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AG Cigars Launches the Legendary Moment Series, Honoring Jamie Foxx and Ray Lewis There is a short list of cigar makers in the world whose biography reads like a screenplay, and Alejandro "Alex" González Arias sits near the top of it. The Cuban-born master roller — better known in cigar circles si

Brotherhood in a Box: Hiram & Solomon Cigars Ships the Mystic Tie and Fraternal Flame There are boutique cigar brands, and then there are cigar brands with a genuine reason to exist. Hiram & Solomon falls squarely into the latter camp. Born out of a gap that two Freemason brothers noticed

Wildfire Cigar Company's Radio Octave Is the Most Intriguing Limited Release of Summer 2026 There is a particular kind of cigar company that operates on instinct — one that moves fast, thinks sideways, and treats every release as both an artistic statement and a business experiment. Wildfire Cigar

Principle Cigars Drops a New Corona Into the Martinique Lineup — and It's Already Sold Out There's a particular kind of credibility that comes with selling out your entire first production run before most of the cigar world even knows a new vitola exists. That's exactly where Darren Cioffi and Pri

Asia's Biggest Cigar Festival Just Went Global — And American Buyers Were There There is a city in East Java, Indonesia, that cigar men are starting to pay very close attention to. It sits about 600 kilometers east of Jakarta, tucked between volcanic highlands and the Indian Ocean, and its rich vo

Does Your Watch Movement Actually Matter? Let me paint you a picture. A few years back, I walked into a watch shop in downtown Chicago looking to replace the old Timex I'd worn for fifteen years. The salesman asked me one question: "Are you looking for quartz or mechanical?" I stared at him like h

Davidoff Year of the Horse Limited Edition 2026 Toro Especial: A Cigar Worth Saddling Up For There are limited editions, and then there are Davidoff Zodiac releases. The two categories exist in the same premium cigar market but operate on entirely different planes of ambition, craft, and spectacle

The Cohiba Talismán Is Going Permanent: What It Means for the World's Most Coveted Cigar Brand There are very few cigars in the modern era that have generated the kind of sustained hysteria the Cohiba Talismán did when it first appeared on the market. Lines outside London retailers, secondary mark

David vs. Goliath in a Cloud of Smoke: A Small Cigar Maker Takes On Altria for $8 Billion It is the kind of story that would feel implausible in a Hollywood script — a one-man premium cigar operation, rooted in a personal tribute to a tobacco-farming father, now locked in a federal legal battle ag

Craig Reynolds Brings Big-League Experience to Best Cigar Prices as New Advisor The premium cigar industry runs on institutional knowledge — the kind built over decades of navigating mergers, acquisitions, retail expansions, and the shifting tastes of millions of smokers. When someone with that de