General Cigar Co.

This year General Cigar Co.’s Macanudo brand celebrates its 50th anniversary. Typically, the approach to the celebration would be a high-priced limited edition release to…

If I had to give an award for the best trade show walkthrough, it would go to General Cigar Co. Each tour is a series…

While General Cigar Co. has been able to successfully breathe new life into its CAO and La Gloria Cubana brands, Punch has seen a consistent…

While it may not be the first thing that comes to mind when the word Cohiba is mentioned, the notion of expensive generally comes to mind, and…

For its contribution to the 2018 Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA) Exclusive Series Program, General Cigar Co. released a new cigar for its CAO brand,…

While still a relatively new idea for the general smoking consumer, cigars incorporating barrel-aged tobacco have been around for quite a while. In fact, one…

CAO has nearly 25 years in the cigar market, consecutively at least, and yet, the brand’s library of releases has never included a cigar with…

General Cigar Co.’s Macanudo brand is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a number of releases, the first of which is the Inspirado Red….

It’s arguably one of the most storied releases in the history of General Cigar Co.: the Partagas 150. The line celebrated the 150th anniversary of…

For one of its new domestic releases this year, General Cigar Co. unveiled a pair of new additions to its storied Macanudo line: the Macanudo…

General Cigar Co. has not gotten credit for the job it has done with CAO. When the company took over the brand in 2011, the…