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I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.

Dunhill Honoring 80th Anniversary of Selección Suprema

In 1935, Dunhiil commissioned Cándido Vega Díaz, a man who at the point had owned the El Rey del Mundo brand for three decades, to produce…

Weekly News (June 22, 2015)

Cigar News 1502 Shipping Nicaragua Churchill C.Gars Ltd Auctions $680,000 of Cigars Crowned Heads Announces La Imperiosa Crowned Heads Bringing New Jericho Hill Size to…

Ohio Senate Moving Forward With Proposed Budget, Capped Cigar Tax Change (Update)

Last night, the Ohio Senate Finance Committee passed an over 4,000-page version of the proposed two-year $71.3 billion operating budget, which would change the price…

Editorial: On Five Years

I’m sitting at my computer—or at least I was when I wrote this—and I thought to myself, “it’s mid-to-late June, when did I start TheCigarFeed again?”…

Heritage by Dunhill Debuting at IPCPR 2015

Dunhill is off to Honduras for its latest release, something that is expected to be much fuller than its current line-up of offerings. At next…

La Flor Dominicana Raising Prices Aug. 1

On Monday, La Flor Dominicana will inform retailers that it will raise prices on all of its cigars by 2.5 percent effective Aug. 1, 2015….

General Cigar Honors 170 Years of Partagas With Aniversario

General Cigar Co. celebrated the 150th anniversary of Partagás with a Cameroon-wrapped cigar; it then celebrated the 160th anniversary of Partagás with a Cameroon-wrapped cigar…

Joya de Nicaragua Cuatro Cinco Reserva Especial Coming Later This Month

Joya de Nicaragua found enough success with the its 45th anniversary cigar that it’s coming back. The company has announced that it will be introducing…

Padrón 1964 Thompson 100th Anniversary Robusto (Maduro)

On the list of most-known cigar retailers in the world, Thompson and Company ranks highly. The Tampa-based retailer is one of the leading mail-order companies…

La Flor Dominicana Meaner Digger Returning to Tobacco Haven

In 2012, La Flor Dominicana took the big cigar market to new extremes, when it created a larger version of its already gigantic The Digger…

Dissident Bringing HOME to IPCPR 2015

No, they aren’t actually bringing a physical home. That being said, Dissident’s newest cigar is HOME, a single-size Honduran puro that will be limited in…