Claudio Sgroi leaves Mombacho Cigars
Claudio Sgroi leaves Mombacho Cigars. After a decade of blending and running Mombacho Cigars, Claudio Sgroi is leaving the Nicaraguan cigar manufacturer. But Sgroi remains active…
July 22, 2022
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Nordic Cigars is flooding Norway with new cigars
Nordic Cigars is flooding Norway with new cigars. There is a large shipment on its way from the Dominican Republic. Another large shipment of aged cigars…
July 22, 2022
Weekly news week 12 2021
Weekly news week 12 2021. Due to sad family circumstances, I had to fly from my slice of heaven in Asia to Europe. Where covid-19 is…
July 22, 2022
HENK releases three new sizes of the HENK Maori cigars
HENK releases three new sizes of the HENK Maori cigars. And HENK wouldn’t be HENK if they would come in a regular box. The cigars come…
July 22, 2022
Italy gets a Ramon Allones Edicion Regional
Italy gets a Ramon Allones Edicion Regional. The 2020 exclusivo Italia is going to be a Ramon Allones Noellas. And even though the cigars share the…
July 22, 2022
Asylum Cigars meets Carfellas
Asylum Cigars meets Carfellas. About a decade ago, Discovery Channel had a new reality-tv show about cars. Car shows are popular, but most are about restoring…
July 22, 2022
Habanos releasing Harimau Malaya
Habanos releasing Harimau Malaya, the San Cristobal de la Habana Exclusivo Malaysia. Exactly a year ago, we published a list of cigars for the 2020 Regional…
July 22, 2022
Cumpay adds Robusto Maduro
Cumpay adds Robusto Maduro. Maya Selva is adding a new cigar to the Cumpay collection. It is part of the Puro Nicaragua line and it comes…
July 22, 2022
Fire destroys Alec Bradley tobacco
Fire destroys Alec Bradley tobacco. Several curing barns and greenhouses at Finca La Musica in Jamastran have been destroyed by a fire Thursday afternoon local time.…
July 22, 2022
Alec Bradley changing box sizes
Alec Bradley changing box sizes. From July 2021 onwards, almost all cigars from Alec Bradley will come in boxes of 24 cigars. The new boxes are…
July 22, 2022
A Brazilian Shade Macanudo Inspirado is coming
A Brazilian Shade Macanudo Inspirado is coming. General Cigars, the premium handmade cigar manufacturer for Scandinavian Tobacco Group is releasing a new Macanudo Inspirado. This time…
July 22, 2022
Joya de Nicaragua and charity
Joya de Nicaragua and charity. Cigar charities, quite a good number of cigar brands run or support a charity program. And there are a few distributors…
July 22, 2022 STG stops distributing La Aurora in Belgium
STG stops distributing La Aurora in Belgium. For the longest time, Scandinavian Tobacco Group was the distributor for La Aurora in The Benelux. A few years…
July 22, 2022
Dunbarton is now available in Belgium
Dunbarton is now available in Belgium and Luxembourg. Starting today Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust® cigars will be available in the Belgium and Luxembourg markets through Media…
July 22, 2022
Weekly news week 13 2021
Weekly news week 13 2021. When you think of tobacco fields, you automatically think of Latin America. We all know the pictures of seas of green…
July 22, 2022
Joya de Nicaragua is entering Belgium
Joya de Nicaragua is entering Belgium. It is weird that a cigar brand that has been active in Europe longer than most, if not all, new…
July 22, 2022
Arturo Fuente expands the Rare Pink line
Arturo Fuente expands the Rare Pink line. This line is quite new and available since last year. Liana Fuente is the driving force behind the Rare…
July 22, 2022
J Cortes assigns new sales agent in Asia
J Cortes assigns a new sales agent in Asia. The Vandermarliere group, which includes Oliva Cigars, Neos, J. Cortes and other machine-made cigars assigns Asia Marketing…
July 20, 2022
Mombacho names a new General Manager
Mombacho names a new General Manager. And it’s the rising star of the cigar industry, Indiana Ortez. Mombacho needs a new general manager and master blender…
July 20, 2022
Davidoff brings back Zino
Davidoff brings back Zino. With the slogan ‘live life from A to Z’ Davidoff hopes to reach open-minded and spontaneous aficionados. The Swiss company promises exciting…
July 20, 2022
Protocol expands Sir Robert Peel Line
Protocol expands Sir Robert Peel Line. The Sir Robert Peel Line is part of the Lawmen series. It is named after the former British minister and…
July 20, 2022
PCC presents Harimau Malaya
PCC presents Harimau Malaya, the first-ever Exclusivo Malaysia from Habanos. The regional distributor, Pacific Cigar Company and Cohiba Atmosphere Kuala Lumpur did a virtual presentation via…
July 20, 2022
Weekly news week 14 2021
Weekly news week 14 2021. A new month, so a new episode of our series on legends of the cigar industry. Each first Sunday of the…
July 20, 2022
Tatuaje is releasing an advent calendar
Tatuaje is releasing an advent calendar at the end of this year. Pete Johnson teased Tatuaje fans with a picture of an advent calendar on his…
July 20, 2022
Jessi Flores joins Mombacho Cigars
Jessi Flores joins Mombacho Cigars as the creative director. This is already the fifth change for the Nicaraguan cigar brand from Granada in the last few…
July 20, 2022
Another Habanos specialist in Africa
Another Habanos specialist in Africa. The number of Habanos specialists in Africa is growing quickly. In the past few months, the exclusive Habanos distributor for Africa,…
July 20, 2022
Davidoff Clubhouse also coming to the United States
Davidoff Clubhouse also coming to the United States. Last week, Oettinger Davidoff shared the news that a small batch of 330 packs of Davidoff Club House…
July 20, 2022
International exclusive from AJ Fernandez
International exclusive from AJ Fernandez. Abdel Fernandez is joining the growing number of brands that release a cigar exclusive for the international markets. With that, he…
July 20, 2022
Tarazona Cigars announces a new Limited Edition
Tarazona Cigars announces a new Limited Edition. The new Tarazona La Tampeña is the first Edicion Limitada from the Tarazona Discovery Series. It is an homage…
July 20, 2022
Crowned Heads is releasing another limited
Crowned Heads is releasing another limited. Even though the Mil Dias is a very new blend from the Nashville cigar company, it is already the second…
July 20, 2022