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Cigar News: Alec Bradley Ships Fine & Rare JRS10 = (86)
The first Limited Edition Fine & Rate was released seven years ago. Alan Rubin wanted to make “the most complex cigar the world has ever seen.” The goal was to use 10 different tobaccos in the same blend and has become an annual release. This years’ is the Fine & Rare JRS10 = (86), a 6 ½” X 56 Ring Gauge Parejo, which is actually the second time this blend has been released, it was also the 2015 release.
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Cigar News: Drew Estate Ships Florida Sun Grown Limited Edition Trunk Press Toro
Drew Estate announced today that the Florida Sun Grown FSG Limited Edition Trunk Press Toro was shipping to Drew Diplomat. The blend of this edition is different from the regular line of FSG cigars using a Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf wrapper, Mexican binder, with one full leaf of Florida Sun Grown Cuban Seed Corojo, along with fillers from Nicaragua and Honduras. The regular line uses a Brazilan Arapiraca Maduro wrapper Honduran Habano binder, and Florida Sun Grown & Nicaragua filler.
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Cigar News: Providencia Announces La Misión Lancero
La Misión translates to “The Mission” and makes the number of blends from the company five. La Misión tells the story of Providencia Cigars Founder Jim Faber’s “mission” to Honduras which started as a professional soccer player and turned into a mission to organize youth soccer camps to get boys and girls off the street in a gang littered environment.
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Cigar News: Cigars International Opens Store in Dallas
Cigars International has just opened a Super Store in the suburbs of Dallas-Fort Worth. This makes Cigars International’s fourth retail store and the first outside of Pennsylvania. The store was built in just six months and is located in a mixed-use development called Grandscape in The Colony.
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Cigar News: Michael’s Tobacco Gets PDR Exclusive
The Connecticut Valley Reserve is the flagship line from PDR cigars. Now Michael’s Tobacco is getting an exclusive vitola. The blend is the CVR Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro and comes in a 6×60 Double Perfecto
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Cigar News: Plasencia 1865 Names José Luis Plasencia Vice President
Tobacco distributor Plasencia 1865 has promoted José Luis Plasencia to Vice President. Based out of the Miami, Florida headquarters José Luis Plasencia will supervise the company’s distribution process and business operations as well as sales support. Plasencia 1865 is the distribution company designed to import and distribute all of the Plasencia Cigars product lines.
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Cigar News: Rocky Patel Adds Hamlet 25th Year Salomon
Rocky Patel Premium Cigars (RPPC) has announced a new vitola to its Hamlet 25th Year line, a Salomon size. The new vitola was shown off at this summer’s IPCPR trade show and will be shipping late October. Like the rest of the line, it was created by Cuban cigar blender and master roller, Hamlet Paredes.
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Cigar News: Davidoff Announces Florida Selection 2018 Limited Edition
Today, Davidoff Cigars announced a new limited edition cigar for the US, ‘Florida Selection 2018’. The cigar combines tobaccos from Florida with tobaccos from Ecuador, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.
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Cigar News: Joya de Nicaragua Releases Book Called “Cinco Decadas: The Rise of the Nicaraguan Cigar”
Joya de Nicaragua Cigars, the oldest cigar manufacturer in Nicaragua, is releasing a new book about how The book covers the history of tobacco from the very early days of the leaf, until today. The book covers JDN’s accomplishment of being first in Nicaragua, it’s success, crisis and resilience.
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Cigar News: Black Works Studio Ships Boondock Saint
Black Works Studio (BLK WKS) announced today that their latest version of BOONDOCK SAINT is...
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Cigar News: Christine Martinez de Castro Named Director of Marketing for Gurkha
Gurkha Cigars announced today that Christine Martinez de Castro will be the company’s Director of Marketing and Public Relations. She will report directly to the CEO Kaizad Hansotia and as a part of the executive team to plan, direct, supervise and coordinate all branding, advertising, public relations, social media and marketing campaigns for the company.
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Cigar News: Espinosa Cigars Announces Sombrero de Copa
Espinosa and Small Batch Cigar teamed up for an exclusive release: Sombrero de Copa. The cigar is also a collaboration with Reddit’s /r/cigars community. The name Sombrero de Copa (top hat) is a reference to /r/cigars’ selection of “Aficionado of the Month”.
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