Category: Industry News

In 2024, Altadis U.S.A. released a variation of its regular production Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Edición Diamante line that was not only made with a different blend but also featured a massive price tag. $150. When it was introduced the Doble Diamante, the limited edition $150 cigar, was actually more expensive than the combined prices of the six cigars that make up the regular production Edición Diamante line. Earlier this year,

La Aurora has announced that it is bringing its Santiago Collection of mixed-filler cigars to the U.S. Next month, the Santiago Maduro will ship to stores. It uses an Indonesian maduro wrapper over an Indonesian binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. In September, the Santiago Connecticut will arrive on shelves; it uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper over an Indonesian binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and

In late 2020, Rojas Cigars announced a new series of cigars named after a popular food served out of street carts throughout Mexico and the U.S. The Street Tacos Series debuted with a cigar called Barbacoa, named after the goat-based dish that is a popular taco filling. During the 2022 PCA Convention & Trade Show, Rojas Cigars showed off the second addition to the Street Tacos Series, named Carnitas, a

Later this week, cigar smokers in the U.K. will be able to get their hands on the Tatuaje RC7, a new regional exclusive, limited edition. It’s a 7 1/2 x 38 lancero, with a blend that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and filler, delivering the RC Series blend in a classic lancero vitola. The cigars are made at My Father Cigars’ factory in Estelí, Nicaragua, with

Zander-Greg is bringing back John T’s, a line of flavored cigars, giving it a new look and expanded distribution in the process. The line dates back to 1984, when the Antonaros family launched the cigars as an evolution of the pipe tobacco blends that debuted just about a decade earlier. Zander-Greg acquired the brand in 2014 with the mission of preserving its history while continuing to offer the quality that

Nearly 18 months after it was announced, the Gold & Bullet is finally shipping to stores. The OpusX Gold & Bullet is the sophomore cigar release for the Fuente The OpusX Society, a collaboration between Arturo Fuente and Manny Iriarte Enterprises. The cigar is a 6 3/4 x 50 parejo, described as a different blend from the OpusX La Edición de la Sociedad, the first release from The OpusX Society.

The Cigar Smoking World Championship grand finale is drawing nearer, and some of the results for the June and July qualifiers have come in. Singapore made its debut, and a few of the big names are really making themselves heard again, building up the excitement for the final. Just as planned. Baltic: Alexander Shagai – 2:27:30Georgia: Gagi Gigauri – 1:30:39Romania: Victor Matei – 1:55:17Latvia: Anastasia Arsenova – 2:26:00Slovakia: Peter

Like many businesses, there are a number of cigar companies that are generational, meaning they pass down from parents to their children, sometimes across multiple generations. Recently, Perdomo has started focusing on the next generation. That has largely come by way of a pair of projects bringing together Nick Perdomo Jr. and Nicholas Perdomo III. Perdomo Jr. is the one who co-founded Perdomo Cigars with his wife, Janine, in 1992.

I think there is a strong case that at the 2026 PCA Convention & Trade Show, no company had a bigger makeover than Valacari. It started nearly a year ago, when the company quietly moved the production of all its cigars from Tabacalera Pages de Nicaragua S.A. to the La Tabacaria Cigars factory. Fast forward to the trade show, it announced that going forward, each of its core lines would

Yesterday, an appeals court ruled in favor of Imperial Brands, plc—a British cigarette company that was once co-owners of Habanos S.A., the Cuban cigar marketing and distribution company—and WPP, an advertising agency, in a case regarding an American law that allows citizens to sue over the trafficking of property that was confiscated by the Cuban government as part of the 1959 revolution. As far as halfwheel knows, Luis Manuel Rodriguez,