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Back in September of 2014, General Cigar Co. acquired the Toraño Family Cigar company. While no immediate changes were announced, eventually there was a revamp…

In 2011, Habanos S.A. released a total of 25 different Edición Regional cigars, a number that has yet to be matched within any year before or since. Four of…

Hype. To me, hype is not a negative. I actually have a pretty simple definition for it in the cigar world: the disproportionate amount of…

So far, there have been two themes to the cigar world in 2017. One is something you are very familiar with: the U.S. Food &…

There have not been many cigars that have surprised me as much as the Las Calaveras Edición Limitada 2014 LC550. At the time, Crowned Heads  had…

To kick off 2017, Thompson Cigar Co., the well-known online and catalog retailer, announced that it would be selling its own exclusive size of Espinosa Premium…

Illusione doesn’t release new cigar lines every day, let alone every month. Yet in 2016, spurred by the rapidly approaching FDA regulation, Dion Giolito’s company…

In December of 2015, Robert Caldwell released a cigar called Funfetti for JR Cigar that he hoped would be a more balanced version of one…

You’ve probably heard this introduction before: Crowned Heads releases a new line via a soft-launch to a few stores prior to a widespread release the…

In 2014, Miami Cigar & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary and began a new chapter by making numerous changes to the company.. First, Jason Holly, owner of the…

In late 2015, James Brown, the co-owner of Black Label Trading Co., launched a brand named Black Works Studio to showcase “unique premium cigars” produced at the Fabrica…