Alec Bradley Adds Black Market Illicit for TAA Retailers

At last week’s annual Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA) Meeting & Convention, Alec Bradley offered its first exclusive for retailers since 2013. It’s the Alec Bradley Black Market…

Weekly News (March 20, 2017)

Cigar News Brigham USA Names Doug Kaufman National Sales Manager Caldwell Shipping Blind Man’s Bluff Connecticut This Month Fable Fourth Prime LP Shipping Federal Lands…

New World Atlantic Cigar 20th Aniversario

To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, Atlantic Cigar Co. commissioned four different cigars from four different companies, all of them in the toro vitola. First came the…

Gainesville, Fla. Adopts Parks Smoking Ban

Parks and bus stops in Gainesville, Fla. are now smoke free after the city’s commission approved an ordinance on Thursday by a 4-0 vote. The…

La Flor Dominicana Announces TAA Exclusivo, TAA Celebration 2017

At this week’s annual Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA) Meeting and Convention, La Flor Dominicana began selling its latest cigar made for the group of…

Aging Room Quattro F55M Maduro Concerto

There are a lot of ways to release a cigar, particularly in the wake of regulations by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), but…

Caldwell Shipping Blind Man’s Bluff Connecticut This Month

While most of the focus is on All Out Kings, there will be another new item from Caldwell Cigar Co. shipping in March. Later this…

Rocky Patel Fifty-Five Robusto

With a portfolio as extensive as Rocky Patel’s, names come from all sorts of sources of inspiration. But one thing that has become fairly consistent…

VegaFina Robusto Extra PigTail Añejado 7 Años Launching in May

While the VegaFina brand might be a bit dormant brand in the U.S., its presence internationally is a bit different. Tabacalera S.L.U.—part of the Imperial…

Quesada Reserva Privada Churchill

Federal Cigar has a long history of releasing exclusive cigars to commemorate its various anniversaries, and one of the latest came from Quesada Cigars. The…

Massive New Mexico Tax Increase Defeated

A bill in Mexico that would have tripled the state’s tax on cigars has been defeated. The New Mexico House Taxation and Revenue Committee voted against…