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JRE Readies Aladino 85 Aniversario Reserva for PCA25
At this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show, JRE will debut the new Aladino 85 Aniversario Reserva. This premium cigar, blended by Julio Eiroa, was originally...
Limited Edition Trinidad Espiritu Miami Releasing in April 2025
Altadis U.S.A. has a new limited-edition Trinidad Espiritu set to debut in April 2025. The Trinidad Espiritu Miami Edition was blended to capture Miami, Florida's energy and...
Rocky Patel’s Thirtieth Anniversary to Debut at PCA25
Rocky Patel is celebrating a milestone 30th anniversary in the premium cigar business with the upcoming release of the Rocky Patel Thirtieth Anniversary, a cigar that will make...
Crowned Heads’ Blood Medicine LE 2025 Returns in New Sizes
Crowned Heads is releasing three new sizes for this year's Blood Medicine Limited Edition 2025 cigar. First introduced in 2022 as an event-only cigar, Blood Medicine received a...
Aganorsa Leaf to Debut New JFR and Supreme Leaf Cigars at PCA25
Aganorsa Leaf has announced two new releases that will debut during this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show in New Orleans: the JFR 20th Anniversary and the...
S.T. Dupont and OpusX Collaboration Unveiling Planned for PCA25
At this year’s Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show, Coles of London will debut a new collaboration between S.T. Dupont and OpusX. The collaboration will be unveiled on...
Apostate Cigars Releasing The Eight Witnesses Collection at PCA25
At this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show, Apostate Cigars will release The Eight Witnesses, a collection of the company's eight blends. Each blend will be...
La Aurora USA and PCA Partner on PCA Alliance Exclusive
La Aurora USA and the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) have teamed up for a special limited-edition cigar. Small Batch Lot. No. 7 was crafted by master blender Manuel Inoa to...
Davidoff Readies 10th Anniversary AVO Syncro Nicaragua and Escurio
Davidoff Cigars has a collection of well-known premium cigar brands in its portfolio, and this year, the premium cigar manufacturer is celebrating the milestone anniversaries of...
H. Upmann by AJ Fernandez Heritage Finca Providencia Debuting at PCA25
Set to debut at April's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show, Altadis U.S.A. will release a new Nicaraguan puro–the H. Upmann by AJ Fernandez Heritage Finca Providencia....
Nodal and AJ Fernandez Team Up for Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Concerto
Altadis U.S.A. has announced the third release in its Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua lineup, the new Aging Room Quattro Nicaragua Concerto. This premium cigar is a collaboration...
La Aurora Preferidos Hors d’Age 2024 Releasing at PCA25
La Aurora USA will release the La Aurora Preferidos Hors d'Age 2024 at this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show in New Orleans. “From seed to cigar, the journey for...
Jeremy Fondi Named National Sales Director for Casa 1910
Casa 1910 has hired Jeremy Fondi as its new national sales director. Fondi has over 10 years of experience working within the premium cigar industry. Fondi is a certified...
Powstanie to Release Grand Perfecto 2025 War Bear at PCA25
Powstanie will introduce the new Grand Perfecto 2025 War Bear as a limited-production cigar at this year's 2025 Premium Cigar Association (PCA25) trade show in New Orleans. ...
Micallef Cigars Expands Color Series with New Micallef Purple
Micallef Cigars has expanded its Color Series by releasing the new Micallef Purple, a medium-bodied smoke offered at a great value. Micallef created the Color Series to give...
New PCA Member Benefits
Retirement, health, and recruitment plans offer added value to PCA membership During this year’s PCA Trade Show, the association announced three new benefit programs for PCA...
New PCA Board Members
Why did you run for election to the board, and what do you hope to accomplish during your tenure? Lissette Pérez-Carrillo E.P. CarrilloMiami, Florida “I feel I can offer the PCA...
PCA24 Show Recap
Beautiful skies and mild temperatures, with a little bit of wind and rain—not something we usually associate with the annual PCA trade show—but with the dates changed to March,...
The Procigar Experience
“Is this your first time?” That is the number one question I heard at this year’s Procigar Festival. Each year, the Dominican Cigar Manufacturers (PROCIGAR) organize a nearly...
First Annual Step Up Awards Announced
PCA’s first annual Step Up Awards were conferred by the PCA Government Affairs team during PCA 2024. The awards recognize retailers for their extraordinary advocacy...
El Septimo Cigars: Marrying Tradition with Innovation
The words El Septimo, translated from Spanish to English, mean “The Seventh.” When we consider what a freighted numeral 7 is, so imbued with mystery and meaning across cultures,...
A Wordsmith’s Fever Dream
Is anything real anymore? I remember years ago when I first started to worry that, in my own lifetime, Artificial Intelligence (AI) would actually replace working writers....
La Galera Cigars: Grounded In The Past, Looking Toward The Future
Veteran cigar maker Jochy Blanco’s Tabacalera Palma cigar factory is the hot new thing…after only 88 years! Actually, Blanco and his proprietary brand La Galera have been highly...
Telford’s Pipe & Cigar: Tobacco in Our Veins
There are tobacco places in this world that draw you in like the smells of freshly baked bread. The power of these places isn’t mythical or supernatural, aside from the ethereal...