Cigar News

Davidoff Buys Camacho

October 13, 2008

Excerpt from the Press Release (PDF File): As of October 1st, 2008, Camacho Cigars, based in Danli, Honduras and Miami, Florida will become a proud member of the Oettinger Davidoff Group based in Basel, Switzerland. Camacho Cigars is a key player in the U.S.A., the world’s largest Premium Cigar market where around half of the [...]

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CAO Announces ‘Rock n Rolled’ Event Tour

September 26, 2008

Typically I don’t publish too many press releases but I’m going to be attending the first one and will be sitting down with Jon Huber to talk about the tour. Cutting-Edge Cigar Maker Sets Out To Bring Rock n Roll Attitude to a Series of In-Store Cigar Events Nashville, September 23, 2008: CAO, one of [...]

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God of Fire Sampler & Lighter

September 5, 2008

I saw this in my email this week from Tinder Box. They are offering a God of Fire Sampler. $174.95 is a bit out of my price range, but you do get four hard to find cigars and very nice lighter.   God of Fire Sampler for $174.95 at Tinder Box God of Fire is [...]

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Negotiations with Tony Borhani Ended

September 3, 2008

This has to go down as one of the shortest press releases I’ve ever gotten. Miami, Fl, 1 September 2008…Rene Garcia, Managing Director and National Sales Manager of Miami Cigar & Company made it clear today that negotiations with Tony Borhani, concerning the future distribution of Borhani’s Bahia cigars, had been terminated. Miami Cigar & [...]

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Hurricane Gustav Punishes Pinar del Rio

September 2, 2008

Colin Ganley’s site, Cigar Research, has been keeping up with Gustav and its aftermath on the Pinar del Rio region of Cuba. Colin’s Article on Hurricane Gustav: Pinar del Rio’s most important crop, tobacco was not yet planted but the crop from last year was drying in barns. While some 500,000 bags of premium tobacco [...]

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Photos from 2008 IPCPR Trade Show

July 20, 2008

Here are all the photos I took from the IPCPR Trade Show. I’m still in the process of adding tags, titles and descriptions on Flickr, but they are at least posted.

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Final Wrap Up from the IPCPR

July 19, 2008

I got back home late yesterday and just finally got a chance to sit down at the computer to wrap up a few things. I don’t have too much news to add but I did find these things interesting. Miami Cigar Company will be introducing a cigar later this year or early next year for [...]

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IPCPR Trade Show Day Two and Three

July 17, 2008

Alright I’m not exactly sober so this could be a bit of a rambling mess. None of this is in order I’m writing it down as I think of it. Last track of how much I drank and smoked the past two days, I think my taste buds are long gone. It was cool to [...]

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IPCPR 2008 Trade Show Day 1 Wrap Up

July 15, 2008

Everyone is very busy with retailers on the first day so I didn’t get too much time with as many manufacturers as I’d hoped but here are a few notes and photos from the show and CAO’s Party. Jameson Cigars has reblended their Red Label and launched a new Black Label, both are really good. [...]

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La Tradicion Cubana Re-Launches Great Pyramid

June 27, 2008

Just got some details from Luis on the release of the Great Pyramid. I told Brian over at Stogie Review I’m going to make him smoke one of these. Tabacalera LTC S.A., a subsidiary of La Tradicion Cubana Inc., re-introduces “The Great Pyramid”.  First introduced in 2001 production was at a still after a devastating [...]

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