When your cigar company is named after the Cayman Islands, it only makes sense to name a cigar after one of the islands’ most famous residents: the tortuga. Tortuga is the Spanish word for turtle or tortoise, so it’s a generic term for the roughly five species of turtles who make the Cayman Islands their home. The animals are so plentiful that Christopher Columbus originally dubbed the Cayman Islands as
Around Thanksgiving, RoMa Craft Tobac will release a new sampler full of toros, two of which will be new. The El Catador de los Gran Toros follows in a long line of El Catador samplers for RoMa Craft. As it has done in the past, these samplers will contain each of the company’s blends in a single vitola. This time it’s the 6 x 54 toro extra vitola. Last year, RoMa
The two newest cigars from Liga Tridente, the brand started by entertainer Marlon Wayans, have begun arriving at retailers across the country. The first new release is the Liga Tridente Rosado Churchill, a 7 x 46 vitola which uses a rosado oscuro wrapper, a criollo 98 binder, and fillers from Colombia alongside a habano-seed varietal. Other than disclosing the Colombian tobacco in the filler, the origins of the other tobacco
The Matilde Serena line has a new vitola, the blend’s smallest size to date. It’s the Matilde Serena Perla, a 4 x 40 petit corona. The Serena is a regular production line that debuted a decade ago. It uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper over a Dominican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. The cigars are rolled at Tabacalera Palma in the Dominican Republic. While the Perla will
Yesterday, Gov. JB Pritzker passed a $56 billion budget deal, which included it in are multiple changes to how cigars are taxed in the state. The good news is that beginning Jan. 1, 2027, there will be a 75-cent cap on the excise taxes for cigars, excluding little cigars. This will mean lower prices for virtually every handmade cigar sold in the state. The state has a tax rate of
Fans of the Wolverines, there’s a cigar for you. Bocock Brothers, a Houston-based company that has largely pivoted to making officially-licencesed collegiate cigars, has started shipping its latest release, made in honor of the University of Michigan’s 2026 NCAA men’s basketball championship. The Bocock Brothers Michigan 2026 National Championship is a 6 x 52 toro that uses a Honduran maduro wrapper over a Honduran binder and fillers from Honduras, Nicaragua
There’s a new shipment from Viaje shipping next week, included in it is the first cigar from an all-new line from the company. The Viaje Honey Bale is a new Nicaraguan-made brand. While a company spokesperson declined to answer questions about the blend or which factory is making the cigar, a post on social media explains the inspiration for the new release. “In every harvest, most bales meet expected standards
Two new releases from Crowned Heads/OZ Family Cigars are heading to stores today. One is a regular production item, the other is a limited edition. The regular production item is the Moonflower, a new line from the My Father factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, the first time in a decade that Crowned Heads has a new regular production line from the factory. Blend-wise, it is a Nicaraguan puro with a corojo-seed
This week, Brazil’s third Edición Regional went on sale, as the La Gloria Cubana Série Brasíl No.3 arrived at cigar stores across the country. It is a 5 1/2 (140mm) x 52 pyramid vitola, a size called Campanas that is likely best known as the one used for the Bolívar Belicosos Finos. It’s also the same vitola as the Romeo y Julieta Belicosos and Sancho Panza Belicosos. Production is limited
Kristoff has announced plans to release a milder version of its Pistoff Kristoff line, aptly named the Mildly Pistoff Kristoff. The new line extension uses an Ecuadorian-grown, Connecticut-seed wrapper in place of the Mexican San Andrés wrapper of the original, while the binder and filler use the same Indonesian binder, and Nicaraguan and Pennsylvania broadleaf filler as are used on the current Pistoff Kristoff, which debuted in July 2016. The