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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.

Tobacco Plaza Lands Quesada España Ninfa

The latest box of the Quesada España Ninfa is heading to Tobacco Plaza of Great Neck, N.Y. It is the sixth cabinet of the 7…

Asylum Begins Shipping Extra Large Cigar Cases

Asylum Cigars has begun shipping its new line of cigar cases made for the company’s lines of extra large cigars. In theory, the cases will…

Robert Levin Named New CRA Chairman

Robert Levin has been named the new chairman of Cigar Rights of America (CRA). The announcement comes only a few days after Jeff Borysiewicz, a co-founder…

Fratello Slates Boxer for June

Fratello will release its first extension to the company’s eponymous line this month. The Fratello Boxer, a 6 1/4 x 52 box-pressed torpedo, will debut…

Washington D.C. Keeps Cigar Exemption

A proposed 80 percent tax on premium cigar in Washington D.C. will not happen. The Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Support Act of 2014 originally included raising…

Oklahoma Smoking Bans & Age Restrictions Fail

The end of May meant the end of the Oklahoma Legislature’s current session. With that, a variety of proposed tobacco-related laws. Oklahoma is now the…

Reinado Announces Grand Empire Reserve Ecuador Edition

Reinado’s plans for a Connecticut have turned. The company has announced that it will be releasing the Grand Empire Reserve Connecticut Edition in a single…

A.J. Fernandez Announces Robbie Streitz As New National Sales Manager

Robbie Streitz will replace Spence Drake as the national sales manager for A.J. Fernandez. The news comes after Drake informed the company of his resignation…

RoMa Craft Tobac Teases Box-Pressed Intemperance BA XXI

Later this year, a box-pressed version of the Intemperance BA XXI will arrive on the market as a single store exclusive. Skip Martin of RoMa…

Forest Grove Reverses Course, Expands Proposed Smoking Ban

A week after Forest Grove, Ore. removed the inclusion of all city-owned or leased properties as part of a proposed smoking ban, it’s back on…

Weekly News (June 2, 2014)

Cigar News Nestor Miranda Collection Debuts This Week My Father Ships La Antiguedad Eiora Maduro Announced Viaje Ships Skull and Bones FOAB, MOAB and Cloudmaker,…