Cigar Industry News

Tampa has two-century-old traditions: Since 1885, Tampa has been known as “Cigar City.” Since 1904, pirates have been invading Tampa and throwing a large festival called Gasparilla. Today,... Read more

Just over one year after the formation of Ferio Tego, LLC and following the successful launches of the Ferio Tego flagship brand and the Ferio Tego Timeless Collection... Read more

United Cigars has been on an absolute tear lately with the announcement of their new United States distribution deal with Arnold Andre and the reveal of the Bandolero and David... Read more

Espinosa Premium Cigars is proud to announce that they have teamed up with restaurateur, Emmy Award-winning TV host and cigar smoker, Guy Fieri, to create his own line of premium... Read more

Brought to you by Drew Estate: The Rebirth of Cigars. This week on Spare Notes, we debut our new theme song snd intro courtesy of Jon Carney. Coop and Matt... Read more

German Engineered Cigars is proud to announce Raumzeit, their second standard blend and the first they developed jointly with master blender Claudio Sgroi. Raumzeit is German for spacetime. The Raumzeit... Read more

Four-time Grammy Winner Tomasito Cruz is pleased to announce the release of his Candela cigar brand. The acclaimed Cuban born musical artist hosted a release party at Empire Social Lounge... Read more

The return of the highly anticipated and highly coveted limited release Firecracker from United Cigars is here and 2022 will feature the Bandolero Firecracker from Selected Tobacco. In 2006, from... Read more

When Altria made the announcement that it would be shutting down Nat Sherman International, the cigar division, many people were sad to see such a long standing iconic brand disappear.... Read more

It is no secret that Smoke Inn is one of the biggest and most popular cigar shops in the United States. Owned and operated by Abe Dababneh and run by... Read more

In 2012, Arturo Fuente celebrated their 100th anniversary. Second generation Carlos Fuente Sr. and third generation Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr. celebrated this with some great releases that year. In addition,... Read more

This week we celebrate 2021 in our Year in Review episode. Jon Carney rejoins us to reminisce on the year and everything we all accomplished as well as the industry... Read more

Due to increased costs associated with the production and transportation of their products, All Saints CIgars will administer a cost adjustment across all brands and sizes of All Saints Cigars... Read more

Gurkha Cigar Group International management has announced that 2022 will bring no pricing increase across all core domestic lines, with the only exception of their sampler bags. “Although suppliers have... Read more

First of all congratulations to Drew Estate! They are the winners of Smokin Tabacco’s 2021 Cigar of the Year! What they have done with Undercrown 10 has been fun to... Read more

Perhaps one of my absolute favorite cigars of the year came from Micky Pegg, who is just getting back into the industry after taking a break. Micky was previously with... Read more

When I first smoked this cigar a few months ago when it landed, I knew right away it was going to be a huge contender for cigar of the year... Read more

Aganorsa Leaf has announced today the newest size of Supreme Leaf. One of the most exciting and sought-after cigars ever produced. Using the same blend of entirely Aganorsa Leaf tobaccos... Read more

J.C. Newman Cigar Co. proudly announces that Aimee Cooks has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager of its historic El Reloj cigar factory in Tampa, Florida. In this... Read more

Oveja Negra Brands has announced today that cigar industry marketing veterans, authors, motivational speakers and serial entrepreneurs Cynn & Joshua Coburn have officially taken ownership of the Dissident cigar brand.... Read more