After taking a year off for 2025, the Villiger TAA Exclusive Series is returning for 2026. From 2020-2024, Villiger used its TAA Exclusive releases as a way to work with different factories, using five different factories from three different countries. For 2026, Villiger is turning to its own Nicaraguan factory, Villiger de Nicaragua. The Villiger TAA Exclusive 2026 is a 6 x 52 box-pressed toro that uses an Ecuadorian habano
While the bundle may have a sticker with a ghost-like figure on it, Viso Horny’s Ligador Fantasma isn’t a Halloween-themed cigar, but rather a tribute to the people who live in Nicaragua and blend the cigars so many people smoke, often in anonymity and referred to as ghost blenders. Tyler Jeffery, founder of Viso Horny, described the backstory of the line on Instagram: Back in October, I spent a few
The Indonesian Cigar Festival 2026 (ICF) brought together Indonesia’s local cigar industry with elements of culture, lifestyle, and entertainment in a three-day event held at Bali Collection, The Nusa Dua, Bali, from October 1 to 3, 2026. The festival served as a platform for Indonesian cigar brands, manufacturers, retailers, communities, and enthusiasts to showcase the country’s growing cigar industry while introducing Indonesian cigars to a wider domestic and international audience. The 2026
Ikeda has developed a distinctive artistic practice around a material familiar to cigar enthusiasts but rarely considered outside its original context: the decorative ribbon. After a box is opened and the ribbon has completed its purpose, it is often discarded or forgotten. Ikeda collects these ribbons and transforms them into art. Rather than treating them simply as recycled materials, however, he sees each ribbon as a fragment of cigar culture.
In November 2025, what was billed as the final installment in the Concealed Carry line was released. Concealed Carry is a project by Omar de Frias of Fratello Cigars, which was designed to release to release “limited one-time production blends that have been curated and selected from undisclosed factories in the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua.” Turns out, there’s another round. The Concealed Carry Second Edition is a six-installment line
The third and perhaps final release of Warped Cigars’ Maestro del Tiempo 6102R has, per Cigar Aficionado, gone on sale. Introduced in 2016, the Maestro del Tiempo 6102R 2026 is a 5 1/4 x 48 Nicaraguan puro that is a tweaked version of Warped’s Maestro del Tiempo line. Both cigars include medio tiempo tobacco from Estelí in the filler. Medio tiempo is the highest priming on a tobacco blend, above the
Best Cigar Prices, a large retailer based in Drums, Pa., has announced that John Greeby is joining the company as its vp of merchandising. The company says that he will lead its “merchandising strategy, focusing on product assortment, vendor partnerships, promotional planning, inventory management, and margin growth.” “I’m incredibly excited to be joining the Best Cigar Prices team,” said Greeby in a press release. “BCP has a strong reputation in
I vaguely remember when Reinier Lorenzo, founder of HVC Cigars, told me about a new release called Pan Caliente. It was a remarkably different time for his company, which hadn’t even celebrated its fifth anniversary. At the time, many of the company’s cigars were made in Honduras, including the original Pan Caliente, which was a 5 x 50 robusto with a 109-style cap. Lorenzo, in his thick Cuban accent and
Hooten Young’s second release of Midnight Hammer, named after the 2025 American bombing of Iran, is on the way to stores. Midnight Hammer 2026 uses the same vitola and blend as last year’s release: a 6 x 60 torpedo made with a Mexican San Andrés maduro wrapper covering a binder and filler blend of Nicaraguan tobacco. It has an unfinished, “shaggy” foot, and the cigars are being rolled at the
Noel Rojas of Rojas Cigars has long proclaimed himself “king of the small ring gauge,” and this November, he will be releasing a new limited edition called the Rojas KSG Limited Edition 2026 to further cement his claim. It’s a 6 1/2 x 42 lonsdale with a blend that uses an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and filler. It’s a new blend for the KSG series, using tobacco