Weekly News (August 20, 2012)

Editor’s Note: At some point, there will be news. I promise. Until then, the cigar industry is content on shipping the releases shown off at IPCPR, which for now means—quiet.

• Tatuaje TAA 2012 — Details here.
  
• Room 101 Some Ol Bullshit — More coming via Matt Booth.
  
• Davidoff Aniversario Colorado Claro No. 3 — Still no official word from Davidoff, but this tweet from Davidoff’s flagship Manhattan store described this as “new.”
• Bahia is Back — Sort of.
  
• Emilio Carpe Noctem Packaging — In the works per Gary Griffith.
• Australian High Court Uphold Plain Packaging — Story 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.