Laranja Reserva Baixo
To kick off 2017, Thompson Cigar Co., the well-known online and catalog retailer, announced that it would be selling its own exclusive size of Espinosa Premium…
Arkansas Legislator Introduces Bill to Raise State’s Tobacco Age to 21
Make it 19 states that have had bills seeking to raise the tobacco purchase age to 21-years-old introduced in their legislatures this session, as Arkansas…
Weekly News (Feb. 27, 2017)
Cigar News Caldwell Expanding Midnight Express Sabotage Lancero La Aurora ADN Dominicano Debuts at Procigar 2017 Manuel Quesada 70th Announced Maya Selva Unveils Villa Zamorano…
Paso Robles, Calif. Passes Smoking Ban, Includes Parks
Paso Robles, Calif. has passed a thorough new smoking ban, codifying the prohibition on smoking in all city-owned, leased, or operated buildings; within all places…
Tobacco Age Increase Proposed in Florida
While it remains to see which state–if any–will become the third in the country to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21, a…
Illusione Rothchildes CT
Illusione doesn’t release new cigar lines every day, let alone every month. Yet in 2016, spurred by the rapidly approaching FDA regulation, Dion Giolito’s company…
Maya Selva Unveils Villa Zamorano Reserva
Bolstering its economically-priced Villa Zamorano line, Maya Selva Cigars has announced the release of the Villa Zamorano Reserva, which the company says uses a higher…
Procigar 2017: Day 2
Like most days during the Procigar Festival, Tuesday’s wake up call came all too early as a couple of us closed out Monday night under…
Caldwell Funfetti
In December of 2015, Robert Caldwell released a cigar called Funfetti for JR Cigar that he hoped would be a more balanced version of one…
Procigar 2017: Day 0
Charlie Minato and I are back in the Dominican Republic for the Procigar Festival, the annual celebration of the country’s cigar industry, and which this…
Weekly News (Feb. 20, 2017)
All of us at halfwheel extend our condolences to the Plasencia and Fernandez families this week, as Ahmed Fernandez, deputy manager for the company’s Nicaraguan factory, passed…
