Asylum Serenity Now Insanity Later closeup glamour

Asylum Debuting Split Line Serenity Now / Insanity Later

March 18, 2024

CLE Cigar Company and its Asylum subsidiary have announced the Serenity Now / Insanity Later line, debuting later this week at the 2024 PCA trade show in Las Vegas. Similar to the Medulla Oblongata line of 2... Read More...

Gurkha Tyson 2.0 Undisputed cigar announcement

Gurkha Announces Mike Tyson Collaboration

Jordan Guttormson

March 14, 2024

Press Releases

Gurkha Cigar Group has announced the company's lineup of new releases to be unveiled at next month's PCA 2024 trade show, most notably including the launch of Tyson 2.0 Undisputed, a new collaboration with Mike... Read More...

PCA 2024

Jordan Guttormson

March 13, 2024

PCA, PCA 2024

Differing from every PCA/IPCPR trade show over the course of the last decade-plus, the timeframe of the 2024 gathering has moved from summer to spring. This marks the first in a series of updates to the event, ... Read More...

Alec Bradley Uru Doshi 2024 cigars sold out

Uru Doshi 2024 Now Available

Jordan Guttormson

February 29, 2024

Dojo Cigars, Press Releases

It's been four long years... but the Uru Doshi cigar has returned for Leap Day 2024! Uru Doshi was the first collaboration between Cigar Dojo and the Rubin brothers of Alec & Bradley Cigars, first debuti... Read More...

La Aurora Puro Vintage 2014 cigar box open

La Aurora Announces Latest Puro Vintage Edition

Jordan Guttormson

February 23, 2024

Press Releases

Announced one month ahead of the annual PCA trade show, La Aurora will be showcasing the latest edition of Puro Vintage, which has been hailed among the company's finest offerings since the line's debut in 2008... Read More...

Foundation Metapa Rebranded as AKSUM

Jordan Guttormson

February 20, 2024

Press Releases

Only a few short months after first shipping Metapa cigars to retailers, Foundation Cigar Co. has rebranded the cigars as AKSUM. Metapa was the company's headlining release for 2023 (going on the win Cigar D... Read More...

Flavor Odyssey Oveja Negra Brands pairings

Flavor Odyssey – Black Sheep Embrace

Jordan Guttormson

February 19, 2024

Flavor Odyssey

Will the real black sheep please stand up? This week on Flavor Odyssey, we continue our epic countdown through the Dojoverse all-time leaderboard, focusing our attention on Oveja Negra Brands. In 2019, James Br... Read More...

Alec Bradley Uru Doshi 2024 cigar glamour

Uru Doshi Returns for Leap Day 2024

Jordan Guttormson

February 14, 2024

Dojo Cigars, Press Releases

Four years after the original launch, Alec & Bradley Cigars have once again partnered with Cigar Dojo for the quadrennial return of Uru Doshi. First debuting on Feb. 29, 2020, Uru Doshi was named for the... Read More...

Drew Estate Undercrown 10 Ming 2024 cigar box

Drew Estate & Smoke Inn Announce Undercrown 10 Ming

Jordan Guttormson

January 26, 2024

Press Releases

The exclusive releases for Smoke Inn's The Great Smoke 2024 event have now been revealed, including the DTT-EX-153 from Dunbarton, the Brick House Dragon Fire from J.C. Newman, and the Undercrown 10 Ming from D... Read More...

Smoke Night LIVE – Smoke Stash or Trash with Cigar Coop

Jordan Guttormson

January 25, 2024

Smoke Night Live

Which of these three cigars do you smoke, stash, or trash? That is the burning question on this episode of Smoke Night LIVE. William "Cigar Coop" Cooper joins the show, and is put on the hot seat as we force hi... Read More...

Brand of the Year 2023 – Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust

Jordan Guttormson

January 12, 2024

News, COTY 2023

First debuting in 2015, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust was content with a single cigar offering (Sobremesa), allowing the line a full year in the limelight before being joined by the Mi Querida in 2016. It was a slo... Read More...

Person of the Year 2023 – Steve Saka

Jordan Guttormson

January 12, 2024

News, COTY 2023

They've called him Sakakhan, Papasaka, and Sakasquatch; he's known as the cigar guru for the craft cigar world; and the Nicaraguan's call him el gringo gruñón (or the grumpy gringo); it's the one and only Steve... Read More...

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