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News: Tatuaje Federal 90th Gets Formal Redux

A post on Tatuaje’s Saints & Sinners message board this week announced plans for the Tatuaje Exclusive Series Federal Cigar 90th Anniversary Redux that will be arriving in mid March, and a post on Federal Cigar’s Facebook page Wednesday afternoon confirmed the news. The cigar is a new blend but comes in the same 7 [...]

IPCPR 2012: Drew Estate & Joya de Nicaragua

The focus of Drew Estate’s IPCPR is Joya de Nicaragua’s Cuenca y Blanco. The cigar, which is the work of José Blanco is the center of attention thanks to the lack of debut for Willy Herrera’s Herrera Estelí. Despite a year with less buzz on paper, the Drew Estate booth remains as busy as can [...]

Icons of Cigars™ — Willy Herrera

Formally of El Titan de Bronze, Willy Herrera officially joined Drew Estate almost exactly one year ago. He has been working nonstop since that time, blending tobacco into his first release for Drew Estate, which should be ready to be introduced at the IPCPR show next month. Honestly, when Charlie and I were at the Cigar [...]

Review: Padilla 8 & 11 (2011) (Prerelease)

For those of you that don’t know… At the 2011 IPCPR show in Vegas, I talked with Ernesto Padilla (of Padilla Cigars fame) about many things, but one of the most interesting tidbit I picked up was that he was reblending the classic Padilla 8 & 11 cigar in a Robusto vitola, and that it [...]

Review: Casa Miranda Chapter One Robusto

I’ve enjoyed many of the cigars released by Miami Cigar & Co., with my personal favorite being the Special Selection Danno 2010. When Miami Cigars announced that they would be releasing the Nestor Miranda Grand Reserva and the Casa Miranda at IPCPR 2011, they immediately went on my short list of cigars to try. In [...]

IPCPR 2011: La Aurora and Miami Cigar & Co.

Too much. In a year were many manufacturers made it very clear they were aware of the amount of new releases collectively, Miami Cigar & Co. and La Aurora seemed to have missed the meeting. Jason Wood explained that it was the first time where La Aurora had offered a plethora of new releases, but [...]

News: Willy Herrera Joins Drew Estate

Willy Herrera & Drew Estate. I cannot claim that we “broke” the news, CigarBrief gets credit for first mentioning the rumor. However, after a few weeks of murmurs, the official word from Drew Estate and Willy Herrera. It’s already been a pretty busy last few weeks for Willy, which have included two new products from [...]

Weekly News (June 20, 2011)

Editor’s Note: Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of TheCigarFeed. While I’ve already reflected on one year and the future, I guess I’ll reflect on this time last year. We are now about one month away from IPCPR and things are in full swing. Press releases, samples and rumors are already flying around the cigar world. [...]

News: Padilla 8 & 11 Returns (Exclusive)

Ernesto did eat a taco. He also is re-releasing the famed Padilla Miami 8 & 11. Just two-hundred (200) boxes of the Robusto will be rolled in Miami at the corner of 8th St and 11th Ave in Calle Ocho. Cigars are slated to ship in the first quarter (October), but will be shown off [...]

Weekly News (June 13, 2011)

  Editor’s Note: It was seemingly on track to be a much quieter week for cigar news (in quantity it still is), and then the never-ending saga between Oliva Cigar Co. and Sam Leccia decided to show itself again. The issue is over a non-compete clause, a somewhat common thing in this industry. Sam joins [...]