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COMPAÑIA HONDUREÑA DE TABACOS OPENS KUUTS, LLC DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN AMERICA
 COMPAÑIA HONDUREÑA DE TABACOS OPENS KUUTS, LLC DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN AMERICA MIAMI FL – Well-established throughout Europe and the rest of the world with a sales volume in excess of 2 million cigars per year, Compañia Hondureña de Tabacos brings its premium cigars stateside with the opening of Kuuts Distribution Center, a brand new, […]
Bill To Protect Premium Cigars Gets New Number (HR 792)
The Traditional Cigar Manufacturing & Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2013 is now H.R. 792 On December 21, 2012, the President’s Administration again noted its intent to bring cigars under the domain of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The threat is real. Between April 2010 and December 2012, the federal government told us […]
Cigar Rights of America Facilitates International Support Against FDA Regulation of Cigars
Cigar Rights of America Facilitates International Support Against FDA Regulation of Cigars Fairfax, VA – Cigar Rights of America announced this week a dramatic new measure in the effort to combat federal regulation of cigars. CRA has not just been working the halls of Congress since legislation was filed to protect cigars from […]
Alonso Menendez Robusto
The Alonso Menedez line of cigars is from the Dona Flor Cigars company from Brazil. Dona Flor has a rich history in the cigar industry and their cigars are now available in the US via Dona Flor USA. For more company information take a look at the review i did of the Dona Flor CC Bahia Blend […]
General Cigar Announces New Website
General Cigar Launches New Website The new General Cigar website, http://www.cigarworld.com/ has just gone live! While the name’s the same, the site has been completely redone. The folks at General Cigar spent almost a whole year developing it. Think of the new Cigar World as a digital cigar lounge. It’s got cool interactive features like […]
La Palina Cigars Announces Price Decrease
“Smoked Up” No.6
This year is really moving fast! Here it is, already into the second week of February. There has been crazy weather up north with snow storms and rain and tornadoes here down south. Between it being cold one day and warm the next, I did jot down a few notes on some of the cigars […]
Alec Bradley Maxx Brazil Corona
The Alec Bradley Maxx Brazil is a cigar that is only available at Cigar.com or CigarsInternational.com and is the same blend as the original Maxx line. But, instead of the Nicaraguan maduro wrapper and a Costa Rican binder, it has a Brazilian Habano wrapper and a Brazilian Mata Fina binder. I have had my fair share of […]
Ezra Zion Re-Branded as Jamais Vu
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Ezra Zion Cigar Company, recipients of multiple Cigar of the Year Awards for 2012, are re-branding their inaugural cigar release, INCEPTION. The name of the blend will be changed to JAMAIS VU. Chris Kelly explains, “After being cleared for use by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, we went into furious […]
“Smoked Up” No.5
This week has been really crazy for me. I got one of only two prereleased cigars from Elogio & Cresecent City Cigars and got a review of it up. It was a pretty good smoke! So I was stoked to have been one of two who got to review it first. Then, I had a […]
