In 2017, Room101’s Matt Booth announced that his partnership with Davidoff—which made and distributed his cigars—was ending and he was retiring. As is more increasingly the...Read More

For the first half of its existence, every year would see E.P. Carrillo release an annual limited edition. That started with its first cigar—Edicion Inaugural...Read More

In June 2016, Davidoff of Geneva USA released a new variant of its box-pressed AVO Syncro Nicaragua line that had debuted one earlier. Named Syncro Nicaragua Fogata,...Read More

There are a number of boutique cigar companies that fly under the radar for most cigars smokers and Principle Cigars might be one of them,...Read More

The World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body has issued a ruling supporting Australia’s tobacco plain packaging requirements and dismissing claims made by the Dominican Republic and...Read More

Every week I seem to find out that there is some phrase or quote that I’ve repeated countless times but have been wrongly attributing it...Read More

For as long as I have been smoking cigars, Quesada has been making cigars. Actually, for as long as I have been alive—and even a...Read More

Since Davidoff of Geneva USA announced its ACCESS program in November 2017 and opened up the Vault Series, it has become a vehicle for the...Read More

Back in 2018, Royal Agio Cigars launched a fairly ambitious project named Serie Signaturas, a series of what would become two releases that would combine the talents...Read More

Most of the tobacco used for cigars is more or less grown, harvested and processed in the same way. Seeds are planted—oftentimes in seedbeds—moved to...Read More

At this point, few new cigars excite me. Part of it is general apathy, part of it is a sort of ethical commitment of trying to...Read More