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Meerapfel Launches Création Liberté 2024
Meerapfel Cigar has launched Création Liberté, a cigar created to help fund cigar rights movements around the world. This cigar is presented as a 6 x 50 Toro and will feature the...
Puro Sabor 2025 Registration Now Open
For several years, Nicaragua has been a top exporter of premium cigars into the U.S. With some of the premium cigar industry’s top brands based in Nicaragua, visiting the country...
PCA Shops and Lounges to Visit in Chicago During DNC
This week, the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Government Affairs team will be heading to Chicago with thousands of politicos, elected officials, and other advocacy groups for...
Davidoff of Geneva USA Exhibiting at PCA25 in New Orleans
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) is excited to welcome back Davidoff of Geneva USA as an exhibitor at its annual trade show. On August 13, 2024, Davidoff of Geneva USA...
Limited Release of Dissident Molotov 2024 Announced
Dissident Cigars, a boutique cigar brand owned by Cynn Coburn, has announced the limited release of Molotov 2024. This is a mild to medium-bodied cigar first released over two...
PCA Remembers Joel Sherman, Former Owner of Nat Sherman
Joel Sherman, longtime tobacconist and former CEO and owner of Nat Sherman, passed away on September 9, 2024, at the age of 85 after a long battle with Parkinson’s. Born on...
Aganorsa Leaf Tobacco Processing Facility Suffers Major Fire
A major fire ravaged a crucial tobacco processing facility owned by Aganorsa Leaf, one of Nicaragua’s premier tobacco growers, on September 4, 2024. The devastating blaze...
Maya Selva Announces VZ Danlí and Año de la Serpiente
Maya Selva Cigars has announced the upcoming release within the Villa Zamorano line, the VZ Danlí. Available as a 6 x 56 Toro and a 5 x 50 Robusto, the new VZ Danlí features a...
AJ Fernandez Brings The Goat to the U.S.
AJ Fernandez Cigar Company has begun distributing The Goat in the U.S. market. The Goat was originally an exclusive blend for Jeff Nasser’s cigar lounge in Haiti. The Goat gained...
JM Tobacco Adds Española Year of the Dragon to Core Line
JM Tobacco has announced that the Española Year of the Dragon cigars will become a permanent addition to JM Tobacco’s lineup under a new name. Previously released as a limited...
Wild Bill’s Celebrates 30th Anniversary with “Cars, Cigars, and Big Ash” Event
Get ready for an unforgettable weekend as Wild Bill’s Tobacco, Michigan’s largest tobacco retailer and the second largest in the United States, kicks off its 30th anniversary...
Scandinavian Tobacco Group Reveals Strong Second Quarter 2024 Performance
Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) has released a new report detailing its second quarter 2024 performance. Highlights of this new report include a 6.3% increase in net sales,...
La Aurora Releasing New Miniature Format Cigars in September
La Aurora is getting ready for cooler weather with the upcoming release of a small format cigar. The Dominican-based cigar maker has announced the upcoming release of the La...
Plasencia Teams Up with October London for Cigar Lounge Tour
Plasencia Cigars is teaming up with Billboard chart-topping R&B signer October London for what it is calling a national “Sip & Smoke” Cigar Lounge Series. London, a cigar...
Aganorsa Leaf’s Supreme Leaf Gets Exclusive International Vitolas
Aganorsa Leaf is releasing two new Supreme Leaf vitolas for the international market. These new vitolas feature the same blend of Aganrosa Leaf tobaccos grown in Nicaragua but...
Michael Frey: A Las Vegas Original
Michael Frey has been called the “cigar king” of Vegas, and he’s associated with some of the big cigar bars in Caesar’s Palace and other places. His various enterprises have...
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...