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News: RoMa Craft Tobac Announces Limited Edition CRAFT Series for IPCPR 2013

Earlier today, Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac announced the company’s newest project, CRAFT 2013 La Campaña de Panamá Soberana. The announcement was made on halfwheel’s forum. Martin described CRAFT as a new line of annual limited releases, the first of which will debut at IPCPR. La Campaña de Panamá Soberana is the first of [...]

News: Sam Leccia Cigar Co. Sets May Debut for ‘Black & White’

In February, we broke news of the impending return of Sam Leccia to the cigar industry, a process that has been well chronicled throughout the cigar media. Leccia rose to visibility as the face of Oliva’s NUb and Cain brands. He departed from the company at the end of 2010, and was slated to return to the [...]

News: CroMagnon Mode 5 Set for IPCPR National Release

Earlier today Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac announced that the CroMagnon Mode 5 will become the sixth regular production vitola of the company’s debut line. The move will come at IPCPR 2013 in July with the 5 x 50 Short Perfecto being offered in boxes of 24, as opposed to the boxes of 12 [...]

News: Emilio Plans Mia Dora for IPCPR 2013

Friday night, Gary Griffith of Emilio Cigars announced his newest cigar, Mia Dora. The cigar is being made by A.J. Fernandez in honor of a woman named Dora. This is the second cigar Griffith has created to honor a woman, the other being La Musa. While the blend info and prototype art—seen below and above [...]

News: Tatuaje Brown Label Extensions Coming for 10th Anniversary

In addition to the special gold foil-wrapped, wet-packed, and specially-banded original sizes of the Tatuaje Seleccion de Cazador for Tatuaje’s 10th Anniversary, Havana Cellars will be expanding the Brown Label vitolas. Over the weekend, Sean “Casper” Johnson posted the following photograph showing off one of the new sizes. Johnson told halfwheel the newest 5 3/8 x [...]

News: Felipe Gregorio Plans Three New Lines for IPCPR 2013

Dominican cigarmaker Felipe Gregorio will introduce three new lines at IPCPR 2013 this summer in Las Vegas, Nev.: Doppio Forza, Defiant and Maximo Ligero. Phillip Wynne’s company is largely focusing on larger ring gauges, although Defiant will be comprised of entirely 5 x 52 vitolas. Doppio Forza will feature Dominican Criollo 97 over an Ecuadorian [...]

News: IPCPR Cancels Proposed Consumer Day, Raises Dues

In a letter sent out to its members this morning, the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association announced the proposed consumer day for the its annual trade show has been tabled after the organization was “strongly asked… not to proceed.” Bill Spann, CEO of the IPCPR, indicated that instead the organization would raise membership [...]

News: Swisher International to Enter Premium Market with Royal Gold

Swisher International, the company best known for Swisher Sweets, is entering the premium cigar market with Royal Gold Cigars spearheaded by industry veteran Alex Goldman. According to a report, Goldman, formerly of House of Oxford/Mom’s Cigars, has been hired as the new premium division’s president. The new brand is excepted to launch at IPCPR 2013 [...]

News: La Aurora Plans Box-Pressed Fernando León & Guillermo León for IPCPR 2013

This past week, Miami Cigar & Co.’s social media presence was active during its annual sales meeting with updates to a few projects. While the new 107 Maduro, a new blend from the original that soft launched in late 2011, and the Guillermo León by La Aurora Ambassador were described as simply “closer to reality,” a [...]

News: L’Atelier Imports Shows off Surrogates Animal Cracker

On Friday afternoon, the L’Atelier Imports Facebook page was updated with a picture of a new cigar that is slated to be released in 2013, the 6 x 60 Surrogates Animal Cracker. The photo shows Dan Welsh of L’Atelier holding the new cigar with a caption of “Surrogates Animal Cracker – 2013.” (Image via L’Atellier [...]