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News: Crowned Heads Regional Release *Updated*

Recently news began to surface of a regional blend for retailers in the hometown market of Crowned Heads, Tennessee. The cigar will be called Tennessee Waltz which is a nod to the song playing when Jon Huber’s grandfather met his future wife, Huber’s grandmother. The cigar will be made at the My Father Cigar factory in Esteli, Nicaragua and will feature a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Today’s Jon Huber gave a look at the cigar in […]

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News: Gurkha Classic Cigar Havana Blend

Gurkha announces the newest edition to the East India Trading Company line in The Classic Cigar: Havana Blend. This cigar has been perfected using a proprietary binder and filler with twenty different tweakings of the blend to get it just right. With a San Andrés wrapper, The Classic Cigar: Havana Blend is a box-pressed, medium body, full flavor cigar including earthy, nutty undertones. This Nicaraguan blend is now available at $7.99-$9.99 each cigar in a […]

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Cigar Review: Illusione Gigantes

Conspiracy, if there is one person who has embraced them it is Dion Giolito and his company Illusione cigars. However, I feel there might be some type of conspiracy in play here as the company which has embraced small ring gauges has released a cigar with some added girth. The website states, “Critical mass. Heavy in flavor and in size. The illusione *G* Gigantes creates the smoke to fend off thought control allowing an A-1 […]

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Cigar Review: Tierra Volcan

I like to consider myself a cigar geek, and despite Dave and Mr. Jonathan trying to turn that into a negative thing I wear the title with pride. However, this Tierra Volcan caught me off guard when we featured it during our IPCPR videos. Made by Mombacho in Granada, Nicaragua by a company based in Toronto that when we tweeted the video some our our Canadian friends spoke highly of them. Until this year the cigars […]

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Editorial: Stand Up & Be Heard

We have all heard how the FDA wants to regulate tobacco from the extreme possibility of cigars hidden behind a curtain and ordering from a book at your local brick & mortar instead of perusing the humidor. Then there is the definition of a premium cigar which is currently on the table at $10.00. As American citizens we should be proud of the fact that we have a voice. A voice that soldiers have fought to […]

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News: Las Cumbres Second Blend

Recently Jose Blanco formerly of La Aurora and Joya de Nicaragua posted that he was beginning work on a second blend. On his instagram account he began posting pictures of the process. In one picture he is shown examining San Andreas Mexican wrapper and in another smoking binder and filler only. Jose Blanco has entered back into the market with his own company Las Cumbres. His freshman release “Senorial” was well received at the 2014 […]

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Cigar Review: Davidoff Golden Band Awards

Each year at the IPCPR show, Davidoff hosts a dinner in which they give out Golden Band Awards to retailers from around the country. This year our own David Garofalo was a recipient of an award for his service to the industry for his battle of cigar rights throughout his home state of New Hampshire. Once such story that he relayed to me this weekend was how in the state of New Hampshire you could […]

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Cigar News: Tobacco Plant Cures Ebola Patient

In an article posted on Bloomberg News, it seems an Ebola drug made from a tobacco plant has saved U.S. aid workers. The article goes on to say that a small San Diego based company provided an experimental treatment for two Americans who were infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia. The drug appears to be working. The small company of 9 employees released the experimental drug ZMapp which until now has only been […]

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News: Gran Habano Trademark Issue

The US Patent and Trademark Office has sent notice to Santa Cruz cigars, the makers of Gran Habano. The Trademark office states that Gran Habano has mislead the public via use of the word Habano. In the document they believe that the company is attempting to mislead the public into believing they are selling cigars from Cuba. Santa Clara which utilizes tobacco grown in Honduras and Nicaragua is fighting this accusation which was obviously put into […]

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Cigar Review: Fratello Box Press

Fratello Cigars is the brainchild of Omar De Frias. The one thing that strikes me that the cigar has developed a brand instead of adding new blends repeatedly, which seems to be a mistake some new companies make. Instead of developing the name and the brand they look to flood the shelves with product that has yet to be established. At the trade show this year, Fratello introduced a box pressed torpedo in the line. […]

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