Weekly News (Jan. 16, 2023)

Cigar News

• Caldwell’s Long Live The Queen Arrives In Stores
• Cavalier Genève Launching Tres Delincuentes At TPE 2023
• Dan Davison Appointed Director Of Marketing For United Cigars
• Davidoff Brings Back Classic No. 1 For Limited Release 
• Drew Estate Increasing Prices Next Month
• Drew Estate Sending Liga Privada Year Of The Rabbit To COH Cigars
• Don Doroteo Names Garret Robinson VP Of Sales
• E.P. Carrillo Increasing Prices Next Month
• Espinosa Premium Cigars Increasing Prices In February 
• J.C. Newman Promotes Kara Guagliardo
• José Gaspar, J.C. Newman’s Gasparilla Cigar, Returns For 2023
• Kristoff San Andrés Perfecto Arrives At Twins Smoke Shop For 25th Anniversary
• My Father’s Flor de Las Antillas 10th Anniversary Heading To Stores
• Peter James Launches Higher End Black Label Collection Cigar Cases
• Plasencia Year Of The Rabbit Released 
• Powstanie Connecticut Coming Later This Year
• Smoking Now Allowed In House Side Of Congress
• STG Adds La Gloria Cubana Serie R No. 8 Maduro 
• Tatuaje TAA 2022, PCA 2022 Shipping This Week
• Warped Releasing Venture 1492 Gran Corona Next Month
• Warped Teases La Colmena Black Honey Return In 2023
• West Tampa Tobacco Co. Adds Distribution In Ireland & Latvia

Regulations 

State

• New York Governor Calls For Flavored Tobacco Ban, Cigarette Tax Hike
• Wyoming Premium Cigar Tax Cap Clears Committee

Local

• Cincinnati Council Member Suggests Flavored Tobacco Ban for Ohio City — via WXVU
• Eureka, Calif. City Council to Hear Presentation on Tobacco Retailer Licensing — via LostCoastOutpost.com
• Tempe, Ariz. Delays Action on Flavored Tobacco Products Ban — via AZCentral.com
• Waco, Texas May Repeal Ban on New Cigar Lounges — via WacoTrib.com

Reviews

• CAO Vision 2022
• La Gloria Cubana 8th Street
• Micallef Reserva Londres

Deals From Our Sponsors

• Atlantic Cigar Co. — Cavalier Genève BII Viso Jalapa Limited Release 2022 (Box of 10, $117.95)
• Cigar Hustler — Los Statos Toro (Box of 20, $162)
• Cigars Direct — Flor de las Antillas 10th Anniversary 2022 (Box of 12, $500)
• Corona Cigar Co. — La Flor Dominicana Solis (Box of 20, $263.95)
• Famous Smoke Shop — Deadwood Sweet Jane (Box of 24, $139.95)
• Gotham Cigars — Leaf by Oscar Maduro Lancero (Bundle of  20 Cigars, $172.98)
• JR Cigars — 25 Percent Off (CODE: 25NOW)
• LM Cigars — Joya de Nicaragua Número Uno (Box of 25, $415.62)

Brooks Whittington

I have been smoking cigars for over eight years. A documentary wedding photographer by trade, I spent seven years as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I started the cigar blog SmokingStogie in 2008 after realizing that there was a need for a cigar blog with better photographs and more in-depth information about each release. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars. I am a co-founder of halfwheel and now serve as an editor for halfwheel.