Category: Industry News

This week, Cavalier Genève is shipping the first of three planned 2026 versions of its Project Broadleaf Series. All four cigars—Broadleaf Wayfinders is offered in two vitolas—were released last year; they have come back for 2026 with most details the same as the 2025 releases. That includes the name, packaging, blend and vitola(s). Project Broadleaf Skywalker is a 6 x 48 that uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over a Mexican

The last time I was writing about Cornelius & Anthony, it was 2019 and it was still not confirmed whether the brand was still alive. A year earlier, S&M Brands, Inc., the cigarette company that was owned by the same family, was sold to an undisclosed buyer and subsequently closed down. The Bailey family, which owned S&M, also owned Cornelius & Anthony, and Golden Leaf Tobacco Co., Inc. While the

Late last week, Arturo Fuente began shipping boxes of the newest version of its Shark vitola. The Fuente Fuente OpusX Baby Shark 77 is a new, smaller version of the Shark, a vitola best known for its use in the Añejo line. While the regular Shark measures 5 5/8 x 54, the Baby Shark is thinner and shorter, though the company has still not announced official measurements. The vitola is

El Mago has started shipping a new regular production line that was inspired by the James Hotel in Miami Beach. The James Avenue is actually four different cigars, each a 6 x 54 box-pressed toro. Nick Fusco, founder of El Mago Cigars, told halfwheel that the four releases are not just a case of putting a different wrapper on the same internal blend and that each has a different internal

The latest cigar in Rocky Patel Premium Cigars, Inc.’s unofficial precious metals and stones series is off to stores. This week, the company is shipping the new Rocky Patel Sapphire, a new line from Nicaragua. Blend-wise, it uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper over two binders: one from Estelí, Nicaragua and the other from the Jamastrán Valley in Honduras. The fillers are from the Condega, Estelí and Jalapa regions of

Hamptons Cigar Manufactory & Museum is proud to announce the launch of The Commish Corona, a handcrafted premium cigar that pays homage to the men and women who serve their communities. Available now for Retail, Wholesale, and Private Label orders, The Commish Corona is the newest addition to the Commish line. The Commish Corona draws its name and spirit from the countless local commissioners across every principality of

James J. Fox is pleased to introduce the new James J. Fox Selección, exclusively to the U.K and Ireland. The James J. Fox Selección will be launched at our 19 St James’s Street store on Thursday, 25th June, and will be available to purchase thereafter from our St James’s or Selfridges stores. They will then be introduced to Ireland on July 1st at an event in Dublin. The

While we are in the midst of the fad of cigar companies creating limited edition products to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of America, if there’s been an LE cigar fad of the modern era, it’s making cigars named after the Chinese zodiac calendar and the animal chosen for each year. Just the other day, I was in a liquor store and was pleasantly surprised to see a

Although the cigar industry is quite small when compared to, say, the cell phone industry or the entertainment industry, there are always new companies entering the market that don’t make a splash at first. For me, EGM Cigars was one such company. EGM actually started out as a Swiss retailer selling cigars, but the latest incarnation of the business is an actual cigar brand, not a store. The company is

A new line that Lure Cigars sold exclusively to retailers who attended the  2026 PCA Convention & Trade Show is now on shelves. Last week, Lure Cigars began shipping The Wahoo, a new line that uses Mexican San Andrés wrapper covering a Nicaraguan binder from Estelí and filler tobaccos from Estelí and Jalapa in Nicaragua. Like the rest of the company’s portfolio, the cigars are being made at the La