Weekly News (May 30, 2011)
Editor’s Note: Outside of the Monday news, this site has seen various formats in its news… For the next week, there will be at least…
Weekly News (May 16, 2011)
Editor’s Note: A lot of tidbits of cigars that we haven’t mentioned this week, but the two major stories are the information regarding the El…
Review: Montecristo 75th Aniversario Lancero
Montecristo is a relatively young brand given it often is mentioned in the same breath as Romeo y Julieta, Partagás and H. Upmann. Amongst the…
Weekly News (January 24, 2011)
On Tuesday, we broke the news regarding the discontinuation of the AVO 787. La Sirena, Miami Cigar & Co.’s newest release, is in Miami at the warehouse, should be at retailers in a few days. In other news from Miami Cigar & Co., the La Aurora Corojo will be released at the 2011 IPCPR show. For anyone that was at the show this past year, you’ll know it was one of the cigars featured at the booth, however packaging and branding concerns led to a decision to relaunch and release the cigar in July. It will feature new packaging and banding, but the cigar itself will be the same. La Aurora also announced that the 1495 BME Sumo Short Robusto will be making it’s U.S. debut. The NUb-style cigar has been in the European markets since early fall, and Miami Cigar & Co. has now decided to bring the cigar to the U.S. market. It’s 4 x 58 and should be available in a few packaging options, including boxes of five. In other large ring gauge news, the Cain F NUb is also shipping this week, the post from when we originally broke the story now has price points for the two sizes. In other Oliva/Studio Tobac news, rumor has it the Studio Tobac tour will start on el niño diablo’s birthday.
Weekly News (December 6, 2010)
The impressive C. Gars Ltd Auction finished, with 85% of the lots selling. The ten highest selling lots: Lot 141 Fidel Castro Presidencia Humidor by…
Weekly News (October 4, 2010)
This past week has been nothing but crazy. Only a few hours after posting the news for the week of September 28th, Dion Giolito of…
Weekly News (September 27, 2010)
The fight over the proposed park and beach ban in New York City continued, the IPCPR issued its own statement here. In addition, the loophole…
Introducing the Montecristo Clubs
Yesterday Habanos S.A. announced the new Montecristo Clubs. The machine made cigars are offered in tins of fifty and packs of twenty. The Clubs are…
Montecristo C (EL 2003)
In 2003, Habanos S.A. released one of its multitude of Edición Limitadas, the Montecristo C, a corona gorda with a wrapper aged two years. There’s not…
Montecristo Maravilla (2005)
Released in 2005 as part of the Colección Habanos, there were only 500 boxes of 20 Montecristo Maravillas produced. The cigar itself is a huge monstrosity,…
