Category: Industry News

In January, a Colorado-based vaping trade group sued the City of Denver over its new-for-2026 law that banned the sales of most flavored tobacco and flavored vaping products. Yesterday, June 24, that lawsuit was dismissed. Per The Denver Gazette, Judge Erica F.H. Englert, of the Denver District Court, agreed with the City of Denver that the plaintiff’s lawsuit should be thrown out because the vape groups failed to state a

Escobar Cigars has soft-launched a new cigar called Nasty Esco, which will get a full release later this summer. Details are largely being kept under wraps for now, but the cigar is made at PDR Cigars and is described as a “premium yet low retail cost” offering. It’s being offered in at least a robusto vitola, while a teaser image indicates there is habano tobacco in the blend. It is

The La Aroma de Cuba Habano Reserve has gotten a second vitola. Ashton Distributors, Inc.—the parent of the La Aroma de Cuba brand—has begun selling the new La Aroma de Cuba Habano Reserve El Jefe, a massive 7 x 58 parejo vitola. Blend-wise, the Habano Reserve uses an Ecuadorian habano rosado wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from the Estelí, Jalapa and Namanji regions of Nicaragua. Ashton says that

Just south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is Tobacco World Limited. This is one of the oldest tobacco shops in the Midwest of the USA. Tracey Halvorson is the owner of this fine tobacconist shop which has been around for forty-two years and is grandfathered into the pesky Wisconsin cigar shop laws. Tracey and her husband Tim Sr. put their money together and bought the store when the previous owner died unexpectedly

While probably not the first company you think of, for the last eight years, Drew Estate has been releasing cigars in honor of the Chinese Zodiac calendar, i.e. cigars that are named Year of the ___, a reference to one of the dozen animals on the calendar. Drew Estate—by just about any metric, one of the largest handmade cigar companies in the world—hasn’t made the same impact for a couple

In 2024, Fratello released a cigar named Vice Versa with a unique premise: it could be smoked from either end, with the flavor changing depending on which end you smoked. Starting today, a new blend from the company utilizing the same concept is on its way to stores. Smooth and Strong is a 7 x 52 vitola made with an Ecuadorian habano wrapper covering an Indonesian binder and filler tobaccos

There are cigar events, and then there are moments that become part of industry history. On June 10, 2026, at Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, six of the most revered cigar-making families in the world gathered under one roof for a monumental night to protect the future of premium cigars. Michael Cafagno and Dylan Austin of The Tobacconist of Greenwich hosted The Titans of Tobacco, a sold-out event that

Plasencia Cigars proudly announces the appointment of Rodrigo Medina Mendieta as the company’s first-ever Global Brand Ambassador, a newly created role that reflects both the continued evolution of the brand and Rodrigo’s nearly 11 years of dedication to expanding Plasencia’s presence around the world. Throughout his tenure, Rodrigo has played a key role in the international growth of Plasencia Cigars, helping strengthen the brand’s presence across Europe, Asia,

When I think about cigars that I have seen in retail humidors for longer than I can remember, one brand that inevitably comes to mind is Gran Habano. While the Rico family traces its tobacco roots to 1920, it wasn’t until 2003 that the family would introduce the Gran Habano line of cigars, debuting with the Connecticut No. 1, the Habano No. 3, and the Corojo No. 5. While I

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust has shipped a new release that will look very familiar to fans of Joya de Nicaragua’s Cabinetta line. The Sobremesa Tapa Negra is made with the same blend as Dunbarton’s regular Sobremesa Brûlée line, meaning it uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed G2BW wrapper covering a Mexican Matacapan negro de temporal binder, and Nicaraguan fillers: Condega C-SG, Pueblo Nuevo criollo, La Joya Estelí C-98 and ASP Estelí hybrid