In 2017, Room101’s Matt Booth announced that his partnership with Davidoff—which made and distributed his cigars—was ending and he was retiring. As is more increasingly the...Read More

In 2016, AJ Fernandez Cigar Co. introduced a new regular production line named Bellas Artes, which translates to fine arts from Spanish and was supposedly inspired by...Read More

There was a time, maybe even a two-year period, where it seemed like Curivari could graduate from a small, somewhat unknown manufacturer to the next...Read More

Jerry Cruz was still working for Stogie Review, Brooks Whittington was writing news stories for halfwheel—what a time 2013 was in the cigar world. In an interview...Read More

In the past few years, Riverside Cigar Shop & Lounge has put together an impressive collection of store exclusive releases from several manufacturers including the...Read More

If there’s a company that seemingly has had no trouble coming up with new cigar lines, it’s Viaje. While the company offers traditional lines such...Read More

If you asked me what General Cigar Co. has been doing with its version of the Hoyo de Monterrey brand lately, I’d say it’s been...Read More

For the first half of its existence, every year would see E.P. Carrillo release an annual limited edition. That started with its first cigar—Edicion Inaugural...Read More

In June 2016, Davidoff of Geneva USA released a new variant of its box-pressed AVO Syncro Nicaragua line that had debuted one earlier. Named Syncro Nicaragua Fogata,...Read More

When it comes to the story behind a cigar, much of the time it comes from the head of the company, but in the case...Read More

If you could hop into a time machine and go back 15 years, I imagine that someone at Altadis U.S.A.—or more specifically, its current parent...Read More