The first question that you’re probably wanting to ask about the Viaje Tower Cigars 45th Anniversary is: what is different about this year’s release from last year’s? The answer is simple: nothing, according to Mark Just, owner of Tower Pipes & Cigars in Sacramento, CA. That means the size, the blend, the packaging all stayed the same [...]

Liga Privada is forever working on new blends, and new vitolas of old blends, and that is how the Ratzilla came to be. While looking to make a (somewhat) larger version of the insanely popular Dirty Rat, quite a few different sizes were tested before they settled on a final size of 6 1/4 x [...]

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, [...]

The Associated Press has called the results of California’s Proposition 29 and is declaring that the measure will go down in defeat. In a story published at 3:27 PM EDT on Friday, the AP reports that “the measure failed by 50.3 percent to 49.7 with about 5 million votes cast, The Associated Press determined Friday. [...]

June 22, 2012 (Miami, FL) — Oliva Cigar was the official cigar sponsor for the 15th Annual Mario Lemieux Celebrity Invitational held on June 13th and 14th at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort outside Pittsburgh, PA. The proceeds from this annual event benefit the Mario Lemieux Foundation’s important work in cancer and neonatal research. Almost 200 [...]

Last Monday, Quesada informed its reps it would be adding three additional sizes to its two returning Oktoberfest sizes. At least one size was still being finalized, but as of yesterday, the IPCPR release has been finalized. The five vitolas are: Oktoberfest Bavarian (5 1/2 x 52 Double Robusto) — $7.95 — 1,000 Boxes of [...]

As of June 1, Toraño Family Cigars is no longer the U.S. distributor for Graycliff. The news comes just over a year since the May 2011 announcement that the two companies had agreed to a distribution deal. Graycliff is now once again distributing its brand in the U.S. Almost a year ago Toraño also announced [...]

Crowned Heads, the Nashville-based cigar company formed by four former CAO employees in early 2011, has announced its sixth size to its debut Four Kicks line, a 5 1/2 x 56 Robusto Extra. The news comes only a few months after the addition of the Four Kicks Selección No. 5 and means the company will [...]

Camacho Cigars launched the newly redesigned CamachoCigars.com on Thursday morning, describing it as being “as bold as their products.” A visit to the website revealed two interesting things – a pop-up alert warning that the site wants to track the user’s physical location, and a request to “Please upgrade your web browser to get the [...]

June 21, 2012 (Miami) - Antillian Cigar Corporation, owner of popular cigar brands such as Sosa, Imperio Cubano and Macabi, is happy to announce that it will be introducing a new 6 x 60 size to its Sosa Classic cigar line. This 6 x 60 will be one of the first 60 cigar ring gauges to [...]

Mombacho Cigars was founded in the spring of 2006 by a pair of Canadian friends, one of whom, Markus Raty, handles sales for the company and was kind of enough to answer some questions about the cigars. According to a 2008 story from Financial News which was reposted by CigarWeekly.com, Raty and Toronto-based beer entrepreneur Cameron [...]

After what seemed like years of inaction, Emilio cigars has exploded, announcing seven new blends that will be for sale soon or before the end of the year and even more in 2013. Among them is a rebranding of one of their most popular cigars, the Grimalkin, which will now be known as La Musa Mousa. [...]