, SmokingStogie, Stogie Review, Tatuaje, Tatuaje 109, Tatuaje Avion, Toraño, Tower Cigars, United Tobacco, Viaje, W. Curtis Draper
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