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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...
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...
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...
In the Family: Maryland’s Tobacco Leaf
Rahul Gupta didn’t intend to join the family business, one which his father began four decades earlier. His father never pushed him, emphasizing education and encouraging him to...
Breaking New Ground: Inside Villiger de Nicaragua
Quality and consistency—these are the two factors necessary for any successful product. When speaking about premium cigars, these two things are even more critical. Some of the...
The Boutique Cigar Association of America: Protecting The Legacy
When Dr. Gaby Kafie retired from practicing medicine in 2008, he set his sights on his other burning interest, the manufacturing of fine cigars. With roots in Honduras dating...