Dominican Republic

For the follow up to 2013’s Guerrilla Warfare, Jason Holly of Viva Republica took an approach not often seen in the cigar industry: keeping the…

For a company that has been around since 1904, Royal Agio Cigars isn’t the most well-known cigar company in the United States, but a recent…

Earlier this year, Viaje announced that it would begin making cigars in the Dominican Republic at Abe Flores’ PDR Cigars. It started with the company’s summer…

Originally released in 2010, Summerfest was one of Viaje’s most consistent releases until last year, when it was dropped from the companies release schedule. In…

In 1935, Alonso Menéndez created the Montecristo brand—that sound familiar? That’s how my review of the Montecristo 80 Aniversario started. Yes, this is a different cigar…

In 1895, the first U.S. Open was held at Newport Golf Club in Newport, R.I. At the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Swinger Cigar…

It took some 16 years before the words AVO and lancero were able to be said in the same sentence when referring to an actual…

I first heard about Chogüí Cigars when Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac was visiting the Dominican Republic. While down there, he tweeted about a…

After sensing that his usual practice of shipping cigars to stores in the days surrounding the annual IPCPR Convention & Trade Show might be costing…

Stepping into General Cigar Co.’s booth at this year’s IPCPR Convention and Trade Show, there was a good bit of mystery would be in the…

In May, Las Cumbres Tabaco announced that its second full brand following Señorial would be a blend developed by Emma Viktorsson and Geraldito Perez, the production manager at the…