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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...
Stoic Cigars Bringing “Stoic” to PCA25
At this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) trade show, Stoic Cigars is releasing its initial blend, Stoic. The first release from Stoic Cigars will be available in four...
Scandinavian Tobacco Group’s 2024 Report: Key Takeaways for Premium Cigar Retailers
Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) recently released its 2024 financial report, offering insights especially relevant for those in the premium cigar industry. In the report, STG...
ADVentura Captain’s Collection, Blue Eyed Jack’s Special Edition Announced
At this year's Premium Cigar Association trade show, ADVentura Cigars is unleashing a special collection of some of its major blends and a new edition of its Blue Eyed Jack's...
Chateau Diadem to make U.S. Debut at PCA25 Trade Show
Sinistro Cigars
Not everyone enters the cigar business via the same path. Some are born into storied cigar-making families. Others work their way in by starting as cigar store owners or...
A Connecticut Revival
Nicholas Melillo loves Connecticut. Love may not even be a strong enough word to describe the affection and passion he has for his home state. Connecticut, to Melillo, is not...
Like No Other: A Look Back at PCA23
A cigar docuseries premiere celebrating the industry, a triple-threat blending seminar, a mind-blowing mentalist show, a smashing kickoff party … and that was just the first day...
Scott Regina of Emerson’s Cigars, New PCA President
Virginia Tidewater-area tobacconist Scott Regina, CEO of Emerson’s Cigars, with five retail locations, is the model of a busy guy. But his life got even busier on 11 July 2023 at...
How, Really, Is the Pipe World Faring?
Not having been able to attend the Chicago Pipe Show this year, I asked around to see how it had gone, and also how pipe smoking was faring in general. Five well-connected...
Platinum Nova Cigars: Aiming for the Pinnacle of the Cigar Lifestyle
Platinum Nova Cigars has been crafting fine smokes for more than a decade, in its early years only for the private consumption of the family and friends of the company owners. It...
Plasencia 1865 Cigars: Putting the Soul into Cigar Manufacturing
Like so many families in the cigar industry, the Plasencias are no strangers to the challenges and occasional heartbreak of pursuing their love of working with tobacco. From...
Five Questions: Steve Saka, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
1. What’s got you excited about Dunbarton this year?Most folks would expect me to answer about this blend or that brand, but for me, it is who we are as a company overall. From...
Poker & Life
Doyle Brunson played professional poker for over 50 years. He was a two-time World Series of Poker main event champion, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, wrote several books on...