Press Releases

September 1, 2020

HVC is set to become the latest manufacturer to participate in the ongoing Firecracker series by Two Guys Smoke Shop, blending a tweaked version of the HVC Black Friday to fit the series' notoriously explosive ... Read More...

Cubariqueño Announces Protocol Cyber Crimes Unit

September 1, 2020

Following closely behind the Protocol Eliot Ness cigar announced in mid-August, Cubariqueño Cigar Co. has now revealed the Protocol Cyber Crimes Unit as their latest core-line release. With the company being... Read More...

Tobacco Plus Expo Announces New 2021 Show Dates

August 25, 2020

The Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) updated their website today reflecting new dates for the trade show that was scheduled for late January. The TPE website also says the show will be at the same place i.e., Las Vegas ... Read More...

Foundation El Güegüense 5 Year Aniversario cigars

Foundation to Celebrate 5th Anniversary with El Güegüense 5 Year Aniversario

August 20, 2020

Five years after launching Foundation Cigar Company and their inaugural El Güegüense brand, company owner, Nick Melillo, will be commemorating the milestone with a limited version of the blend that has been dub... Read More...

Judge Gives Cigar Industry Temporary Reprieve

August 19, 2020

The cigar industry received a temporary reprieve in one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome in the FDA's regulations for premium cigars: standard equivalence. Starting September 9th of this year, cigar co... Read More...

Moya Ruiz Cigars Unveils new Logo and Upcoming Releases

August 19, 2020

Moya Ruiz Cigars spilled the beans on last week's Dojo Happy Hour that they were not only releasing a box press version of the La Jugada Habano and Prieto but they are also bringing back the Chinese Finger Trap... Read More...

CIGARfest 2020 Officially Canceled

August 18, 2020

Cigars International announced today that the company has decided to cancel CIGARfest 2020, due to ongoing national and local restrictions surrounding COVID-19. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemi... Read More...

Protocol Cigars Announces Protocol Eliot Ness

August 17, 2020

Following in the footsteps of 2019's Protocol Sir Robert Peel release, Cubariqueño Cigar Company (parent company of Protocol Cigars) has revealed Protocol Eliot Ness as their next core-line addition. Protoco... Read More...

Pete Johnson Teases Tatuaje Karloff box design

Pete Johnson Teases Tatuaje The Karloff on Flavor Odyssey

August 6, 2020

On a special guest appearance for Cigar Dojo's A Flavor Odyssey show last night, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars teased the first appearance of the Tatuaje The Karloff dress box. The Tatuaje The Karloff is se... Read More...

ACE Prime and Crowned Heads Announce Luciano ‘The Dreamer’

August 6, 2020

ACE Prime and Crowned Heads have announced the release of a new Luciano Cigar line called: THE DREAMER. It is the second cigar in the line named after the owner and co-founder of Tabacalera Pichardo and Ace Pri... Read More...

Unboxing the Yagua by J.C. Newman

August 5, 2020