2017 Awards: Top 25
We reviewed nearly 300 cigars in 2017. As is often the case with halfwheel, it’s a wide range of items from the biggest releases of…
Watch The Top 25 Cigars Live Show (2 P.M. CST)
That’s right, we’ll be unveiling our Top 25 cigars for 2017 live, on Facebook. In addition to unveiling our list, we’ll be giving away three…
2012 by Oscar Barber Pole
We seem to be reviewing more and more barber pole cigars. And while none of them are quite normal, the 2012 by Oscar version is a…
Altadis Sues Figaro Cigars Over Fleur-de-lis Use
Altadis U.S.A., one of the largest cigar brands, has sued Figaro Cigars 1943 LLC, a company whose website lists a total of seven authorized retailers….
2017 Awards: Company of the Year
For the most part, this was not a year of bold risks, massive capital expenditures or complete reboots. Instead, thanks to reasons FDA-related and not,…
Gurkha Cancels Plans to Acquire American Caribbean Cigars Factory
Gurkha’s planned acquisition of American Caribbean Cigars is no more. Last May, the company announced plans to acquire the Estelí, Nicaragua-based factory that is responsible…
2017 Awards: Factory of the Year
90. 92. 89. 91. 87. 87. 91. 88. 92. 90. Those are the scores for new cigars from the Cigars Davidoff factory in 2017, an…
Rich Krutick Promoted to VP of Marketing & Retail for Davidoff
Rich Krutick has been promoted to Davidoff of Geneva USA’s vp of marketing and retail. Krutick will continue to oversee the marketing efforts for the…
Muestra de Saka Unicorn Shipping
It’s $100. Less than a month after publicly teasing that he may or may not release the cigar, Steve Saka is in fact releasing his…
Rocky Patel Ships Tabaquero Culebra
There is a new Tabaquero by Hamlet Paredes vitola, though it may look a bit familiar. The company is now shipping the Tabaquero in a…
A Note About New Company of the Year
There will not be an award for new company of the year in 2017, at least not from this site. We’ve given the award each…