Costa Rica

In May, Casadagli Cigars announced a brand new line named Villa Casdagli, after the home of Emmanuel Casdagli, a Greek businessman who began the family’s Cairo-based cotton business in…

In 2007, Pure Aroma Cigars, Inc. released a five-vitola line under its Diplomacy Series named the D’Crossier Golden Blend. It was made up of an Ecuadorian…

If I had to name unique cigar brands from a company perspective, El Septimo seems like a strong candidate. It’s a brand that was largely…

At the 2019 IPCPR Convention Trade Show, Casdagli was showing off a few new items, but only one of them was a new cigar, a…

These days, overnight FedEx packages and two-hour Prime Amazon deliveries are the norm, but there was a time when a man riding on a horse…

Naming cigars after Estelí, Nicaragua’s cigar capitol, is nothing new. Most of the time when the city’s name is used, it’s because either the tobacco…

There are now a dozen different sizes of Atabey, the rather expensive brand from Costa Rica. For what it’s worth, the other two brands from…

The market for cigars priced $20 or more is somewhat stronger than I would have expected, and at the top of the list for new…

For its most recent line, MBombay focused on the uniqueness that comes with using tobaccos from a single farm, in this case, a 70-acre plot…

When a cigar company adds a new size to one of its lines, it’s a pretty formulaic announcement and process. The company generally either had…

When it comes to the Atabey line of cigars, it seems like there’s as much unknown about them as there is seemingly known. Nelson Alfonso—who…