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Weekly News (May 9, 2011)

I could refer to a lot of points of the year as “the calm before the storm.” But, for the month of May that will be the motto. Slowly over the course of the next few weeks details will begin to emerge about the newest releases for the 2011 IPCPR show in Las Vegas,

Weekly News (March 14, 2011)

Add this to the list of things I forgot last week… Illusione is adding a lot of Maduro. I originally was under the impression that…

State of the Brand: Gurkha

Don’t say I don’t listen to our readers. Back in early February, a reader, who I’ll call “John H.” for this article, asked me if…

Weekly News (March 7, 2011)

A week after Jerry Cruz proclaimed that the only one who did news was CA, and everyone else shouldn’t really try; Jerry did a bit…

Weekly News (February 28, 2011)

And cigar news… (Going to have to find a way to keep the intros interesting, which might be difficult.) This past week was dominated by…

Weekly News (January 10, 2011)

If there was ever a fun week of news… this is going to be it. It’s an eclectic bit of information. Pete Johnson confirmed what…

Editorial: In Response to the Gurkha Raja

Kaizad Hansotia, founder of Gurkha, and a man who I have a lot of respect for when it comes to reinventing cigar packaging, gave an…

Weekly News (November 15, 2010)

Last week when I said Sam Leccia would not be the last one to leave a brand before the end of the year, Tim Ozgener…

Weekly News (August 30, 2010)

As was predicted earlier, Gran Habano discontinued the 3 SLS (also know as the 3 Siglos) and Cabinet Selection. Drew Estate formally announced the Liga…

Gurkha His Majesty’s Reserve

Let me tell you right off the bat. I did NOT pay $750 for this cigar. In fact, I did not pay any money at…