News: Casa Miranda by Nestor Miranda

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There was that rumor about Willy Herrera of ETB Cigars and Jonathan Drew, but I’ve been told that was just speculation at best. Today comes word of something that is actually happening involving the El Titan de Bronze factory. Miami Cigar & Co. has teamed up with Willy to make the new Casa Miranda, being [...]

News: LFD “The Digger” Goes Into Full Production

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Litto Gomez normally keeps news pretty close, but it seems like he’s already ready to go public with some of La Flor Dominicana’s IPCPR plans. The La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero “The Digger”, a cigar released in limited quantities to a hundred accounts in April will be made into a regular production cigar. The 8 [...]

Weekly News (May 30, 2011)

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Editor’s Note: Outside of the Monday news, this site has seen various formats in its news… For the next week, there will be at least a trial in more coverage to all stories, not just your Viaje and Tatuaje new releases. Feedback is always appreciated. Oh yeah, Lancero50 is in full swing, in case you [...]

News: Tatuaje PJ40th, just a Fausto

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We do a great job at promoting cigar rumors and news. Every once in a while we are wrong, other times we are really really wrong, like last week. I figured, it’d be nice to once try to correct some possible rumors that might be incorrect. Pete Johnson posted the above (after you click beyond the [...]

News: Zino Platinum Specter Z-Class & Other Davidoff News (Exclusive)

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Since we couldn’t break the story about Crowned Heads, Jon Huber’s new company, we decided it was time for some Davidoff news. I’m a big fan of the Swiss brand and their approach to cigars and while what’s after the jump is quite a bit of news, this isn’t a State of the Brand. — el [...]

News: New Liga Privadas (Exclusive)

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In the past couple weeks, two of Drew Estate’s lesser-known Liga Privada projects have had some light shed on them. The first was the Liga Privada MF13, a prototype blend based off of the T52 which will be featured at a few special tasting events; the second was the announcement last week that the Ratzilla, [...]

News: AVO 787 Discontinued/Relaunch at IPCPR 2011 (Exclusive)

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Early this morning there were some rumblings on Sesame St. regarding the AVO 787. Yesterday, Davidoff quietly stopped shipping the 787 and is now no longer taking orders. Edward Simon, brand manager of AVO, told me they will relaunch the cigars at the (IPCPR) show in July. The plan is as of now to keep [...]