Costa Rica

The Cypher 3311 pays tribute to Major A. T. Casdagli, who was captured by the Nazis during World War II. The cigars in this line are all aged for a year and come in packaging that pays tribute to Casdagli’s needlework creations.

Retailer exclusives are nothing new in the cigar industry, nor are exclusives to groups of retailers, such as the Tobacconists’ Association of America. Yet sometimes…

While adding a new vitola to a line is a relatively straightforward and uneventful announcement, in the case of the Daughters of the Wind Robusto, it…

If you’re going to create a new series of premium cigars, there are worse places to turn that some of Western civilization’s greatest painters and…

A couple of weeks ago I was doing some reorganization of halfwheel’s office humidors in an effort to consolidate half-opened boxes and create some free space….

In May, Casadagli Cigars announced a brand new line named Villa Casdagli, after the home of Emmanuel Casdagli, a Greek businessman who began the family’s Cairo-based cotton business in…

In 2007, Pure Aroma Cigars, Inc. released a five-vitola line under its Diplomacy Series named the D’Crossier Golden Blend. It was made up of an Ecuadorian…

If I had to name unique cigar brands from a company perspective, El Septimo seems like a strong candidate. It’s a brand that was largely…

At the 2019 IPCPR Convention Trade Show, Casdagli was showing off a few new items, but only one of them was a new cigar, a…

These days, overnight FedEx packages and two-hour Prime Amazon deliveries are the norm, but there was a time when a man riding on a horse…

Naming cigars after Estelí, Nicaragua’s cigar capitol, is nothing new. Most of the time when the city’s name is used, it’s because either the tobacco…