Weekly News (April 9, 2012)

Editor’s Note: Quietly, it became a busy week. I believe halfwheel is back on track, apologies for the delays.

• La Aurora 100 Años W. Curtis Draper 125th Anniversary — Details here.
• Casa Magna Colorado Gigantores — Details on the single store release here.
• Rocky Patel The Edge Candela — Details here.
• Gran Habano S.T.K. Miami Barracuda Ships — Details here.
• New La Aurora Preferido Color — Which would also mean a new wrapper. Nestor Miranda mentions it late in the video here.
  
• Rodrigo La Fortaleza Debuts — Two retailers, including site sponsor Federal Cigar, received small amounts of prerelease bundles of George Rodriguez’s newest cigar this past week. Picture via George Rodriguez.
  
• Nat Sherman Timeless Lonsdale — Above comes via Michael Herklots. No word on whether there will be more of this.
  
• New Room 101 Ltd — Same story as above. Via Matt Booth.
• Montecristo Epic 2007 — Altadis still has no official response. Brian Hewitt has some details here.
• CAO Announces Last Stick Standing — Details here. This confirmed the two new extensions for OSA SOL.
• Rare Non-Cuban Auction — Details from the upcoming event at Empire Cigars here.
• We Welcomed a New Author — Details here.

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.