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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...
Warped to Debut Corto Maduro at PCA25
At this year's PCA25 trade show, Warped will release the new Corto Maduro. This cigar, presented as a box-pressed 4 1/2 x 46 vitola, was handcrafted at NACSA in Nicaragua. ...
Tatuaje to Debut New Fausto Sizes at PCA26
At this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show in New Orleans, Tatuaje will showcase new sizes of its Fausto brand. Tatuaje first introduced this brand in 2011...
Black Star Line Cigars Brings Meadowood MLK to PCA25
At the 2025 Premium Cigar Association (PCA25) trade show, Black Star Line Cigars will introduce a new core cigar line–Meadowood MLK. This new cigar honors Martin Luther King, Jr....
Valentino Siesto Cigars Announces 2025 PCA Exclusive Cigar
At April's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show, Valentino Siesto Cigars will release its first PCA Exclusive cigar, the Robusto Connecticut PCA Edition. Valentino Siesto's...
El Septimo’s Doble Gran Reserva to Debut at PCA25
El Septimo is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special release set to debut at this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show. The Doble Gran Reserva features...
Karen Berger’s Ixtelli Debuting at PCA25
At April's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show, Karen Berger Cigars will debut a new cigar line that features all Nicaraguan tobacco in the cigar's blend–Ixtelli, Ixtelli...
Eddy Guerra Joins La Flor Dominicana
La Flor Dominicana has named Eddy Guerra its new vice president of marketing and brand development. This comes after Guerra announced his departure from Davidoff of Geneva USA...
J.C. Newman Launches Tampa Smokers Cigars at Tampa Baseball Museum
On February 27, 2025, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. celebrated the launch of its new Tampa Smokers cigars with a sold-out event at the Tampa Baseball Museum. The event drew 150...
Natura Tobacco’s Fifth Anniversary and Altura Second Harvest Coming to PCA25
At this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show in New Orleans, Natura Tobacco & Cigar Company will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a special release. The...
Rocky Patel Premium Cigars: Always Innovating
What’s new at Rocky Patel? That’s a loaded question. Rocky Patel Premium Cigars has quite the reputation for rolling out several new lines of cigars each year, especially at the...
My Father Cigars: Upping Their Game, Once Again
This year is already shaping up to be another banner year for the Garcia family and My Father Cigars. The company will introduce three new items at the 2024 PCA Trade Show...
Something to Aspire To: Crowned Heads’s Jon Huber
It’s Monday, January 15, 2024, and Nashville just received its first snowfall of the season. This wasn’t just your typical snowstorm; it was more snow than Nashville reportedly...
Five Questions: Jim Young, Interim CEO/Board Member, Plasencia Cigars
Welcome back to the industry. What have you been doing since leaving Davidoff?My wife and I left Switzerland and returned to the U.S. in the spring of 2022. We have a home on...
Accessory Selling 101
Michael Giordano, CEO and founder of Quality Importers, shares his insightsfor retailers looking to increase accessory sales and humidors. PCA Magazine: What is one surefire way...
The No Cell Zone
I am expecting this article to be the most cathartic (for me) and most polarizing (for you) one I have penned to date. Hello, my name is Josh and I am addicted to my mobile...
Rocky Mountain Smoke: Ken Weinheimer and Rocky Mountain Liquor
Ken Weinheimer is a self-effacing and soft-spoken man. To converse with him you would never guess that he had created the largest walk-in cigar humidor in the state of Montana,...
Founders Cigars: Creating Community, American-style
Founders Cigar Company was established during the early days of the COVID pandemic when people everywhere were just trying to find their footing. Stores were closing, or limited...
Black Star Line Cigars: Blending Cigars, Culture and History
Aric Bey never considered becoming a firefighter. Despite his uncle serving in the Chicago Fire Department, and his father encouraging him to apply, Bey had other plans: “I was a...