Tonight marks the end of the Festival del Habano XXII, Cuba’s annual event dedicated to cigars. It concludes with a gala dinner highlighted by an auction of large humidors that oftentimes sell for six-figure sums. This year there are five humidors, each centered around one of Cuba’s most iconic cigar brands. H. Upmann Humidor As...Read More
Tonight marks the end of the Festival del Habano XXII, Cuba’s annual event dedicated to cigars. It concludes with a gala dinner highlighted by an auction of large humidors that oftentimes sell for six-figure sums. This year there are five humidors, each centered around one of Cuba’s most iconic cigar brands. H. Upmann Humidor As...Read More
Micallef Cigars has announced a new maduro line with a name that you can help decide. The cigar is a 6 3/4 x 54 toro extra vitola with a maduro wrapper of undisclosed origin, a Sumatran binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. It is priced at $7.50 per cigar. Interestingly, the company...Read More
Not every state is signing on to the recently passed federal increase of the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21-years-old, as on Thursday the Idaho Senate rejected SB 1308, which would have brought the state’s law in line with the federal law. The bill was defeated on its third reading, with 22 senators voting...Read More
This March, General Cigar Co.’s Diesel brand is getting a new limited edition, and the company is calling it the boldest Diesel blend to date. The Diesel Delirium is blended by Abdel Fernandez and made at Tabacalera AJ Fernandez in Esteli, Nicaragua. It uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, Connecticut broadleaf binder and a Nicaraguan filler...Read More
Colibri has launched a new, smaller desktop humidor in the company’s signature Quasar design. Designed to hold between 40-45 cigars, the cedar-lined humidor measures 12 x 9 x 4.5 inches and comes with a movable magnetic humidification device, digital hygrometer and two adjustable dividers. It is available in black, red or gunmetal, each with an...Read More
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a major anti-tobacco bill, one that if enacted would change the fabric of the cigar industry. Earlier today, the House approved H.R. 2339, the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019. A vote total was not immediately available, but a Tweet from Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib announced the...Read More
As part of its efforts to raise money to fight anti-cigar legislation and regulations from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the key manufacturers of Cigar Rights of America have released samplers over the years. Typically those samplers have included one cigar from each of the companies, oftentimes a flagship release for each respective...Read More
