La Aurora has confirmed its newest Preferido will be one with a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. The cigar, which will be known as Preferidos Diamond, will come in a black tubo and the signature 5 x 54 Preferidos No. 2 vitola. Nestor Miranda, head of Miami Cigar & Co., the U.S. distributor for La Aurora, first [...]

Last week, SAG Imports, the distribution arm of the Quesada family’s cigar operation which also include Casa Magna, Fonseca and the newly-announced Tres Reynas, informed retailers of their IPCPR releases. In addition to the already-announced Oktoberfest, Tres Reynas and plans for the unveiling of the third and final size of Q d’Etat, SAG announced plans [...]

Our final Icons of Cigars™ portrait from our trip to Cigar Safari in Nicaragua is Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate. As you may or may not recall, we had photographed J.D. before, last year at the IPCPR show, but I was looking for something a bit different out of this trip. It seems to me that [...]

In 2007, before people started getting a bit jaded on the whole Edición Regional program, Habanos S.A. released the Por Larrañaga Magnifico, a regional release for the U.K.  The vitola is an almost exact replica, only 2mm shorter, of the of the famous Por Larrañaga Magnum, which is thought by some to be one the greatest cigars ever made until [...]

In October of 2008, Pete Johnson released the first of what would become the most noted limited edition of the late 2000s, the Tatuaje Monster Series with the first release being The Frank. Jose Agosto of Gloucester Street Cigar Company, who the Tatuaje Porkchop was named after, is oftentimes credited with assisting Johnson in coming [...]

In spring, Hunters & Frankau, Habanos S.A.’s distributor in the United Kingdom, took shipment of the first of two expected Edición Regionals. The Bolivar Británicas arrived only a few months before the eventual arrival of the Punch Medalla d’Oro last month, although both were 2011 ER releases. As Patrick explained in the Por Larrañaga Robusto review: [...]

July 7, 2012 — Want a Crémo, but no one near you sells them? Crémo Premium Cigars gets mail from cigar smokers wanting to try their cigar. With all the reviews out there giving them high marks, and the few customers who have had one praising it, they have decided to help you out. Crémo [...]

The fourth and most recent installment in Tatuaje’s Monster Series was The Wolfman, a sizable, shaggy foot cigar released in October 2011 and named for a movie monster that first appeared on the big screen in December 1941. In less than a year’s time after the release of The Wolfman, Johnson has released a sampler box [...]

July 6, 2012 — Last month 262 Cigars released the name for their new cigar line, “REVERE” set to appear late this fall. The 262 REVERE will be a Nicaraguan puro with a wrapper from the Jalapa Valley, a double binder of both Jalapa and Estelí tobaccos, and a combination of Estelí, Condega and Jalapa [...]

A brief news post on CubanCigarWebsite.com has confirmed that all of 2011′s scheduled releases from Habanos S.A. have been delivered. The cigar that completed the 2011 release schedule was the Por Larrañaga Legendarios, an Edición Regional for Spain that was released in the past few weeks. The Legendarios measures 6  3/4 (170mm) x 50, a [...]

July 6, 2012 — After the presentation of the H.Upmann Half Corona in 25 units Labelled Box in 2011 which was of great acceptance among Habanos* smokers, the new Half Corona presentation in metal case of 5 units will be available around the world soon. Herman Upmann was a German banker whose passion for the [...]

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 [...]