Cigar News – September 21, 2026 Menendez Amerino at InterTabac 2026. Menendez Amerino is one of the most traditional cigar factories in Brazil. Founded in 1977 by the Menedez family from Cuba and the Amerino family from Brazil, the Menendez Amerino became the biggest manufacture in the country. The company two brands, Alonso Menendez (pays tribute to the patriarch of the Menendez family, creator of the Montecristo brand in Cuba)
Cigar News – September 21, 2026 Platinum Nova Cigars at InterTabac 2026. The main star at this year Intertabac booth of Platinum Nova Cigar is the Royal Falcon. The new release comes into different sizes, Robusto and Toro. The Royal Falcon is a full body cigar with a Habano Oscuro wrapper, Corojo binder and Nicaraguan filler. Nova Cigar booth is a meeting point for their current distributors as Leonor Abzaradel,
Cigar News – September 21, 2026 Meerapfel Cigars at InterTabac 2026. Every year the Meerapfel booth at Intertabac brings a new limited release to life and this year star was the Project 18. The Project 18 is a limited series of 180 chests each one containing 99 cigars. The cigar brings a beautiful Cameroon wrapper, the Meerapfel signature’s leaf in a single vitola, 6 x 50. The chests are made
Last year, AGANORSA Leaf celebrated two decades of its JFR brand by releasing a new line with the somewhat obvious name of JFR 20th Anniversary. JFR is short for just for retailers, and the brand debuted in 2011 as a value cigar to be sold exclusively by brick-and-mortar retailers. Over the years, the brand has become known not only for its wallet-friendly prices but also for its range of larger
Weekly News (Sept. 21, 2026) | halfwheel Altadis U.S.A. Announces Price Changes Altadis U.S.A, one of the largest cigar companies in the U.S., has announced a variety of changes that amount to a mixed bag for retailers, though likely no relief for consumers. The headline is that Altadis US.A. is refunding the surcharges the company charged retailers for the IEEPA-related tariffs. Stores that paid tariff surcharges up to Feb. 23,
Greetings from Dallas. After a quick turnaround, I’ve gone from 15C to 97F. Also, where did the sparkling apple juice go? InterTabac 2026 has come and gone. After some sleep, I’ve got some additional takeaways from the trade show fair in Dortmund, Germany. 1. Some Final Thoughts on China Picking up where Wednesday’s post left off, the other part of the China discussion. China National Tobacco Corp., the largest tobacco
At last week’s InterTabac 2026 trade fair, Artista Cigars and China National Tobacco Corp., the world’s largest tobacco company, announced that the two companies had signed a new cooperation agreement that includes the creation of a new line called Taishan · Artista. Unlike most cigars, Taishan · Artista will be produced in two different factories. El Artista will produce a toro in the Dominican Republic, while China Tobacco Shandong Industry Co.,
Cigar News – September 20, 2026 Creating a space to learn, share, and enjoy cigars in an elegant and authentic way and, above all, among women, is what drove Aurora Membreño to establish the Honduras Women Cigar Club (HWCC). This first gathering at Jerko Cigar Lounge in Tegucigalpa, Honduras marked the beginning of a community that aims to continue growing in Honduras through future gatherings, experiences, educational activities, collaborations with
Earlier this year, Casa Carrillo announced a new regular production line named Ascend, which the company says was inspired by the idea of progression. To that end, the blend was created to feature an evolution of flavors from the beginning to the end, while the three vitolas are named after basic landforms in mountain topography that describe the shapes of hills and mountains from shortest to tallest. The line uses
Cigar News – September 20, 2026 Partnership brings together Dominican tobacco and cigar-making expertise with Chinese production and market reach for the new Taishan · Artista cigar project. Tabacalera El Artista has signed an international cigar cooperation agreement with China Tobacco, establishing a partnership focused on cigar development, manufacturing and international distribution. The agreement was formally signed during InterTabac 2026 in Dortmund, Germany, where the partners also unveiled the Taishan