2022 will make the second year in a row that crowned heads will release a cigar exclusive to PCA Trade Show attendees. This years release is the Crowned Heads Sfumato in C Major. The inspiration behind it comes from a Renaissance art technique made popular by Leonardo da Vinci. Sfumato is a pictorial technique for softening the transition between colors, creating an image that has no lines or edges, producing a soft hazy effect. The word sfumato comes from the Italian language and is derived from fumo ("smoke").
CAO (General Cigar) has announced a new cigar line CAO BX3. This follows in the footsteps of cigars like MX2, CX2, and LX2 with the letters representing the type of tobacco used in the blend and the number representing the number of leaves used. In this case, BX3 refers to Brazilian tobacco times three.
Jake Wyatt Cigars is officially launching the Lancero Gourmet Collection at PCA 2022. The company has slowly building towards this release with the addition of the lancero vitola to their Lithium line in January and the Lancero sampler of the Gourmet Collection that came out in 2021. This announcement adds all those cigars as regular production cigars.
Crowned Heads has announced be showing off a regular production Le Pâtissier at the 2022 PCA Convention and Trade show in Las Vegas, July 9-12. Crowned Heads Le Pâtissier came out last year as a PCA exclusive measuring 6 1/2 x 44 and was a limited production. Now one year later, the cigar will be available to all in 4 new vitolas. The blend for Le Pâtissier is an offshoot of the Le Careme, but is quite different in flavor profile.
In June of 2021, Sinistro Cigars announced The Last Barbarian. It was first released as a pre-release cigar, with the regular production TBD. Now that time has been determined, next week at PCA 2022.
Dissident Cigars has announced a new Limited Edition cigar: Molotov. It will be shown off at the PCA Trade Show in a couple weeks for 2022 in Las Vegas.
Omar de Frias, owner at Fratello Cigars, has announced a new cigar to exclusive to PCA attendees. VICEVERSA is a celebration of the company's 9th-anniversary blend and will be shown off at the PCA trade show during the second week of July.
United Cigars has announced a new cigar debuting at PCA: YAYA. There will also be a PCA exclusive size, the Short Robusto. This will be the first time United Cigars has attended PCA since 2019, and will now have an even bigger booth. YAYA has technically been around since 2021 as a house blend for a United Cigars branded lounge owned by Carlos Guillermo.
the 100-year discovery of King Tutankhamun: Highclere Castle Senetjer. The tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle and famed archaeologist Howard Carter.
HVC Cigars has announced a new size in their 500th Anniversary line, a Salomon exclusive to attendees of the PCA trade show 2022. The company released the 500th anniversary in 2019 as a celebration of the city of Havana's 500th anniversary which was founded by the Spanish on November 16th, 1519.