Favilli (formerly Mombacho) and Fabien Ziegler have announced a new bundle of products called "Coffee & Cigars." As the name would suggest it comes with both coffee and cigars meant to be paired together. Ziegler spend 19 years with Drew Estate and departed form the company in 2019. He was quiet in the cigar industry until last month when the collaboration was announced.
"This was an enjoyable cigar for me. A little strong on the finish, but the start and middle parts were very memorable. On top of that, it can easily be enjoyed if time is short, and can safely be paired with coffee and tea, as well as with spiced sodas and most beers and spirits. Hopefully, more of these will find their way into my humidor." -Kevin A. (Kevin A.)
Elie Bleu has announced the Haute Couture Limited Edition Casa Cubana J-14 Jet cigar lighter with a Black IP surface. IP stands for Ion Plating and is a process that distributes ions onto a surface to bound to the source material, meaning plating won’t flake off or chip away like paint.
General Cigar has announced the return of the Evelio brand, made in the Dominican Republic and known for its pleasant...
Sangre Nueva translates from Spanish to “New Blood.” This is the cigar blended solely by Alec Cuevas, son of company President Luis Cuevas Jr. and grandson of Master Blender Luis Cuevas Sr. This new cigar will be shown off at the PCA trade show next week in Las Vegas.
E.P. Carrillo has announced the Pledge Lonsdale Limitada for PCA 2022. This new, limited vitola to the hightly rated Pledge line measures 6 1/2 x 43 and comes in boxes of 20. Each cigar has a retail price of $12.00. We rated the original Pledge a 91 in our blind tasting and made #21 on our Top 25 list that year.
ATL Cigar Co is making a few changes to their core lines ATL Magic, ATL Black and ATL Libertad to be shown off at the PCA Trade Show next week.
Tim Ozgener is returning to the cigar industry. He spent 16 years with CAO International, serving as President from 2006-2010, and was instrumental in taking the company from a start-up to a global brand. This is also the place where Crowned Heads founder Jon Huber got his start. For the past 12 years, Tim has served as Co-Founder and President/CEO of OZ Arts Nashville, a contemporary arts center in Nashville.
Altadis U.S.A. launched the Omar Ortez brand in 2006 and is a value-focused Nicaraguan tobacco brand. Now, the line is getting a Connecticut version: Omar Ortez Connecticuts. The Ortez Family has been well known name in the cultivation and blending of Nicaraguan tobacco for over 40 years.
German Engineered Cigars has announced a new line of cigars, and the fans of the brand will determine the size it comes in. The name of the new line is undisclosed but it falls under the AUTONOM series which was announced back in February. This is also one of the projects that the company is partnering with Claudio Sgroi on which was announced in September of last year.