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In November 2014, Drew Estate released the Undercrown ShadyXV, a limited edition cigar to the Detroit area that was the result of a collaboration with…

If there’s one trend in the cigar industry that has taken off in recent years, it’s creating limited edition releases for almost every holiday on…

For months, RoMa Craft Tobac co-owner Skip Martin has been teasing a new release, presumably destined for Europe: Wunder|Lust. Last month, Martin went to Europe to…

Last fall, Regius Cigars announced plans to make a limited edition box-pressed corona vitola as a winter release. While it would be banded with the company’s…

At the 2015 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Rocky Patel showed off Tabaquero by Hamlet Paredes. If the name sounds familiar, it is because it belongs…

Oh, what could have been. In 2010, Tatuaje released the first in what was supposed to be annual series of cigars incorporating tobacco that was…

In 2011, Elogio released Excepcionales, an extremely limited release that bucked the trend of what had otherwise been relatively conservative cigars. It was a massive…

Last month, Tampa, Fla.-based retailer Thompson Cigars launched a new exclusive release that it had been working on with Casa Fernández for the past two…

At the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show I was told a plan had been hatched. The plan: Illusione had agreed to be the latest entry…

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Famous Smoke Shop in Easton, Pa. turned to one of the biggest names in the cigar industry for a store-exclusive…

There are some that go away never to be heard from again, and then there’s Steve Saka. When it was announced in 2013 that Saka…