Portraits: Yuri Guillen
Yuri Guillen is in charge of one of the largest cigar factories in the world: General Cigar Dominicana, the Santiago-based behemoth that is responsible for…
Nick & Jim P.B.E.
While it does not happen very often, every once in a while a cigar release ends up with a different name than the one it…
HVC Pan Caliente Robusto
In April 2016, HVC Cigars released the first of what has now become three different vitolas in a new line that takes its name from…
Protocol Themis Toro
During the 2017 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Cubariqueño Cigar Co. formally released a brand new line named Protocol Themis that was developed by William Agathis, one of…
Muestra de Saka Unicorn
OIn the cigar world, an ultra expensive or extremely hard to find cigar is often referred to as a unicorn, after the mythical horned horse….
Portraits: Alain Crevet
S.T.Dupont, in all of its glorious Francophilia, is not actually owned by a French person. In the late 1980s, Dickson Concepts, the company of Hong Kong…
MBombay Classic Torpedo
Early last month, MBombay Cigars began shipping the newest vitola in its Classic line, the 6 x 50 Torpedo. However, the seemingly routine release had…
E.P. Carrillo Elencos Acto Mayor (2017)
As the song goes, everything old is new again, and such is the case with a new release from E.P. Carrillo. The new line is named Elencos,…
Zino Platinum LE 2014 “The Make of Texas”
In 2014, Davidoff of Geneva USA expanded its urban art-themed Zino Platinum Collector’s Edition series, which featured a collaboration with a different urban artist who supplied…
Alec Bradley Black Market Bootlegger
While store exclusive releases are nothing new in the cigar industry, store exclusive releases in another country are quite a bit more rare. Such is…
Cohiba Talismán (EL 2017)
A new Edición Limitada from Habanos S.A. is almost always a big deal, but add the fact that it is the first Edición Limitada release for the…
