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Charlie Minato

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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.

Italy Considers Expanded Smoking Bans

Smoking in parks, beaches, stadiums, cars and on television and films could become illegal in Italy. According to La Repubblica, Beatrice Lorenzin, the country’s health minister,…

Weekly News (Jan. 19, 2015)

Cigar News Altadis U.S.A. Announces Romeo Añejo Blanco Cigars Ships American Legion Extensions Caldwell Announces Nothing You Ever Heard Of Camacho Adds Corojo Godo, Robusto…

Camacho Expands Corojo Line, Announces “The Original Bold Smoke” Campaign

Camacho’s latest focus is a return to the company’s roots: Corojo. Two new SKUs are being added to the Camacho Corojo brand: a new Corojo…

CroMagnon Fomorian Returns for 2015

If the story sounds familiar, it’s because it is. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Skip Martin (@chiefhava) The CroMagnon Fomorian, the…

2014 Awards: The Consensus

The statistical analysis of a highly imperfect system is back. For the last four years we’ve published The Consensus, a statistical analysis of combining all the…

Davidoff’s Tabadom Gets New General Manager

Davidoff has announced that Hamlet Espinal has succeeded Henke Kelner as general manager of Tabadom Holding, Inc., the Dominican-based production company operated by the Swiss giant….

JR Cigar Revamping Brick & Mortar Stores

The changes at JR Cigar keep coming. While the company, which is part of Imperial Tobacco Group—parent of Altadis USA—has spent much of the last…

Weekly News (Jan. 12, 2015)

Cigar News Alec Bradley’s VP of Marketing Leaves Altadis Wins Spanish Chamber of Commerce Award Congrats to Altadis U.S.A. (@CigarWorld) on winning the Spanish Chamber…

Ramón Allones Perfectos (ER Suiza 2014)

In 2011, Habanos S.A. brought back the older green on white band that was once featured on Ramón Allones cigars for the 2011 Edición Limitada,…

2014 Awards: halfwheel 25

Statistically, this past year was fascinating as far as the quality of cigars in relation to this site’s ratings. The staff is pretty much in…

Another LCDH Confirms 2015 Cuban Cigar Release List

Next month, Habanos S.A. will officially announce a large portion of the new Cuban cigars expected in 2015—until then, more La Casa del Habano stores…