Perez-Carrillo Pledge Purple Robusto Coming Next Week
Casa Carrillo is adding a robusto size to its Perez-Carrillo Pledge Purple line, and it’s expected to begin shipping to stores next week. It’s a 5 1/4 x 52 box-pressed vitola, and uses the same blend as the other sizes in the line, meaning a Connecticut-grown, havana-seed wrapper from Dunn & Foster that comes from the same crop used for the cigars in the original Pledge line’s debut in 2020.
Growers
Land of the Wrapper Leaf: Touring Jalapa With Nestor Plasencia
The journey north in Nicaragua from Estelí to Jalapa is a long and sometimes bumpy one, but worth the ride if you want to fully understand Nicaragua’s diverse tobacco regions. The closer you get to Jalapa, the more you see that nature has free reign, as the landscape remains wild and unspoiled, the roads still pitted and unpaved. While Estelí is known for its distinctively powerful, spicy leaf, many cigarmakers turn to Jalapa and its cooler climate for elegant wrappers and more subtle tobacco. Few people are as familiar with Jalapa as the Plasencia family, the largest growers of premium tobacco in all
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Industry News
Marvin Shanken, Cigar Aficionado Founder, 1943-2026
Marvin R. Shanken, the founder and publisher of Cigar Aficionado, has passed away. The magazine, as well as its sister publication, Wine Spectator, announced Shanken’s passing on
Vector Adds Two New Colors for Arsenal Lighter
Vector-KGM has been busy lately adding new color options to a number of its products, and today the company announced that it has added a
MBombay Kesara Pyramid 2020 & MQBA Mayura Pyramid 2019 Showing Up on Shelves
MBombay has announced the release of two new limited edition pyramid vitolas, each with at least five years of age on them. The first cigar
My Father Releasing Limited Edition Le Bijou 1922 Connecticut in November
My Father Cigars has announced that next month, it will be releasing a limited edition version of its Le Bijou 1922 line that uses a
Guides
MBombay to Release Limited Edition Kesara and MQBA Mayura Pyramids | Cigar News
MBombay Kesara and MQBA Mayura Pyramid MBombay Cigars will release two limited-edition pyramids: the Kesara Pyramid rolled in 2020, and the MQBA Mayura Pyramid rolled in
The Smoking Syndicate: Curivari Buenaventura Cremas C100
Maracana Toro by Oz Family Cigars | Cigar Review
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