It’s the sophomore year for Nick Melillo’s Foundation Cigar Company. Last year the company released El Gueguense, which isn’t a name that rolls off the tongue. This year, the company releases that cigar in a Maduro blend, but the cigar while still having El Gueguense on the band it receives the primary name, The Wise Man. The cigar features a Mexican San Andres wrapper with 3 different fillers from Nicaragua. Here Nick R. Agua tells […]
We caught up our friend Manuel Inoa at the Miami Cigar & Company / La Aurora booth at the 2017 IPCPR trade show. La Aurora released the Time Capsule series earlier this year and the cigar has been well received. At the show they were showcasing the La Aurora DNA cigar called ADN Dominicana. La Aurora which is the first cigar factory often states that tobacco is in their DNA, so what better way to […]
It’s Day 3 at the 2017 IPCPR in Las Vegas and we start the day over at the Crowned Heads booth. A few weeks ago on The Cigar Authority podcast we had Jon Huber on a guest where he alluded to a new cigar coming out with the letter F. It wasn’t hard to figure out that would be the Four Kicks Maduro. We caught up with the national sales manager, Miguel Schoedel who showcased […]
When you visit the CLE booth at the 2017 IPCPR you realize one thing instantly, it’s not only insane, it’s asylum. We caught up with Christian Eiroa who goes way back with the Garofalo family as you will find out when you watch the video. Christian’s passion for the Eiroa 20 Years Colorado is unheralded as he tells us about the cigar that has been his vision for a long time. On the Asylum side […]
Cigar companies have long been aging tobacco inside rum and bourbon barrels but this year Davidoff travels down a road that has been less traveled with the Winston Churchill Late Hour. The cigars see the Nicaraguan filler tobacco aged inside a speyside whiskey barrel for up to 6 months. The cigar will be available in three sizes; Robusto (5 x 50, MSRP $17.50), Toro (6 x 54, $19.10) and Churchill (7 x 48, $20.10) and […]
It seems lately a lot of cigar manufacturers are also getting into the coffee game. Such is the case with Ventura Cigar Company who makes Psyko Seven cigars. The company was on hand at the 2017 IPCPR where they were showcasing their 100% Arabica Coffee which is infused with tobacco. This is a first for us and we hope our ground crew brought back a sample of this for us to try. It’s available in […]
Just before the trade show, Colibri sent out a press release announcing the new Quasar cutter. It features two cutters in one. The V-Cut side cleanly cuts a wedge as deep as 7mm on a 60-ring for a full robust draw. The straight cut provides an equally crisp straight cut on cigars up to a 70-ring. Both sides will cut torpedoes with equal efficacy and ease. We stopped by the Colibri booth to check out this […]
It’s time to cut our cigars, and today’s cutting is brought to you by Perdomo Cigars… a familiar sound if you listen to The Cigar Authority podcast which can be heard every Saturday from 12noon – 2pm (eastern). There is no better friend in the cigar industry then Nick and Janine Perdomo and we caught up with Mr. Perdomo at the 2017 IPCPR in Las Vegas where he showed us something new. The 20th Anniversary […]
A week before the trade show Warped Cigars owner Kyle Gelis shared a pictured on Instagram of a couple of new cigars that the company was working on. One of those cigars was Black Honey. The cigar was originally released in 2015 to just 13 retailers but the cigar is now back for 2017. It’s hybrid of two lines from the company and it comes in bundles of 10 with a pricing of $16.50 per cigar. […]
Some of the highest rated cigars here at The Cigar Authority come from Nelson Alfonso’s Selected Tobacco which is distributed in the United States by United Cigar. In addition to launching new sizes of Atabey, the Limited Edition Byron was on hand at the 2017 IPCPR in Las Vegas. The extensions to the Byron brand are based around new packaging that places these exclusive cigars in packaging that lives up to their reputation. Nelson Alfonso […]