The first half of this week’s show will actually be about PCA 2022, not PCA 2023.

Last year, we closed our Countdown to PCA 2022 with Brooks Whittington and me naming 10 new products we were looking forward to seeing at PCA 2022. Today, we’re going to take a look back and provide our thoughts on how those cigars and cigar accessories actually were. We’ve smoked some of the cigars—we’ve even reviewed a couple—and we’ve gotten to use some of the accessories. Now we’re going to look back at how we think those products made an impact or left something on the table.

We’ll close the show by going over some of the recent announcements related to new products for PCA 2023.

You may also watch and comment via halfwheel’s Facebook page.

And perhaps we will have no audio issues this week.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.