Cigar Industry News

Gurkha TAA 2022 Shipping in July

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Gurkha Cigar Group International announces its 2022 TAA Exclusive Cigar will be shipping out this July. The cigar was originally introduced back in March at the annual TAA trade show.... Read more

Latitude Zero Adds Latitude Zero “Signature”

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Latitude Zero, a blend named to honor Ecuador’s tobacco growing regions, is expanding its lineup with a new expression called Latitude Zero Signature. Featuring premium, hand-selected tobaccos grown... Read more

Crowned Heads to Launch Le Pâtissier in Four New Sizes as Core Line

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Crowned Heads is excited to announce that it will debut the Le Pâtissier brand at PCA 2022 in Las Vegas. Le Pâtissier originally came onto the premium cigar scene as... Read more

Espinosa Announces Warhead VIII – Will Debut at PCA

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Espinosa Premium Cigars is proud to announce the release of our new 601 La Bomba Warhead VIII, the eighth installment of one our most successful limited year releases.... Read more

LFD to Showcase New Line Solis at PCA

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Litto Gomez Jr. was born into the cigar world. La Flor Dominicana had been founded 6 years before he first opened his eyes and 22 years later with... Read more

Foundation Cigars & Highclere Castle Announce Special Blend Commemorating the 100-year Discovery of King Tutankhamun

June 25, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Foundation Cigars crafted this rare blend to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere... Read more

Rock-A-Feller Cigars Announces Nicaragua Habano Lonsdale

June 23, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Rock-A-Feller Cigars announces the Nicaragua Habano Lonsdale, a new vitola added to the core line.This new vitola of the Nicaragua Habano Lonsdale will join the core line ofRock-A-Feller Cigars and... Read more

Diesel Launches Fifth “Sunday Gravy”

June 23, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
It’s a widely held belief that Italians wrote the book on eating and drinking. Food, libations and socializing are part of the culture and meals can stretch on for hours.... Read more

YAYA Cigars to Launch with United at PCA 2022 with Show Exclusive

June 23, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
The new YAYA premium cigar line from CigarZona will not only have its US launch at this year’s PCA (Premium Cigar Association) trade show in Las Vegas, NV... Read more

SOTL Global Movement Partners with Light “em Up

June 22, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
If you smoke at lounges or maybe spend a significant amount of time on social media sifting through cigar profiles and content, you are probably aware that cigars... Read more

Tobacco Plus Expo Becomes Total Product Expo

June 22, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Tobacco Media Group, the company who puts on the TPE show, announced earlier this month that the Tobacco Plus Expo will become the Total Product Expo for 2023. They will... Read more

Ferio Tego’s Elegancia & Generoso Return for 2022

June 22, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Ferio Tego’s flagship brand of premium cigars returns with the 2022 release of Elegancia and Generoso. Both 6″ x 50 toros, the two styles are offered in custom,... Read more

Michael Giannini Becomes Chief of Customer Engagement for Quality Importers

June 21, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Quality Importers Trading Company (QI) is proud to announce that Michael Giannini has joined its senior management team in the newly created position Chief of Customer Engagement. In... Read more

Drew Estate Expands Liga Privada 10 Aniversario Connecticut Criollo Distribution

June 20, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
For the first time in its history, Drew Estate’s Liga Privada 10 Aniversario Connecticut Criollo cigar will be regularly available as monthly allocation for qualifying Drew Diplomat Program... Read more

Limited Edition Macanudo Inspirado Coming in July

June 20, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
The second limited-edition blend of Macanudo Inspirado will be released in July. Called “Jamao” the new expression gets its name from a proprietary wrapper grown on a network... Read more

Hiram & Solomon Moves Production to PDR Cigars Factory

June 19, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Hiram and Solomon announced yesterday that they will be moving their cigar production to the esteemed PDR Cigars factory in Tamboril, Dominican Republic, led by Master Blender Abe Flores. In... Read more

Foundation Cigars Introduces Menelik 6 x 52 Toro

June 18, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
The Menelik, since its heralded release as an event-only cigar in 2016, has been anelusive brand within the Foundation Cigars portfolio. “I wanted to create a unique blend... Read more
FDA Updates

FDA Extends Flavored Cigar Comment Period

June 18, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Friday, the FDA announced that it would be extending the public comment period opening from 60 to 90 days ending on August 2nd. This week PCA joined industry allies in... Read more

PCA Joins European Cigar Manufacturers Association in Commenting on the European Commission’s Legislative Framework for Tobacco Control

June 18, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Today the Premium Cigar Association submitted a comment to the European Commission in reference to its “Framework for Tobacco Control” related to the 2040 Tobacco Free agenda. This... Read more

CAO Debuts BX3 Line

June 18, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
CAO has always had a rebellious streak (think MX2, CX2, LX2), and the brand’s maverick approach to blending is taking another leap forward through its latest expression: CAO... Read more