It’s been a crazy week in New Hampshire as the Urban Artists & Cigar Collective known as URNY launched Back2Back at Two Guys Smoke Shop Nashua, NH. The event began Thursday as the 2ESAE and SKI treated the façade as a giant canvas. We will catch up with them on the show and talk about their art and relationship with Davidoff Cigars. We will light up two cigars from the launch, the first being the […]
There were a lot of new cigars and line extensions for national distribution at the 2018 IPCPR show in Las Vegas and we had hoped to get to them last week and discuss what Dave bought that will be coming to his stores soon. We never got to them, but it makes for another show so here we go and we will let you know what to expect in the coming weeks and months. We […]
Dave has a flown back from Las Vegas and boy are his arms tired! We will catch up on everything IPCPR with two guests. In the first hour we will be joined by John McTavish from Developing Palates who wears two hats. One for media and the other as a retailer from Canada. Dave and John will share their thoughts as we smoke the 22N / 83W from the July care package. In the second […]
It’s the shortest day of the IPCPR Trade Show in Las Vegas and most companies choose to go with reduced personal at the booth. But there is still business being conducted and David Garofalo stopped by the Crowned Heads to show us the new items on display. The first item was the 6 x 60 Luminosa Gigantes LE 2018. It’s the first time Jon Huber and gang have released a 60 ring gauge cigar, and […]
Back in 2016 just before the FDA regulations went into effect, Recluse Cigars released 10 different cigars with an abundance of vitolas for each line. In 2018, the company was moving one of those cigars into national distribution as they are expected to do over the next decade. The Recluse Los Cabos was on display at the 2018 IPCPR and it features a San Andres Oscuro wrapper over a Sumatra binder with fillers using three […]
If there was one company that had probably the most “new” things on display it was Joya de Nicaragua and Drew Estate. Over the past two weeks it felt like the company was sending out press release after press release. While there has been a lot of focus on the Liga Privada extensions, one cigar has stood out for us and it is the smoke that’s being released for Joya de Nicaragua’s 50th Anniversary. That […]
Here at The Cigar Authority our reigning cigar of the year is the Aladino Toro. Earlier this year the company launched the Aladino Maduro at Two Guys Smoke Shop and a few select retailers around the country followed shortly after. This year at the 2018 IPCPR the company made the release available for the rest of the country. We caught up with Justo Eiroa who told us about Aladino Corojo Reserva which is also being […]
Day 3 of the trade show began without incident. The word on the trade show floor was the fire on day 2 started at the AJ Fernandez booth, but that has not been 100% confirmed. Over the course of the show the is one cigar that had a lot of buzz about it, but it was more about the price tag. We caught up with Sean Williams the brand ambassador for Cohiba where he told […]
Just before the 2017 IPCPR Trade Show Aging Room Cigars signed an agreement to have their cigars distributed by Altadis USA. In October, Rafael Nodal was named the head of product capability which put him in charge of the US Premium Division. It’s been easy to see the mark he has left on the company so far all while continuing to develop his own brand Aging Room. Today as Day 2 came to a close […]
Earlier today Rocky Patel was listed as one of the companies affected by the electrical fire at IPCPR. However by the looks of this video it doesn’t seem to be the case. Here we have Rocky Patel tell us about the ALR. As noted in the press release a few weeks ago, Rocky conceived the idea of ALR three years ago – before he even had the brand name – when he blended a cigar featuring […]