While the cigar industry as a whole was getting ready for the 2019 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Padilla was opening a new factory. Tabacalera Padilla opened its doors in May 2019, operating as a partnership between Ernesto Padilla and Osvani Hernandez, a Cuban-born agronomist who has been making cigars in Nicaragua for a few years....Read More
While the cigar industry as a whole was getting ready for the 2019 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Padilla was opening a new factory. Tabacalera Padilla opened its doors in May 2019, operating as a partnership between Ernesto Padilla and Osvani Hernandez, a Cuban-born agronomist who has been making cigars in Nicaragua for a few years....Read More
Los Angeles County is considering a proposal that would ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. According to the Los Angeles Times, the county’s Board of Supervisors is expected to take up the matter next month, which could outlaw the sale of flavored tobacco products as soon as February 2020. The proposal allegedly calls for...Read More
Anniversaries in the cigar industry are always a valid explanation for a new cigar. At one point, those were reserved for just major anniversaries, but at some point standards for what was important enough for an anniversary release just disappeared. That being said, I don’t recall a company ever releasing a cigar for a half-year...Read More
The Glory Days is now in stores. A.J. Fernández has begun shipping the Días de Gloria—which translates to glory days—a four-size line that is made to mimic the cigars that were once smoked by Ismael Fernández, the father of company founder Abdel Fernández, when he was living in his native Cuba. For the line, Fernández...Read More
And after all that, there will be no consumer day—at least for 2020 and hopefully not for 2021 either. Earlier today, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) announced that CigarCon 2020 was canceled, and that it would evaluate whether to introduce the concept for 2021, including creating a new sub-committee to further study the concept. Given...Read More
At last year’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, JRE Tobacco. Co. released a very interesting cigar it dubbed the Aladino Corojo Reserva. The interesting part was evident in its name, as the single vitola puro that was made up of 100 percent corojo tobacco sourced from Honduras. At that time, there was only one vitola—namely,...Read More
A bit later than originally announced but ahead of the most recent schedule, Drew Estate has begun shipping the Undercrown Shade SUPREMA to Drew Diplomat retailers across the country. The cigar is a 6 x 50/54 perfecto, and it’s also the first time that the brand is getting a limited edition addition in the U.S....Read More
