Alec Bradley Cigars has announced a name change for their upcoming spring release. The Black Market Candela – originally referred to as the Alec Bradley Dirty Hooligan – will now be called the Alec Bradley Filthy Hooligan. Continue reading
On January 14th, 2013 Cigar Aficionado announced Herrera Esteli, by Drew Estate, will begin shipping to stores sometime in early February.
Since joining the ranks of Drew Estate, Herrera Esteli brand leader Willy Herrera has been hard at work selecting tobaccos, creating and analyzing test blends and putting together a core team of torcedores (cigar rollers) to bring his cigar visions to life.
West Palm Beach, Florida – In a continuing effort to create limited runs of premium cigars blended by the industry’s top manufacturers, Smoke Inn Cigars of South Florida proudly presents its sixth installment of their MicroBlend Series™, Room101 Big Delicious™. Continue reading
George Rico of Gran Habano Cigars announces “Cigar Deli” – a new cigar blending session made available to end consumers. Continue reading
SAG Imports will release 1,000 boxes of an 8-count Limited Sampler Box set entitled, The Quesada Blender’s Sampler.
Welcome to our 2nd installment of Take 5 – a series aimed at bringing you short, unique perspectives on certain facets within the cigar and/or wine industries. As the name implies, each Take 5 segment is intended to be read/viewed in five minutes or less. Continue reading
Today we’re continuing with our 2012 Year in Review. This time we reach back in to the video archives to talk with Barry Stein, Miami Cigar Company’s assistant director of Marketing and Advertising. In this clip, Barry discusses all the new cigar offerings from Miami Cigar, La Aurora and La Sirena. We also were able to ask Barry about his recent transition from blog owner to landing a marketing job with a major cigar company – enjoy!
Continuing with our 2012 Year in Review, we once again reach back in to the video archives. This time, we meet with the man responsible for bringing Mexican San Andres wrapper to the forefront, Mr. Eddie Ortega. For those who remember, it was the Murcielago (Spanish for Bat) that got the whole Mexican San Andres wrapper craze started. We were able to catch up with Ortega at IPCPR back in August. Here’s what he had to say about the all-new Serie-D…
Here is the 3rd installment of our Year in Review – yet another interview from our 2012 IPCPR video archives. In this clip we catch up with Terence Reilly of SAG Imports to get an in-depth look at the new cigar offerings from Quesada, Casa Magna and Fonseca.
Here’s another interview from our 2012 video archives. In this clip Jose Blanco senior vice president of Joya de Nicaragua shares the vision and reason behind creating the medium-strength flavor-bomb known simply as CyB.