For the last five years, we’ve constantly been writing about how what’s old is new again. It’s a phenomenon brought on, in my opinion, by two main forces: 1. the feeling from most cigar companies that they need to consistently be introducing “new” items; 2. FDA regulations have encouraged cigar companies to reintroduce discontinued lines...Read More
Retailers in Austria have begun selling a new VegaFina made just for the country. The VegaFina Vindobona Exclusivo Austria is a 6 1/4 x 50 toro with a pigtail cap. It uses an Ecuadorian wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and Dominican and Nicaraguan fillers. As the name implies, it is being sold only in Austria...Read More
Yesterday, the Council of the District of Columbia voted in favor of banning flavored tobacco. The vote was 9-3 with one member voting as present. This was the first reading, meaning the measure will need to pass a second reading—likely later this month—and will then need to be signed into law by Mayor Muriel Bowser....Read More
The Saga Short Tales Tomo VII – Tales of the Land: Navarrete will be the seventh cigar in De Los Reyes’ Saga Short Tales Series. The 5 x 52 box-pressed robust uses a Nicaraguan habano wrapper over a Dominican San Vicente binder and three different Domincan fillers: criollo 98, HVA and piloto cubano. The name...Read More
United Cigars’ newest line will come from the fields of Julio Eiroa. The company has announced that has begun shipping its new Abuelo line, a four-size line made entirely of Honduran tobacco from the Eiroa family farms in Las Lomas, Honduras. It uses a Honduran habano wrapper over a corojo binder and corojo fillers. Keeping...Read More
Oettinger Davidoff AG announced that it generated CHF 423 million ($470.7 million) in revenue for 2020, a 6.7 percent decline compared to the CHF 453 million it reported for 2019. The company said that the effects of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the global travel and duty-free businesses, as well as negative exchange rates are...Read More
Crowned Heads’ exclusive release for the 2021 PCA Convention & Trade Show will be another French-named food-inspired cigar. It’s called Le Pâtissier, the French term for pastry chef, a 6 1/4 x 44 lonsdale that uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over a binder from Jalapa, Nicaragua and fillers from Costa Rica, as well as the Ometepe...Read More
There is yet another attempt to prevent children from working in tobacco fields in the U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., have reintroduced The Children Don’t Belong on Tobacco Farms Act, which would prevent anyone from the under age of 18-years-old from working in a tobacco field in the U.S. Currently,...Read More
