Montecristo Ciudad de Música Heading to TAA Stores

The city of music is heading to TAA stores. Altadis U.S.A. has announced that its collaboration with Crowned Heads—the Montecristo Ciudad de Música—is now being…

Curivari Achilles La Iliada No.2

For a cigar company who has products on the shelves of a fair number of retailers, few are as otherwise quiet as Curivari. The company…

AVO Improvisation 30 Years Slated for March

This year the AVO brand celebrates its 30th anniversary. It is doing so with a handful of new releases—including bringing back two former lines and…

Atabey Launching Three New Vitolas in March

Last year, Atabey showed off five new vitolas marked as future releases, next month three of those cigars will head to stores. On March 7,…

Mankato, Minn. Rejects Tobacco Age Increase Proposal

On Monday night, the city council of Mankato, Minn. rejected a proposal to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21-years-old,…

Viaje 5th Anniversary (2017)

It’s rare that I wait just over five years to revisit a cigar, yet that’s exactly the case with a redux of the Viaje 5th…

AVO Maduro, Signature Returning for 2018

In 2015, Davidoff of Geneva USA trimmed the AVO portfolio in half, discontinuing the AVO Maduro and AVO Signature lines. Now—as part of the brand’s…

AVO 22, LE05 Returning in 2018

The two most legendary AVO limited editions are coming back this year: AVO 22 and AVO LE05. Avo Uvezian celebrated 2002 by paying tribute to…

Watch Live: AVO 30th Anniversary Collection + Speaker Giveaway (3 p.m. EST)

Today at 2 p.m. I’ll be in Tampa to interview Scott Kolesaire, the brand manager for AVO, about the brand’s 30th anniversary and the cigars…

Weekly News (Feb. 12, 2018)

Cigar News A.J. Fernández Adds Starky Arias as Marketing Director Boveda Adds Benjamin Patock for European Operations Caldwell Releases L’ Escalade in Switzerland Crowned Heads’…

Viaje Circa ’45 Maduro No. 2

In 2016, Viaje introduced a new cigar line just for Europe—or so that was the plan. Circa ’45 was shown off at the 2016 Inter-tabac…