The rumors began a few weeks ago when Rafael Nodal was featured at an evening with Romeo cigars during an event in Florida. Today, those rumors became true as the distribution for Boutique Blends/Aging Room will now be handled by the parent company of Romeo Y Julieta, Altadis USA. What we know so far is that this afternoon all the sales reps from Aging Room Cigars were let go, and that distribution along with sales will be handled by Altadis. The […]
Back in the day during the cigar boom when I was partners in a cigar store in Brooklyn, NY of our biggest selling cigars was Gispert. Over the years the cigar in my opinion became a shell of what it once was, a mild flavorful cigar. This year Altadis USA intensified the brand with the release of the Gispert Intenso. The cigar is being billed as a dark full-boded addition to the mild line. It […]
We all have our skeletons in the closet, and for me it is the first few cigars I smoked when I took up this hobby of mine that would eventually lead to a career that the FDA is trying to take away from me. The skeletons for me are the first two cigars I smoked on a regular basis, Macanudo Robust and Por Larranaga. Eventually I would make it over to the Padron 2000 Natural […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — H. Upmann has always helped celebrate the richest moments in life by hand‐selecting and incorporating choice tobaccos into its heritage line. This April, aficionados will be excited to see the next, limited‐edition release from the H. Upmann vault: Ingot TheBANKER Private Holding. The Upmann brothers’ dream and goal was to make exceptionally unique cigars. After production they would securely lock these cigars away in their vaults to be gifted to their […]
Yargüera H. Upmann An Altadis U.S.A. Exclusive Honduran Estate Tobacco FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Hybridization, innovation and passion are key ingredients in producing something special. Tucked between two mountains in Honduras sits a tobacco farm named Yargüera. From this farm, surrounded by history, comes a revelation from the earth called Yargüera. Yargüera is a new hybrid tobacco seed and will be leading the next wave of Honduran tobaccos and cigars for years to come. In […]
A few weeks ago on The Cigar Authority podcast we reported on a new trademark filed by the parent company of Altadis USA. This week some details emerged about Yueguera thanks to Cigar Insider. The name isn’t a new cigar, but rather a new proprietary Honduran tobacco that should appear in cigars in the first quarter of 2016. The tobacco is named after an estate in the Northeast part of Honduras which is mountainous. According to […]
Two cigars made it back to me from the show with some special care given to them. The first was an M80 prototype for 2016 that I won’t be reviewing. If you follow me on social media, you can see the cigar. The other is today’s review. Henry Clay is a brand of cigars that was named for the American politician Henry Clay who served three terms as the Speaker of the House of Representatives […]
My old stomping grounds in NYC was sold today to a firm with ties to Altadis and JR Cigars. The following is the email the Fakhir brothers sent to their customers. Dear Cigar Inn Customers, We wanted to share with you some important news about Cigar Inn. A subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco Group PLC, today has acquired The Cigar Inn stores and cigar lounges located at 1016 Second Avenue and 334 East 73rd Street. We […]
According to a published report in Cigar Insider that was shared by Rafael Nodal, owner of Boutique Blends the aforementioned company is collaborating with Altadis USA in the creation of Romeo by Romeo y Julieta Aging Room. According to the report, the experimental project will allowed Rafael Nodal to create his own interpretation of the brand, Romeo u Julieta. In order to achieved this taste he will be utilized the tobaccos of Jose “Jochy” Blanco. […]